PROTAGONIST’S OPTIMISM VALUES IN RACHAEL LIPPINCOTT’S NOVEL FIVE FEET APART

Abstract

ABSTRACT The title of this study is “Protagonist’s Optimism Values In Rachael Lippincott’s Novel Five Feet Apart“. The goal is to analyze the main characters using qualitative data. The researchers carefully investigate is Stella Grant's behavior that contains the optimism values in Novel Five feet Apart. Stella Grant is an optimistic and always does all treatment in the hospital. She does not want to make her parents sad because they lose her if she die. However, then she meets Will Newman, a pessimist who encourages Stella to think realistically. After her best friend die, she realize that she is too hard on herself. The writer used Snyder’s in Goleman’s book. Optimism values having expectations to recovery, not easy to give up, able to be self-motivated, high self-confidence, not easy to surrender. The result, shows that there are five values in the data namely: Six data of having expectations to recovery, five data of not easy to give up, five data of able to be self-motivated, six data of high self-confidence, four data of not easy to surrender. The most optimism values of the main character are having expectations to recovery and high self confidence behavior. Keywords: optimism value, having expectation, not easy to give up, able to self motivated, high self confidence, not easy to surrender