PERJALANAN PENCARIAN JATI DIRI TOKOH KIM DALAM NOVEL KIM KARYA RUDYARD KIPLING

Abstract

This thesis entitle ‘Pencarian Jati Diri Tokoh Kim Dalam Novel Kim Karya Rudyard Kipling’ focuses on analyzing the identity of the main character. The main character is an adolescent boy, in which he is seeking to find, or create, an identity for himself. Kim defines his identity during his adventures with Teshoo Lama. When the story opens the influences on him have been almost exclusively Indian. His identity papers prove the identity that he is seeking to build, but his life among white man gives traumatic experience which he resists with all his might. He realises that his blood is a sahib, but at the end of the story he decides to be an Indian. The writer used library research method to collect various data, especially about which this thesis related to. The writer used structural approach to analyze setting, character, and conflict. Further more, the Psychological approach that the writer used, was to analyze the searching of Kim’s identity, as the main character. The result of analysis shows that Kim’s genital puberty in adolescent phase makes him asking his identity. In this phase, he faces many conflicts, whether internal or external conflict. The internal conflicts are caused by two separated sides in his mind, India and English. Although he resists an English status on him, he has been influenced by English character and becomes a mixture of India and English.