vi ABSTRACT
Adyangga, Pramardaniswara. (2015). Jodee Blanco’s Motivation Of Writing
Her Memoir Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story. Yogyakarta: English Education Study Program, Sanata Dharma University.
The study of this paper is to find and explain about Jodee Blanco’s motivations of writing her memoir Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s
Inspirational Story. The book is a memoir of Jodee Blanco’s past experience as a victim of bullying in her school ages and how she survived it. The book Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story is a memoir from
Jodee Blanco’s past. Memoir is like a novel but it contains of stories based on real events yet novels are only based on fictional imagination. Jodee Blanco is an activist of anti-bullying, she created a seminar called INJJA (It’s Not Just Joking Around!) and she has visited many schools in America.
In this paper writer decided to find and analyze the answer of these two problems: 1) How did Jodee Blanco build the motivation of writing her book? 2)
What are Jodee Blanco’s motivations of writing her book? In the discussion, the writer used biographical approach in order to find the relation between the motivations and the biography of the author. Through the biography the writer could identify what happened to Jodee Blanco in her past. The theories used are motivation theories by Harmer and McClelland and also the kinds of motivations theory by Schunk, Pintrich, and Meece.
The motivation theories by Harmer and McClelland are used by the writer to answer the first research question and the theory of kinds of motivation by Schunk, Pintrich, and Meece is used by the writer to answer the second research question. Both answers are analyzed by using biographical approach.
Based on the first research question the writer found that in the theory of motivation; to build a motivation a human needs a habit, an expectation, and a hunger to be the internal drive or push for a human to do something. In Jodee
Blanco’s case, her habit is her hobby to write, her expectation is a hope for people
to acknowledge her writings and read it, and her hunger is her desire for people to share her idea so bullying can be erased. Then from the second research question the writer found that there are one extrinsic motivation and two intrinsic motivations that drove Blanco to for writing her memoir. The extrinsic motivation was the bullying Blanco got in her past, made her the bullying victim. The first intrinsic motivation is the that Blanco wants to erase bullying because she was a victim of bullying, the second intrinsic motivation is that she has the desire to share her past stories to the readers so that her case of bullying will not happen again.
vii ABSTRAK
Adyangga, Pramardaniswara. (2015). Jodee Blanco’s Motivation Of Writing
Her Memoir Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story. Yogyakarta: English Education Study Program, Sanata Dharma University.
Studi dari makalah ini adalah untuk menemukan dan menjelaskan tentang motivasi Jodee Blanco dalam menulis memoarnya Please Stop Laughing At Me . .
. One Woman’s Inspirational Story. Buku ini adalah sebuah memoir dari pengalaman masa lalu Jodee Blanco sebagai korban bullying di usia sekolah dan bagaimana dia bertahan. Buku Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story adalah sebuah memoir dari masa lalu Jodee Blanco. Memoar adalah sebuah buku seperti novel yang mengandung cerita berdasarkan kejadian nyata sementara novel berdasarkan imajinasi fiksi. Jodee Blanco adalah seorang aktivis anti-bullying, dia menciptakan sebuah seminar yang disebut INJJA (It’s
Not Just Joking Around!) dan dia telah mengunjungi banyak sekolah di Amerika. Dalam tulisan ini penulis memutuskan untuk menemukan dan
menganalisis jawaban dari kedua pertanyaan: 1)Bagaimana Jodee Blanco membangun motivasi dalam menulis bukunya? 2)Apa saja motivasi Jodee Blanco dalam menulis bukunya? Dalam diskusi ini, penulis menggunakan pendekatan biografis untuk menemukan hubungan antara motivasi dan biografi pengarang. Melalui biografi penulis bias mengidentifikasi apa yang terjadi pada Jodee Blanco di masalalunya. Teori yang digunakan adalah teori motivasi oleh Harmer dan McClelland dan juga teori jenis motivasi oleh Schunk, Pintrich, dan Meece.
Pendekatan biografis serta teori-teori motivasi oleh Harmer dan McClelland digunakan oleh penulis untuk menjawab pertanyaan penelitian pertama dan teori jenis motivasi oleh Schunk, Pintrich, dan Meece digunakan oleh penulis untuk menjawab pertanyaan penelitian kedua.
