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1.2        Problem Identication

            After read and understand the flow of the story in this novel, the author found interesting things about the inner conflict experienced by Haven Travis, who is the main character of the novel Blue-Eyed Devil. Conflict between personal feelings and her desire not to disappoint her father.

         Her father worried Haven will be divorce for the second time. So, he became more selective when Haven told she will marry with Hardy Cates. Her father worried Haven would divorced for the second time. So, he became more selective when Haven told she will marry with Hardy Cates. Especially after he knew that Hardy Cates is his business rival.

 

 

1.3          Purpose 

               The author's purpose take a theme of inner conflict because the author interested to analyze Haven's inner conflict in this novel, Blue-Eyed Devil. Besides, the author also curious how Haven way to resolve her inner conflict and how the ending of the Haven-Hardy love story. The author also wants the reader to understand what is meant by inner conflicts contained in this novel.

BLUE-EYED DEVIL's inner conflict...

THE INNER CONFLICT  OF MAIN CAST IN BLUE-EYES DEVIL NOVEL

Problems of human life doesn't escape from the conflict, both of personal factors arising from themselves as well as the factors that come from outside themselves. Conflicts that occured in human called inner conflict. Inner conflict that lasted continuously can have an impact on the changing the human experience characteristic and attitude. Our inner conflicts often encountered in literature. Literary work is one of the media used to express human feelings in verbal and written form. This was disclosed by Aristoteles who said that the soul in an element of life for humans. This inner conflict is also often associated with the science of psychology.

The existence of a character in a fiction has an important role in conveying the message to the reader's story. A fiction has characters with characteristics and different disposition. The emergence of leaders with a story of the journey of life, may indirectly affect the psychological state of the  characters or actors other stories. Mental condition in which the character, may change depending on the situation at hand. Basically the psychology literature gives attention to the problems associated with psychiatric elements of fictional characters contained in the literature.

The Blue-Eyed Devil is a novel by an American beatiful writer, Lisa Kleypas who was born in 1964  in Texas. After graduating from Wellesley College with a political science degree, Lisa published her first novel at age twenty-one. And her books are published in fourteen languages and also  bestseller all over the world. Lisa writes for  St. Martins Press too. In 1985, she ever competed in the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City. She also known as Miss Massachusetts because she get a challenged to wears an excess length banner into her swimsuits, so she got a nickname as "Miss Massachu". Besides,  at  the competition in Atlantic City, Lisa won a 'talented non finalist' award because she can singing an original composition. 

In 1998 Lisa had getting married with Gregory and having  the  most  wonderful  little  boy and girl  in the world. That same year, her novel, "Stranger In My Arms" was given the Waldenbooks Award for greatest sales  growth. The following year, because her novel, "Someone To Watch Over Me" she was nominated as The Romance Writers of America Convention.  In 2002, "Suddenly You" was a RITA finalist and she won The RITA Award for her Christmas anthology novella featured in the Dorchester publication "Wish List". Then "Lady Sophia's Lover" was awarded of Best Sensuous Historical Romance  from  Romantic  Times  magazine, and appears as reviewed in Publishers Weekly, with her novel "When Strangers Marry".

A few years later she tried to make novel series. Such as, The Travis who consisting of Sugar Daddy, Blue-Eyed Devil and Smooth Talking Stranger. All three received rave reviews from readers all over the world, especially in the United States. The first contemporary novel of Lisa, "Sugar Daddy" was a finalist for the RITA Award as Best Novel with Strong Romantic Elements, "Blue-Eyed Devil" too being a finalist of RITA Award. Meanwhile, Smooth Talking Stranger hit the New York Times Bestseller List and get third place.

The novel which most interesting in The Travis series is Blue-Eyed Devil. The published in 2008. This novel picked up the story about a girl, Haven Travis, who came from a wealthy family who falling in love with young man who a competitor of the company her father, Hardy Cates. There are many conflicts in this novel, disputes between Haven and Haven Mr. Travis leading away  from  the house, the internal problems that occur in the Travis family, and much more. The interesting thing about this novel is the persistence Haven to get sympathy from all her family members to accepted the presence of Hardy in the Travis family.

Therefore, the authors are interested in the theme of this inner conflict because of the many conflicts that exist in this novel. Morover, the authors also found a lot of lessons or implicit messages that we can take from this novel. That is about the life of luxury, but there are heartbreaking stories that make them struggled and get a successful.

Women and Occupation

Women No Less Formidable Than Men

The career women often hassles when going to the office in the morning. Either oversleep due to overtime or get traffic jam all the way to the office. Therefore, sometimes they're do some sloppy things like make-up when red light and eat while they're driving.

