The Need To Reach A Better Life In Liz Murray's Breaking Night A Humanistic Psychological Approach

• Main Authors: Nugroho, Dhimas Wahyu (Author), , Dr. Phil. Dewi Candraningrum, M.Ed (Author), , Titis Setyabudi, S.S. M. Hum (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: 2015.
• Subjects: Thesis; NonPeerReviewed
• Online Access: Connect to this object online
• Notes: https://eprints.ums.ac.id/38135/1/PUBLICATION%20ARTICLE.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/38135/15/2.%20HALAMAN%20DEPAN.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/38135/4/2.%20CHAPTER%20I.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/38135/5/3.%20CHAPTER%20II.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/38135/6/4.%20CHAPTER%20III.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/38135/7/5.%20CHAPTER%20IV.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/38135/9/6.%20CHAPTER%20V.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/38135/10/7.%20BIBLIOGRAPHY.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/38135/12/8.%20APPENDIX.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/38135/14/SURAT%20PERNYATAAN.pdf
• Keywords: PR English literature

This Study is about The Need to Reach a Better Life in Liz Murray's Breaking Night (2010) directed by Liz Murray which is analyzed by using humanistic psychological approach. The objective of the research is to analyze the memoir based on humanistic psychological approach by Abraham Maslow. This research paper belongs to qualitative research. The data sources consist of primary data and secondary data sources. The primary data of the research is The Breaking Night memoir and the secondary data of the research are the other sources related to the analysis such as the author biographies, comments, website searching about Breaking Night memoir that support the analysis, books of literary theory of the object and issue. The method to analyze of this data is descriptive analysis. The researcher describes two conclusions in his research. The first, the author reveals that all of human beings have different needs and some motives why they have to do something. Like Liz Murray in the Breaking Night memoir, she also has some needs. She has to struggle to reach a better life. The second, based on humanistic psychological analysis, it can be concluded that in this memoir, the author illustrates the motivation underlying Liz Murray's needs. They are: physiological needs, safety in herself, love and belongingness needs, self-esteem needs, and self-actualization needs, or the needs for personal fulfillment.