Berdasarkan pertanyaan penelitian pertama penulis menemukan bahwa dalam teori motivasi; untuk membangun motivasi seorang manusia membutuhkan kebiasaan, harapan, dan rasa lapar untuk menjadi sebuah dorongan yang mendorong manusia untuk melakukan sesuatu. Dalam kasus Blanco, kebiasaannya adalah hobinya dalam menulis, harapannya adalah harapan agar orang-orang untuk mengakui tulisan-tulisannya dan membacanya, dan rasa laparnya adalah keinginannya agar orang-orang dapat berbagi cerita agar bullying dapat terhapus. Kemudian dari pertanyaan penelitian kedua penulis menemukan satu motivasi ekstrinsik dan dua motivasi intrinsik yang mendorong Blanco menulis memoarnya: bullying yang menjadikannya korban bullying di masa lalu adalah motivasi ekstrinsik Blanco. Motivasi intrinsic pertama adalah bahwa Blanco ingin menghapus bullying karena dia adalah korban bullying, motivasi intrinsic kedua adalah bahwa dia memiliki keinginan untuk berbagi cerita masa lalunya kepada pembaca agar kasus bullying tidak akan terjadi lagi.
Keywords: motivation, memoir, bullying, author
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JODEE BLANCO
’S MOTIVATION
OF WRITING
HER MEMOIR PLEASE STOP LAUGHING AT ME . . .
ONE WOMAN’S INSPIRATIONAL STORY
A SARJANA PENDIDIKAN FINAL PAPER
Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
to Obtain the Sarjana Pendidikan Degree in English Language Education
By
By Pramardaniswara Adyangga
Student Number: 101214028
ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGE AND ARTS EDUCATION
FACULTY OF TEACHERS TRAINING AND EDUCATION SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY
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STATEMENT OF WORK’S ORIGINALITY
I honestly declare this thesis, which I have written, does not contain the work or parts of the work of other people, except those cited in the quotations and the references, as a scientific paper should.
Yogyakarta, September 10, 2015 The Writer
Pramardaniswara Adyangga 101214028
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LEMBAR PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN PUBLIKASI KARYA ILMIAH UNTUK KEPENTINGAN AKADEMIS
Yang bertanda tangan di bawah ini, saya mahasiswa Universitas Sanata Dharma:
Nama : Pramardaniswara Adyangga Nomor Mahasiswa : 101214028
Demi pengembangan ilmu pengetahuan, saya memberikan kepada Perpustakaan Universitas Sanata Dharma karya ilmiah saya yang bejudul:
“JODEE BLANCO’S MOTIVATION OF WRITING
HER MEMOIR PLEASE STOP LAUGHING AT ME . . .
ONE WOMAN’S INSPIRATIONAL STORY”
Dengan demikian saya memberikan kepada Perpustakaan Universitas Sanata Dharma hak untuk menyimpan, mengalihkan dalam bentuk media lain, mengelolanya dalam bentuk pangkalan data, mendistribusikan secara terbatas, dan mempublikasikannya di Internet atau media lain untuk keperluan akademis tanpa perlu meminta ijin dari saya maupun memberikan royalty kepada saya selama tetap mencantumkan nama saya sebagai penulis.
Demikian pernyataan ini yang saya buat dengan sebenarnya.
Dibuat di Yogyakarta PadaTanggal: 10 September 2015
Yang menyatakan
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Adyangga, Pramardaniswara. (2015). Jodee Blanco’s Motivation Of Writing Her Memoir Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story. Yogyakarta: English Education Study Program, Sanata Dharma University.
The study of this paper is to find and explain about Jodee Blanco’s motivations of writing her memoir Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s
Inspirational Story. The book is a memoir of Jodee Blanco’s past experience as a victim of bullying in her school ages and how she survived it. The book Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story is a memoir from Jodee Blanco’s past. Memoir is like a novel but it contains of stories based on real events yet novels are only based on fictional imagination. Jodee Blanco is an activist of anti-bullying, she created a seminar called INJJA (It’s Not Just Joking Around!) and she has visited many schools in America.
In this paper writer decided to find and analyze the answer of these two problems: 1) How did Jodee Blanco build the motivation of writing her book? 2) What are Jodee Blanco’s motivations of writing her book? In the discussion, the writer used biographical approach in order to find the relation between the motivations and the biography of the author. Through the biography the writer could identify what happened to Jodee Blanco in her past. The theories used are motivation theories by Harmer and McClelland and also the kinds of motivations theory by Schunk, Pintrich, and Meece.
The motivation theories by Harmer and McClelland are used by the writer to answer the first research question and the theory of kinds of motivation by Schunk, Pintrich, and Meece is used by the writer to answer the second research question. Both answers are analyzed by using biographical approach.
