The Emotional Maturity of Jesse Aaron in Bridge to Therabithia by Katherine Paterson
- DOI
- 10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.49How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- emotional maturity, bridge to terabithia, content analysi
- Abstract
The existence of children literature cannot be separated with character education. One way to promote children’s character is by using literature. Bridge to Terabithia is an appropriate children literature that may provide good character education. This study is an attempt to discuss the personality of Jesse Aarons, a fiction character in the novel Bridge to Terabithia. The aim of this study is to investigate the process of emotional maturity in Jesse’s personality for educational aims. It is a qualitative research. Content analysis technique is employed in this study. The researchers are the instrument of this study. The psychological theory from Kevin Everett Fitz Maurice’s - Six Level of Emotional Maturity in his book The Secret of Maturity: Or How Not to be Codependent (1989) and Self-Concept: The Enemy Within (1989) is used in this research. The finding reveals that Jesse encounters the entire of six levels of emotional maturity. Jesse is able to acknowledge his feeling (level 1), to tell honestly about his feeling (level 2), being open about his thought and feeling (level 3), he can ask for and receive nurturing from himself and others (level 4) also he is capable to realize his good abilities (level 5) as well as to learn a value from incident (level 6).
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Lu’luin Nihaayah AU - Ianatul Khoiriyah AU - Adam Anshori PY - 2019/06 DA - 2019/06 TI - The Emotional Maturity of Jesse Aaron in Bridge to Therabithia by Katherine Paterson BT - Proceedings of the UNNES International Conference on English Language Teaching, Literature, and Translation (ELTLT 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 245 EP - 248 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.49 DO - 10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.49 ID - Nihaayah2019/06 ER -