Proceedings of the UNNES International Conference on English Language Teaching, Literature, and Translation (ELTLT 2018)

The Emotional Maturity of Jesse Aaron in Bridge to Therabithia by Katherine Paterson

Authors
Lu’luin Nihaayah, Ianatul Khoiriyah, Adam Anshori
Corresponding Author
Lu’luin Nihaayah
Available Online June 2019.
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the UNNES International Conference on English Language Teaching, Literature, and Translation (ELTLT 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
June 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-745-4
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.49How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 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/).

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