Based on the first research question the writer found that in the theory of motivation; to build a motivation a human needs a habit, an expectation, and a hunger to be the internal drive or push for a human to do something. In Jodee Blanco’s case, her habit is her hobby to write, her expectation is a hope for people to acknowledge her writings and read it, and her hunger is her desire for people to share her idea so bullying can be erased. Then from the second research question the writer found that there are one extrinsic motivation and two intrinsic motivations that drove Blanco to for writing her memoir. The extrinsic motivation was the bullying Blanco got in her past, made her the bullying victim. The first intrinsic motivation is the that Blanco wants to erase bullying because she was a victim of bullying, the second intrinsic motivation is that she has the desire to share her past stories to the readers so that her case of bullying will not happen again.
Keywords: motivation, memoir, bullying, author
vii ABSTRAK
Adyangga, Pramardaniswara. (2015). Jodee Blanco’s Motivation Of Writing
Her Memoir Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story. Yogyakarta: English Education Study Program, Sanata Dharma University.
Studi dari makalah ini adalah untuk menemukan dan menjelaskan tentang motivasi Jodee Blanco dalam menulis memoarnya Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story. Buku ini adalah sebuah memoir dari pengalaman masa lalu Jodee Blanco sebagai korban bullying di usia sekolah dan bagaimana dia bertahan. Buku Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story adalah sebuah memoir dari masa lalu Jodee Blanco. Memoar adalah sebuah buku seperti novel yang mengandung cerita berdasarkan kejadian nyata sementara novel berdasarkan imajinasi fiksi. Jodee Blanco adalah seorang aktivis anti-bullying, dia menciptakan sebuah seminar yang disebut INJJA (It’s
Not Just Joking Around!) dan dia telah mengunjungi banyak sekolah di Amerika. Dalam tulisan ini penulis memutuskan untuk menemukan dan
menganalisis jawaban dari kedua pertanyaan: 1)Bagaimana Jodee Blanco membangun motivasi dalam menulis bukunya? 2)Apa saja motivasi Jodee Blanco dalam menulis bukunya? Dalam diskusi ini, penulis menggunakan pendekatan biografis untuk menemukan hubungan antara motivasi dan biografi pengarang. Melalui biografi penulis bias mengidentifikasi apa yang terjadi pada Jodee Blanco di masalalunya. Teori yang digunakan adalah teori motivasi oleh Harmer dan McClelland dan juga teori jenis motivasi oleh Schunk, Pintrich, dan Meece.
Pendekatan biografis serta teori-teori motivasi oleh Harmer dan McClelland digunakan oleh penulis untuk menjawab pertanyaan penelitian pertama dan teori jenis motivasi oleh Schunk, Pintrich, dan Meece digunakan oleh penulis untuk menjawab pertanyaan penelitian kedua.
Berdasarkan pertanyaan penelitian pertama penulis menemukan bahwa dalam teori motivasi; untuk membangun motivasi seorang manusia membutuhkan kebiasaan, harapan, dan rasa lapar untuk menjadi sebuah dorongan yang mendorong manusia untuk melakukan sesuatu. Dalam kasus Blanco, kebiasaannya adalah hobinya dalam menulis, harapannya adalah harapan agar orang-orang untuk mengakui tulisan-tulisannya dan membacanya, dan rasa laparnya adalah keinginannya agar orang-orang dapat berbagi cerita agar bullying dapat terhapus. Kemudian dari pertanyaan penelitian kedua penulis menemukan satu motivasi ekstrinsik dan dua motivasi intrinsik yang mendorong Blanco menulis memoarnya: bullying yang menjadikannya korban bullying di masa lalu adalah motivasi ekstrinsik Blanco. Motivasi intrinsic pertama adalah bahwa Blanco ingin menghapus bullying karena dia adalah korban bullying, motivasi intrinsic kedua adalah bahwa dia memiliki keinginan untuk berbagi cerita masa lalunya kepada pembaca agar kasus bullying tidak akan terjadi lagi.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The first of all, I would like to give my gratitude to Jesus Christ who had guided me until this point where I can finally finish my final paper. He had guided me and given me all the supports, the inspiration and all of the references. I’m grateful for His grace and His blessings.
The second, I’d like to thank my parents; my mother Girianti Aniswari
and my father F.X. Prayudi also my brother Pranadwibaswara Adisatya for the supports, the prayers, and of course the love they give for me so I can finish this paper quickly. I also would like to thank to all of my relatives for the support for me.
Third, I would like to thank Drs. Barli Bram, M.Ed., Ph.D for the guidance and the advice so I can finish this final paper. I also would like to thank Caecillia Tutyandari, M.Pd. for the advice and lectures that I can finish this paper quickly.
