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1 Bulan Januari Tahun 2019 The Potrayal of Rachel in Fulfilling Her Love and Belonging Needs in The Girl on The Trains Novel Nina Farlina Faculty of Adab and Humanities Syarif Hidayatullah State University Jakarta Nadiah Khaleda Faculty of Adab and Humanities Syarif Hidayatullah State University Jakarta Abstraks Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui gambaran Rachel Watson sebagai tokoh utama dalam novel The Girl on The Train dalam memenuhi kebutuhan kasih sayangnya dengan menaiki kereta api setiap hari dan bagaimana Rachel menurut teori Hierarchy of Human Need.
Abraham Maslow.
Dengan metode kualitatif dan teknik analisis deskriptif, penelitian ini menemukan bahwa Rachel Watson sebagai tokoh utama memiliki beberapa karakter yang nampak seperti imaginatif, pemabuk dan pembohong.
Karakter tersebut membuat Rachel memenuhi kebutuhan rasa aman tersebut dengan membunuh mantan suaminya, akan tetapi sebelumnya Rachel ingin memenuhi kebutuhan rasa kasih sayang dengan mencari perhatian dari mantan suaminya.
Tom watson dan Scott Hipwell dengan menaiki kereta api setiap hari.
Namun.
Rachel gagal mendapatkan rasa kasih sayang dari Tom dan Scott.
Rachel justru menyadari bahwa rasa kasih sayang tersebut didapat dari sahabatnya.
Cathy, yang merupakan tingkatan kebutuhan yang ketiga AuLove and Belonging NeedsAy.
Kata Kunci : Abraham Maslow.
Potrait character.
Love and Belonging Needs.
The Girl on Train.
Novel ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract The aim of the research is to understand Rachel Watson as the main character in The Girl on the Train novel is trying to fulfill her love and belonging needs by riding the train every day.
This research is using qualitative method and descriptive analysis to analyze the love and belonging needs of the main character.
Abraham Maslow Theory AuHierarchy of NeedsAy.
The result of this research is Rachel Watson as the main character has some noticeable characters such as imaginative, alcoholic, and liar.
Those character make Rachel killing her ex-husband.
However, she fulfills her love and belonging needs by trying to seek attention from her ex-husband.
Tom Watson and from her friend.
Scott Hipwell before by riding the train everyday.
Finally.
Rachel realizes that she failed to get her love and belonging needs from her ex-husband and her friend.
She get love from her friend.
Cathy.
It means that Rachel successfully satisfies her needs until the third stage of the hierarchy: love and belonging needs.
Keywords : Abraham Maslow.
Potrait.
Love and Belonging Needs.
The Girl on The Train Novel
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Nina Farlina.
Nadiah Khaleda :
The Potrayal of Rachel in Fulfilling Her Love and Belonging Needs in The Girl on The Trains Novel Introduction Every human wants to fulfill the Hierarchy of Needs in their life The term Need is a term that used to describe a situation when a person experiences a deficiency of a particular thing.
There are many definition of a term Need, firstly, is according to Henry Murray said that a need is Aua state of tension within a personAy (Larsen, 2.
Need also can be defined as Aua lack of something that is required for survivalAy or Aua motivational state resulting from the lack of something that an organism requires or desires, also called a drive .
Ay In other definition, need is a state in which a person is in a deficiency of something required or wanted.
A certain thing that a person wants and an action that a person does is organized by his or her needs.
For example, a person who needs love may try to give orders to other people around him or her in daily Another example is a person who works hard and often sacrifices in something he does, may have a need to achieve successful (Larsen, 2.
MurrayAos opinion when a need is fulfilled or satisfied, the tension will be Thus.
The process of reducing tension is satisfying for a person .
Beside fulfilling a need, a person also have a motivation on their life.
The Definition of motives according to Larsen are Auinternal states that arouse and direct behavior toward specific objects or goals .
