Positive Self-Concept In Liz Murray's Breaking Night (2010):A Humanistic Psychological Approach

• Main Authors: Dyactowo, Bryan Yusuf (Author), , Dr. M. Thoyibi, M.S (Author), , Titis Setyabudi, S.S. M. Hum (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: 2014.
• Subjects: Thesis; NonPeerReviewed
• Online Access: Connect to this object online
• Notes: https://eprints.ums.ac.id/30556/1/FRONT_PAGE.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/30556/2/CHAPTER_I.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/30556/3/CHAPTER_II.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/30556/10/CHAPTER_III.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/30556/11/CHAPTER_IV.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/30556/15/CHAPTER_V.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/30556/16/BIBLIOGRAPHY.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/30556/17/APPENDIX.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/30556/18/PUBLICATION_ARTICLES.pdf
• Keywords: PN Literature (General)

This Study is about Positive Self-Concept in Liz Murray's Breaking Night (2010) directed by Liz Murray which is analyzed by using humanistic psychological approach. The objectives of the research is to analyze the memoir based on the structural analysis of the memoir and based on humanistic psychological approach by Carl Rogers. This research paper belongs to qualitative research. Data of the research are divided into two, primary data and secondary data. The primary data of the research is The Breaking Night memoir by author Liz Murray in 2010. While secondary data of the research are other materials taken from some books, author biographies, comments, website searching about Breaking Night Memoir that support the analysis. The method to analyze of this data is descriptive analysis. The researcher describes two conclusions in his research. The first, based on structural analysis it shows that Liz Murray successfully combining all the structural elements of the story including character and characterization, setting, plot, point of view, theme as well into unity. The second, based on humanistic psychological analysis it shows that in the Breaking Night memoir Liz Murray illustrates psychological phenomena in which in individual is someone who wants to build positive self-concept in herself with always does positive things, thinks positive and has self confidence in living life.