Fourth, my big gratitude is for Hedwigis Rosario for the books, the supports and the prayers. My thanks for my good friends Philip, Marion, Ryan, Bryan, Alfa, Sipit, Angga, Dewa, Adit, Veri, Puguh, and all of my good friends of PBI 2008-2014 who had given me a lot of encouragement and supports to finish this paper quickly.
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Table of Contents
Page
TITLE PAGE……… i
APPROVAL PAGE………. ii
STATEMENT OF WORK’S ORIGINALITY……… iv
PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN PUBLIKASI……… v
ABSTRACT………. vi
ABSTRAK………. vii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS………. viii
TABLE OF CONTENTS………. ix
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION……… 1
A. Background……… 1
B. Approach of the study ……….……….. 5
CHAPTER II. DISCUSSION………. 8
A. The author’s biography……… 8
B. Theoretical description……… 12
C. Summary of the book……….. 14
D. Jodee Blanco’s motivation of writing the book…….………. 16
CHAPTER III. CONSLUSION……….…. 20
REFERENCES………. 22
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
This paper investigates the motivations of Jodee Blanco of writing her book about bullying; Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational
Story. This chapter presents the background of the study, research problem, the
significance of the study, the objectives of the study, and the approach used in this study.
A.Background
Novel is a long story written in prose, using appropriate rhythms and sound patterns to create an oral art. In the middle ages, prose was written in formal Latin, the universal language of learning and religion. In the late medieval romances, prose had begun to enter continental literature. These stories about knights and their adventures were written in Romance languages spoken by their first readers. In the early renaissance, Italian Boccacio experimented with the common language in telling tales of current life. Such stories came to be called
novella or “new things”. Thus arose the English word novel (A Guide To The
Novel, 1965, p.89).
In another literature, there are also autobiography and memoir. The story almost the same as novels, but there are differences in the background of the story. Autobiography is written based on the author’s memory of his/her own
the other hands, a memoir is like an autobiography, but it is written with the original feelings and emotions of the writer.
As the world proliferated toward the twentieth century, so does the subject matter in the literature. The age which discovered biological evolution, also discovered a novelist (Zola) who would translate that knowledge into fiction. The depth psychology of Freud and others was attended by the corresponding psychological fiction of Dostoevski, Joyce, and D.H. Lawrence. Every new crisis of Western culture found its fictional mirror. Imperialism was reflected by Joseph Conrad, modern warfare by Stephen Crane and Mikhail Sholokhov, race friction by Alan Paton and William Faulkner. The modern novelist has had more subject matter to work with and a more complicated subject matter than ever before (A
Guide To The Novel, 1965, p.117).
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students who think that they have more influence in the society discriminate them who influence less in the society.
From the subject matter above, the writer wants to analyze the motivations of Blanco in writing her book about bullying Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story. The content of the book is about the memoir of Blanco’s personal experience in her daily life when she was still in her school days. When Blanco decided to write about the book, she never imagined that the book could become a New York Times best seller and it could become the trigger for Blanco to be an anti-bullying activist. Writer knows that the reason of Blanco of writing this book is that she was the victim of bullying, but the writer wants to analyze the motivations instead of the reason why Jodee Blanco wrote the book.
The writer himself was also a victim of bullying in his childhood until his teenager days. The writer was bullied for 10 years since the writer was 6 years old. The forms of bullying the writer got were physical and psychological, but psychological was the most often. This personal experience of the writer has become one of the reasons why the writer chose to do this study.
Based on the background of the study, writer divided the research question into two questions, which will become the subject to be analyzed deeper in this paper. The questions are 1) How did Jodee Blanco build the motivations of writing her book? 2) What were Jodee Blanco’s motivations of writing her book?
The study is to analyze the motive of Jodee Blanco as the writer of her book about her personal experience in defending herself against bullying. The study is limited to analyze what kind of motivations that drove Blanco to be able
to decide that she would write a book about her personal experience against bullying and Blanco’s purpose of writing her book.
The results of this study can be useful in improving the quality of educators in the education system nowadays. Educators like teachers, lecturers, tutors, or even parents can learn the knowledge found in the results of the paper’s
discussion and apply the knowledge in teaching their pupils how to adapt in the society. The discussion of Blanco’s motivations of writing her book includes the analysis of motivations and its variety, what cause the motivations to be existed, and the influence of the cause of motivations in Blanco’s life in the present, which can make the readers feel the experience of Blanco in the past when she was still struggling against bullying. The study is related to psychology and education rather than literature.