Ay Motives are also based on needs which caused by a deficit or a lack of something.
Larsen also said that Audeficits lead to a need, which leads to a motive to satisfy that need, either in reality, by fostering specific actions, or in fantasy, by creating thoughts that are satisfying .
Ay In other words, a need can be fulfilled either by doing certain action or thinking about something satisfying, for example, a person who have not eaten anything today has a need for food and a motive of hunger.
To satisfy the hunger, the person can either do something to get a food or only thinking about food.
Abraham Maslow is one of the psychologists who develops the theory of motivations and needs.
He is a part of the humanistic psychology theorist and a person behind the hierarchy of needs Humanistic perspective focuses on a personAos personal growth, positive human qualities, and freedom to choose a personAos destiny (Santrock, 2.
determines the needs by their goals.
The basic needs.
food, water, and air are placed on the lower hierarchy and the highest need or self-actualization is on the top.
the greatest human potential in ItAos like a pyramid hierarchy of human needs.
Larsen .
also said that The MaslowAos hierarchy from the bottom to the top are physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging needs, esteem needs and the last is selfactualization that will be explained in the next chapter.
The purpose of making this hierarchy is to focus on optimizing a personAos strength and to be a selfactualized person (Setiawan, 2.
The issue about human needs and how human fulfill his needs often appear in the novels.
One of them is the Novel The Girl on The Train by Paula Hawkin.
It was published by Riverhead Books in Hawkins is a British author who once worked as a journalist at The Times for London.
She also wrote a romantic comedy book AuConfessions of a Reluctant RecessionistaAy under her pen name.
Amy Silver but it did not succeed.
She decided to write in her own way with dark character and criminal issues (Rustin, 2.
Taken from the Penguin Random House Canada website.
The Girl on the Train was the #1 Globe and Mail Bestseller.
A New York Times Top Book of 2015 and A Publishers Weekly Best Book of The Year.
The major motion picture version of this book Buletin Al-Turas Mimbar Sejarah.
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The Girl on the The Train is about Rachel Watson, as the main character, a 32-year-old woman who experiences a failed marriage with her ex-husband.
Tom Watson.
The inability of Rachel to be pregnant and also TomAos affair with Anna were the reason of their Because of that, she became an alcoholic to cope with her stress and Rachel still remember their marriage with Tom.
It can be seen when she rides the train every day from Ashbury to Euston only to take a look at her old house from the train window.
However, when the train stops at a signal at Witney, she sees a happy couple that she named Jason and Jess who live a few houses away from TomAos Jason and Jess are TomAos neighbor who moved there two years ago after Rachel left the house.
She always imagines Jason and Jess life such as their job, what they are doing at home, and their family.
One day.
Rachel sees Jess kissing another man in her house.
Later, she read in the news that there is a woman missing from the news and turns out it is Jess that she sees every day.
Rachel tries to help looking for Megan because she holds important information about Jess.
RachelAos unsatisfied safety needs and love and belonging needs makes her trying to get involved in MeganAos case.
From the story above, the writer concludes that Rachel is trying to fulfill her unsatisfied needs, getting love and belonging needs again by riding the train every day.
Before the divorce, her safety and love and belongingness are satisfied.
But after the divorce, she lost both her safety needs and love and belonging This is caused by RachelAos opinion that thinks Tom is not only her lover but also her protector in her life.
Therefore, the writer wants to analyze Rachel Watson as the main character in The Girl on the Train novel on how she fulfill her lost needs particularly the love and belonging needs using the hierarchy of needs theory by Abraham Maslow.
Before that, the writer analizes the character of Rachel using Diyanni .
understand RachelAos character by reading the characterAos description given by the author, physical appearance, the characterAos actions, and the characterAos In the writerAos believes that, hierarchy of human needs theory can explain human behavior particularly Rachel Watson as the main character of the novel.
As a result.
RachelAos behavior throughout the story can be understood using this theory.
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