My older sister ever told me about her experience when she waking up late. "That day I have to do presentation, but I oversleep because I was overtime and forgot to set my alarm. So I showered with a rush and i went to office with haven't eaten anything. Fortunately i wasn't get some trouble when on the way to the office. But in the midst of doing presentation, my tummy suddenly was rumbling. And the people there laughing at me. How embarrassed!! >< "

After the incident, she is never skip her breakfast and always set the alarm. "I hope the incident never happen to me again." she said. She also said that in her office all employees are treated equally. There's no different treatment between male and female employees.It is confirmed that the woman was not to be underestimated, as evidenced by the research about some facts of excess women than men, as follows:

1. IQ
Based on research in Australia, Britain, the United States and some other countries, the average IQ of women is higher than men. It is because women are more rapid in accepting new things. So that they have wider knowledge. If you do not believe, do IQ tests all office employees and make an average IQ of male and female employees.

2. Women are more neatly than men
A study at University of San Diego on thousands of office, was found 10 to 20 percent bacteria inhabited on the workbench of men than the women. The psychological explained that men worker doesn't look too neat and really love the cleanliness like housewife.

3. Women always careful in doing something
Based on the psychological data collected in Europe, 77 percent of men more often do things in a hurry. Unlike the women who think carefully before taking action. And sometimes it's causes the men has messy work than women.

So the conclusion that women can not be underestimated and much needed by many companies is because women workers was more careful than men. Besides, the women workers can also was believed.

Hallyu Korean Fever ξ\(´▽`)/ξ

Why The Korean Wave Can be a World Wide?

What is Korean Wave? What's the impact of Korean Wave to people in the World? Korean wave is a popularity of Korean culture that spread in Asia and the other parts of the world. Such as K-Drama (Korean Drama), K-Pop (Korean Pop), Korean language, and Cuisine. The impact of Korean wave are many people from the world idolize the artists from Korea and vying to meet directly with their idol. One of their way is came to the concert which is held by the management of the artist. Besides, they're motivated to learn about Korean language, the culture, fashion, and hunting the items that related to their idol.

Korean Wave was dominated by teenagers and those twenties. Sometime they're willing their spend time and wasting their money to buy many goodies, albums and go to concert their idol. They're often blurt that it doesn't matter as long as they can meet or even have items that are similar to their idol stuff.  But in the fact, it's requires huge funds and not affordable for teens.

“I loved the Girls Generation because their fashion really eye-catching and make me imagined they're like a barbie doll..  Haha" she said. "Sometimes my mom will be gave some money if i ask that i want to buy some goodies or albums of Girls Generation. She really understand what i want.."

I think it is a bad example. Due to solve this problem, the parents need to be smart to give sense to the child about the impact of the Korean Wave. Instead of given a lot of money. This will make the child a big headed. The parents can also make the Korean Wave as motivation for their children to study hard, for example the parents can make deal with their child, if the children want to come the concert they must get a good score.

UMBUT MUDA

Once upon a time, in a region in Riau, lived a widow with her beautiful daughter named Umbut Muda. Umbut Muda had bad characters; she always treated her mother as if she was her servant. 

One day, there was a daughter of a noble family in that region who would get married. And of course Umbut Muda was invited. For this, she dressed as if she was a princess. She wanted nobody to match her beauty. To fit out her dress she wore all of her jewelries.

After finishing make up by herself, Umbut Muda invited her mother to leave to the party. She walked in the front, while her mother walked behind her and held the umbrella for her.

One, they crossed on a bridge over Siak River. Right in the middle of the bridge, however, suddenly four bracelets in Umbut Muda’s wrist loose and fell into the river. Umbut Muda screamed and pushed her mother into the river to get her bracelets.

At that moment, there came a hurricane from behind. The hurricane came all a sudden and twisted over Umbut Muda.

“Help…! Help…! Mother help…!”

Umbut Muda was holding on the bridge rail. But it was too late. Very quickly, the hurricane flew her away. She was like to be dragged to the air before finally she was thrown the river.

Her mother could not do anything for her. She could only watch her beloved daughter rolled forward and backward by the hurricane. That mother could not stand to watch her daughter suffers. She covered her eyes  with hand, and when she opened her eyes again Umbut Muda had been dead. At that moment, tears rolled down her cheeks.

Since then, there often appear some kind of black root that was played by the stream of Siak River. People believed that it was formerly Umbut Muda’s hair. This was taken as a reminder for the people nearby to always respect their mother.



by : Nadya Riska Rahmadina♥