This study is valuable to be read for anyone, the study is not only for literature major, it emphasizes the psychology and education above literature. The study is valuable to they who work in education or psychology environment. From this study those who work in education environment can educate better in order to create better education environment for the students. They who work in psychology environment can also study some of the cases happened in education and how to handle them contextually. Readers can also share the information through other people so that the message of this study can be conveyed and can be applied in the society.
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applied in Psikologi Remaja, Psikologi Belajar dan Pembelajaran, and it can also be an example of a result study to be discussed in classes like Introduction of Literature, Prose, and Book Report.
The second benefit is for educators like teachers, tutors, lecturers, or even parents. This study is analyzing about motivations of someone who became a victim of bullying, for they who have education background will get knowledge of how to defend their pupils against bullying and how to act based on real incidents. For the educators like teachers, tutors or lecturers, it is important to get involved with the students who get bullied. Educators can give students what they need in defending themselves, but in the other side educators must take the action to make things better for the students; so the bullies could understand the negative effect caused by bullying, and the victim could feel safe.
The third benefit is for students, whether they are children or teenagers. Bullying is a serious matter for students, some can survive and tell the story, some are failing and there are a lot of suicide cases of students who cannot survive. Those students are oppressed, and choose the wrong way to end their problem. Through the result of this study, writer hopes that students who read this paper would find the way to defend themselves against bullying.
The fourth benefit is for readers. They who read this paper might find knowledge and inspiration for themselves, about bullying, about Blanco’s past in struggling to defend herself against bullying, about how a motivation can trigger Blanco in writing her book and inspire people.
B. Approach of the Study
This study is using biographical approach. In order to analyze the biography of Blanco, the writer used biographical approach. Rohrberger and Woods (1971:8) stated that biographical approach refers to the necessity for an appreciation of the ideas and personality of the author to an understanding of the literary object. They also stated that on the basis of the biographical approach, a work of art is a reflection of a personality, that in the esthetic experience the reader shares the authors’ consciousness, and that at least part of the readers’
response is to the author’s personality. Consequently, we attempt to learn and to
apply this knowledge in our attempt to understand the author’s writings. To interpret and understand the motivation, writer needs to know what causes the motivations to be existed in the first place through the biography and the experience from the writer of the book Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story, Jodee Blanco.
The first step to conduct this study is to read the novel Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story by Jodee Blanco. This
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The second step is to write some facts about the author of this book and additional information about this book. The writer finds that it is important to learn about the author’s biography; there the writer can learn more about the
author’s background, her life, and her experience in defending herself against
bullying. From the author’s experience writer hopes that the motivations of the author of Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story,
Jodee Blanco, will be revealed. The additional information about this book is also important, the motivation, or the writer can say Blanco’s main purpose which will be studied in this paper, has a result which is the book Please Stop Laughing At
Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story. The additional information of the book is to find how useful the book is to the world of education and literature.
The third step is to find any theories and approaches that can help writer with the study. The theory used in this paper is the theory of motivation, the kinds of motivation, and the theory of human motivation. The approach used in this paper is biographical approach. Biographical approach is being used in this paper in order to find the relation between the author’s biography in the past and the motivations she came up with in the first place in writing her book.
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CHAPTER II
DISCUSSION
The content of this chapter is about the discussion of the problem formulation that has been written in chapter 1. This chapter contents are the author’s biography, the summary of the book Please Stop Laughing At Me . . .
One Woman’s Inspirational Story, and the motivation she came up with of writing the book in the first place. The theories of motivation, human motivation, and kinds of motivation will be added as additional theory to support the study.
A. The Author’s Biography
The biography of Blanco’s past is very limited, it is restricted to the professional biography only. The general information writer had collected only limited to the year she was born and the city she was born. The other information is in her book Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story. Jodee Blanco was born in 1964 and lives in Chicago. Since fifth grade until her senior high school times in the past, she had always been avoided because she was different than others. She was more like an adult than a kid, she’d rather wrote poems than playing balls or gossiping in the tree house, and she would always help they who were oppressed, even if it meant that she had to face the anger of the bullies.
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Catholic school and it has special program for mentally challenged and disable students. Then she switched school to Morgan Hills Junior High School, at first it was nice, she got friends and she even invited to a party. But incidents happened and her friends start to humiliate her. The humiliation was only in a form of mocking and disturbance, but then it started to become violence. All of those humiliations made Blanco thought that the non-existence of love and compassion was not the worst feeling. The worst feeling was when she gave all the love and compassion, but others do not want those. Blanco was a good girl back then; she kept being nice and helped others. Yet, ironically her good intentions were rejected and she was getting bullied because she is a nice and caring person.
Because the personal information of Jodee Blanco is restricted, the writer decided to take the personal biography below from her book Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story.
Now, she is a survivor, an expert and an activist. Blanco is one of the country’s important voices on the subject of bullying. She is the author of The
New York Times bestselling, Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s
Inspirational Story. A journey of her past as the student outcast, the book inspired
a movement among bullying victims everywhere of all ages in middle and high schools, on college campuses, at the workplace, and at home, who fill auditoriums and gymnasiums coast to coast to hear Blanco speak on how they too can reclaim their dignity and their lives. Referred to by many as “the anti-bullying bible,” it is required reading in hundreds of middle and high schools and numerous universities and professional organizations throughout the country.
Blanco’s work as a survivor turned activist has been recognized by The
National Crime Prevention Council, The Department of Health & Human Services, the National Association of Youth Courts, Special Olympics, The FCCLA (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America), and hundreds of state and local entities from the PTA, regional law enforcement coalitions and suicide prevention organizations to school safety groups, mental health advocacy groups, and drug prevention programs.While Blanco’s unprecedented approach to shifting the social dynamic for bullying victims of all walks of life continues to make headlines worldwide, it is her dramatic success inside America’s schools that has established her as a singular force in the field, and enabled her to understand bullying in all its forms. Her compelling approach to adult bullying emanates from that rare place of understanding that only someone who deals with the issue at its core could grasp.
She has presented It’s NOT Just Joking Around!™, her acclaimed in-school anti-bullying program, with the audience of over five-hundred thousand students, teachers and parents nationwide and also The United States Department of Interior, The United States Department of Justice, The National Catholic Educational Association, The Illinois Association of School Boards and scores of local school districts, many of whom are adopting her initiatives as part of their core bullying prevention curriculum. It’s NOT Just Joking Around! also has
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Blanco has successfully intervened in many bullying related attempted suicides and acts of victim retaliation, ranging from desperate, lonely teens with “hit lists;” badly treated employees at the end of their rope wanting to “end it all,”
and burnt-out guidance counselors who can’t cope anymore; to grief-stricken parents unable to move on . These people open up to Blanco because they see in her a kindred spirit, someone who’s willing to crawl down inside the hole where
they’re trapped and guide them out the same way she did for herself.
The media also turned to Blanco frequently as an expert interview, including CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX, CNN, HLN, Newsweek, US News & World
Report, and her story has been featured on The CBS Evening News, the cover of
Teen Newsweek, USA Today, Parade Magazine, and she has bylined pieces for
CNN.COM, USAToday.com, and The Huffington Post, among many others. A tireless advocates for the shunned and forgotten, Blanco’s rare understanding of why kids abuse other kids and how that pattern can continue into adulthood, rearing its head at work, at home, in relationships and wreak havoc on virtually every aspect of one’s life, comes from a deep personal place. From fifth
grade through the end of high school, she was rejected and tormented by her peers simply for being different and knows first-hand the long-term consequences. As an adult, she decided to go public with her story because she was frustrated with society's misconceptions about bullying, misconceptions that were leading to the loss of lives. As Blanco says to audiences, “no one has the right to abuse you, not your classmates, friends, spouse, family, teachers, co-workers, boss, no one!
Standing up for yourself non-violently in the moment abuse occurs is your human right.”
Blanco has been helping the misunderstood, ostracized, and forgotten reclaim that right across America every day. Since the release of Please Stop
Laughing At Me . . ., she has committed her life to turning her pain into purpose.
Inspired by the thousands of letters and requests she receives for help, she travels around the country sharing her story of forgiveness and triumph. One of the most sought-after keynote/motivational speakers and seminar presenters, Blanco’s talks are redefining the scope of possibilities for curbing suffering in our schools, corporations,
and communities worldwide. Blanco’s work has been published in Japanese, Danish and
Arabic. Now she lives in Florida.
B. Theoretical Description 1. Motivation
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The motivation itself is divided into two. Harmer (2001:51) argues that extrinsic motivation is affected by any number of outside factors, such as the need to pass an exam, the hope of financial reward, or the possibility of future travel. In other hand, intrinsic motivation, come from within the individual. Thus, a person might be motivated by the enjoyment of the learning process itself or by a desire to make themselves feel better.
2. Kinds of Motivation
There are two kinds of motivation based on Schunk, Pintrich, and Meece (2002). The two kinds of motivation are intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation.
2.1. Intrinsic Motivation
Intrinsic motivation is a kind of behavior that is driven by internal rewards. In other words, the motivation to engage in a behavior arises from within the individual because it is intrinsically rewarding. Schunk, Pintrich, and Meece (2002) stated that intrinsic motivation refers to motivation to engage in an activity for its own sake. For example in education, students who are intrinsically motivated to work on task would find them enjoyable. The enjoyment of doing task itself is the reward, Intrinsic Motivation does not depend on another reward or other external constrains. When a student is doing a task, she/he is motivated to do her/his task because she/he is telling herself/himself to do the task by herself/himself, and she/he is enjoying doing it by herself/himself.
2.2 Extrinsic Motivation
Schunk, Pintrich, and Meece (2002) stated that extrinsic motivation is a negative motivation to engage in an activity as a means to an end. Individuals who are extrinsically motivated work on task because they believe that participation will result in desirable outcomes such as reward, praise, or avoidance of punishment. For example, people work for money. The work is not the main point why these people do the works; the main point is the money. Money is the reward.
C. Summary of the Book
The story begins when Blanco remembers her past as she considers if it is okay to go to the high school reunion or not. Blanco was in her car, talking to herself that she is a grown and successful woman now, her past cannot hurt her no more, but she is still being haunted by the old ghosts of her past. Then the flashbacks begin.
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first, but one of the cheerleaders did not accept her so she had to go. Finally she chose the seat where losers sat, in the front beside the driver.
When she was arrived at the school, she entered her class and was asked to do a speech in front of the class. She was so nervous and chose the wrong topic to be shared. She was doing speech about they who are oppressed by bullies. After she done with her speech, the class became quiet. Then she sat on her chair and found a paper, it was written by one of them who sit in the back seats. A sentence, so deep and heart-breaking was written there and that made Blanco thought that her junior high school times were going to be happened again.
Blanco’s elementary school was also a nightmare for her. She was in the
fifth grade. At first she was a popular girl with many friends until she befriended a mentally challenged student in her Catholic grade school; once word got out that she was hanging out with a “retard,” she herself became labeled a freak. At first
Blanco wanted to make some distance from her new friend, but internal guilt and external parental pressure led her back into the friendship and she lost some friends and was getting bullied by her former friends.
Things were going so well for Blanco that she had to switch schools. At first, Blanco got friends, and her friends were popular kids. Blanco’s days were so happy, until she ruined her friends’ party. The party made her feel uncomfortable to be there that she had to call her parents to pick her up. But then she told her parents about the party and her parents told her friend’s mother, which ruined the
party and it made her regain her outcast status so brutal that the class loser refused to talk to her. Her shoes were tossed into toilets; her clothes were stolen from her
locker and destroyed; and she was beaten after school. Blanco’s parents were convinced that the problem was hers and forced her into psychiatric treatment while teachers told her that she needed to work the problems out for herself.
As Blanco passed into senior high school, her life remained a living hell. A genetic deformity on her breasts made her an even greater target for the cruelest of predators: the popular girls. She was also hated by the teachers because she tried to correct her teachers’ word which led to a more living hell; her teacher left her and ignored her. Such mocking like giving out the names of “freak” and
“loser” were easy for her to handle. It had become worst; Blanco’s classmates would threaten to kill her and refused to even allow her in the cafeteria at lunch. One day they pushed her into traffic when she got off the school bus. The threats, taunts, and physical and mental abuse continued until Blanco’s last day of senior year, when she took a leap of faith and asked a classmate and former friend to sign her yearbook. Smiling, he wrote painful sentence with dirty words with a black marker and handed it back for her to read.
D. Jodee Blanco’s Motivation of Writing Her Book
To answer the first research question “How did Jodee Blanco build the motivation of writing her book?” the writer used McClleland’s theory of motivation and based on McClleland’s theory to build a motivation, a human
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answer of the first research question which is: a human needs to have habit to increase his/her motivation, expectation as hopes, and hunger to trigger all. Blanco’s habit is writing. She loves writing. It was stated in an interview that
writing has empowered her in every aspect of her life. It’s given her a place to vent and make sense of pain, it’s allowed her to turn her pain into purpose by helping others, and it’s provided a focus that gives her great joy. Her habit of writing helps her to build a motivation of writing a book. Expectation or hope can help building motivation. In Blanco’s case, she hoped that they who are the
victims would read her book and make it as an inspiration just to tell those victims that they are not alone and they can survive the bullying. The last, is hunger.
Hunger is the main trigger of the motivation. The reason why she is hungry is because bullying exists. Bullying is a common problem happened in teenagers’ days. Bullying is an unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged
children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. To be considered as bullying, the behavior must be aggressive and it includes an imbalance of power. Kids who bully use their power, in this case, such as physical strength, access to embarrassing information, or popularity, which are to control or harm others. In Blanco’s case, she always lost in popularity; her friends who are popular always
take benefits from her and use her, they even do violent acts to make her feel bad. This aggressive behavior caused her to be mentally ill and caused her to suffer traumatic disorder. Another aggressive behavior also included repetition. Repetition means that bullying behaviors happen more than once or have the
potential to happen more than once. In Blanco’s case, she was being bullied by the same people every day. This could be happened because it started from a certain group which was Blanco’s group at first. The bullying started after Blanco
denounced her group’s secret to their parents. The bullying happened almost every day.
Based on the summary of the book, the biographical approach used to relate the motivation with the biography in Blanco’s book, Harmer’s theory of
motivation, and Schunk, Pintrich, and Meece’s theory of Intrinsic and Extrinsic
Motivation, the writer found the answers of the second research question “What were Jodee Blanco’s motivations of writing her book?” and there are two
motivations that drove Blanco of writing her book.
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made her to tell the world that bullying is not a joke and it is a serious matter in a form of a book, with her true stories inside it.
The second motivation is that she wrote her book because the internal drive inside her wanted people, victims of bullying, parents, educators, and everyone who reads her book, to know and take the knowledge and make it an inspiration then they can share it to other people to minimize or even to erase bullying. The motivation she had was also an Intrinsic Motivation. There is no Extrinsic Motivation in Blanco’s motivation of writing her book. Extrinsic
Motivation is a negative motivation. In the theoretical description it is explained that Extrinsic Motivation is a negative motivation to engage in an activity as a means to an end, individuals who are extrinsically motivated work on task because they believe that participation will result in desirable outcomes such as reward, praise, or avoidance of punishment. In Blanco’s case, there is no Extrinsic Motivation because Blanco asked for a reward, which is a demand from her, and it is intrinsically rewarding. Blanco wanted that they who are the victims of bullying, or even the parents or friends of the victims, to read her book and make it as an inspiration and then he also asked for the readers to recommend her book to other people. The outcome is to tell the bullying victims in the present time that they are not alone and they can survive the bullying.
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CHAPTER III
CONCLUSION
This is the last chapter of the study. The content of this chapter is about overall conclusions of the discussion. In the chapter two, from the discussion, the research questions have been answered. From her childhood, it is written in her book that she loves writing poems than playing balls, she is an actress in a theatrical play, and she also loves to write speech and monologues. From the book writer also found the fact that she is a timid person. Blanco always describes herself as a girl who is different than the others, she has good behavior. Sadly, the behavior made her to be rejected in her society. Her love to write has become a habit for her. This habit is one of the factors for her to be motivated of writing her book. She also has expectations for them who read her book. Blanco expected they who have read the book would feel inspired by her story. This expectation is building a motivation inside her to write the book. She also has the want or the hunger. She wants people to read the book and experience her stories through the book so other people can feel how it is to live in a society full of bullying. The hunger built and increased her motivation.
The conclusion of the study Jodee Blanco’s motivation of writing her
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from herself (intrinsic motivation) and the bullying itself also became an external drive for her (extrinsic motivation) that the stories of her past in surviving against bullying need to be shared in a form of a book; a memoir. This book has a socio-educative value, the stories in Blanco’s past make the readers who read the book
understand that bullying has to be erased for a better education in the future. The book also has a preventive value, the ones who read the book will be able to prevent bullying from happening by sharing Blanco’s ideas that bullying has to be
erased to other people. Her life in the childhood was not happy, she was tormented and she lost her childhood. By reading the book, the writer experienced how terrible and sad Blanco’s past is. She lived with her mother and grandparents,
her father often to be away from home. The bullies started to bully her in the fifth grade because of her kindness in befriending with a mentally challenged child. The bullying was repeated until she switched school. In junior high school, she has friends at first, but because of her kindness and her conscience she was getting bullied again. Then in the senior high school the bullying continued. These experiences had become a motivation for her to write her book and this book continues to inspire people until today.
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APPENDICES
The cover of the original book Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s
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The translated version of the book Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s
Inspirational Story by Jodee Blanco in Bahasa Indonesia.
