THE ANALYSIS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS AT THE MOVIE GARDENS OF THE NIGHT DIRECTED BY DAMIAN HARRIS

A PAPER
Presented to the Academy of Foreign Language IKIK Jakarta in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Diploma Three (D.3) Program By

Dian Purnamasaripudin 3455XXXX

English Department The Academy of Foreign Language IKIK Jakarta 2011

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1.1. Background and Reason of Choosing the Title
Literature is one of subjects that learn in English study and often desribed qualities, so loves by many people. The writer prefers to choose movie because watching movie is easier to understand than reading novel. Psychological knowledge is often applied to the assessment and treatment of mental health problems, it is also applied to understand and solve problems in many different spheres of human activity. The writer interested in analyzing developmental child psychological aspect because the writer wants to more understand about child development which appear in the movie from the beginning until the ending.

1.2. Statement of the Problem

Through this paper the writer tries to find out the answer to some problems concerning the psychological aspect in the movie. Therefore the writer states some of the problems in the following questions : What are psychological aspect that we got from the movie ? How does the true stages of developmental psychological ? What is the moral message of the story ? The writer limits on analyzing the development psychological aspects of Leslie.

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1.3. Scope of the Problem 1.4. Method and Procedures of the Analysis
This analysis uses descriptive qualitative method and the procedures of this analysis have some steps: watching the movie the understand about story, find the theories from books and internet to be analyzed.

CHAPTER II THEORETICAL REVIEW

2.1. Psychology
Psychology is all about finding happiness. Psychology can be defined generally as the discipline concerned with behavior and mental processes and how they are affected by an organisms physical state, mental state, and external environment. Developmental Psychology is developmental psychologists study human mental and physical growth from the parental period through childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age . Based on the theory, psychology is the scientific study of how the writer can understand the behavior and processes mental that are useful to themselves and other. Developmental psychology have some stage from childhood to old age. childhood is the period change take place from birth to adolescence. adolescent is the period physical change of puberty. adulthood is the period of taking an adult responsibilities and social relationship in human life.

2.2. Aspects of Child Development

The areas of development described in this book are these such as Physical Development, Cognitive and Language Development, Emotional and Social Development, and Moral and Spiritual Development Child development is a young science and the systematic study of children is a relatively recent phenomenon Based on theory, science and the systematic study of child development. there are some aspect that to influence child development. From Physical of Child, Cognitive and Language that used by child, Emotional and Social and Moral and Spiritual Child are important given from child in order have a good behavior. Physical development is way in which the body increases in skill and have two main areas Gross and Motor Skill. Cognitive is development of the mind which the child study to understanding with study in the school or with reading can be clever. And Language is development of communication skill which the child study to good voice. Emotion is study to control emotion. And Social development is study to interaction with environment or the other human. Moral and spiritual consist developing awareness and involves understanding values such as honesty and respect or all of people action.

CHAPTER III DISCUSSION

3.1. Summary of the Story
At the age of eight, a young girl named Leslie kidnapped by Alex, and Frank. She and another victim, a young boy named Donnie, forced into prostitution and child-pornography. As a coping mechanism, Donnie and Leslie pretend they were in an imaginary world based on the stories of Mowgli and the Jungle Book. One day, Leslie went to a convenience store, where it was become apparent that her parents were looking for her, due to the fact that her picture was on milk cartons. The police showed up at Alex and Frank's house, and the two kidnappers hastily escape with the children. The story picked up years later, with Leslie and Donnie together, lived a hand to mouth existence. Leslie was prostituting herself, and as a way to move away from this, she tried to lure a young teen living in a shelter into a prostitution ring. Donnie had fallen in love with her, but Leslie was very confused because while she loves and cared for him, he as always acted as a brother and companion to her, and never as a lover. The counselor discovered her true identity and told her that her parents had been looking for her all these years, which she finally realizes was true. Leslie reunited with her parents and attempted to return home, however, she was too scarred from her life on the street and could not remain in such a normal atmosphere. She left in the middle of the night and hitchhiked to Florida, was hoping to re-unite with Donnie.

3.2. Analysis
Analysis the types of characters in the movie: Gardens of the Night is telling about the life story of Leslie, which her parents so busy to working, so she always stand alone to go to school and the last kidnapped by Frank and Alex. Since that, life story of Leslie was change. When she still live with her parents, her mental seen a cheerful young girl and when live with two criminals, she is to be a depressed young girl. Behavior in that life is not good, Leslie must bathing together with a boy is Donnie. This is time and dialogue from this movie. Which in this movie not occur the true stage in that mean, the activity that should children to do not same with the activity adulthood moreover the children should do work that not good such as be prostitute. This is stage of development that the writer analysis in this movie. In this movie, Leslie cannot pleasure during childhood because kidnapped. In adolescence, she and Donnie are criminal because must looking for money to eat. The situation and condition that they make do it. In this movie is not told about development Leslie to adult. In this movie gross motor skills can be analyzed that the movement of Leslie as a girl is pretty and funny hampered because she always caged or live with a young boy is Donnie. They activities just watching television and chatting in the bedroom.

3.2. Analysis
Fine manipulative skills involve precise use of the hand and fingers, for example pointing, drawing, using a knife and fork or chopsticks, writing or doing up shoelaces. Leslie, in the Garden of the Night Movies are described in the moments before she was kidnapped Leslie still went to school. Emotions that will evolve according to emotional impulses it receives. But in this film can be analyzed that this Leslie did not get affection from her parents who are in the form of hatred because he cheated that his parents did not want him anymore. And the emotions are very high level because of the life that forced him to live independently in the street. Social development includes the growth of the childs relationship with other people. Leslie, never go to play with her friends in outdoor. She was only with Donny in the bedroom. This aspect is related to the child's ability to interact with environment. In this case Leslie did not like mingling with her little friend expect Donny. In this aspect seems Leslie is a clever girl but unfortunately she was dropout and not ability to receptive speech (what a person understand), expressive speech (the words the person produces), articulation (the persons actual pronunciation of words), or process and understand the information communicated her cannot. Because she always caged and when she adulthood, she very busy working for getting of money. Donnie asking Leslie what is mean form a book that he see . In this movie, this stage not balance because nothing this aspect because Frank and Alex were evil. For money, they are doing it. In moral, they have kidnap, lie to child and have been doing sexual harassment for child under age.

CHAPTER IV CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

4.1. Conclusion Literature is one of the subjects that learn in English study and often described qualities, so loves by many people. Psychology is consider a science because psychologists attempt to understand people through careful, controlled observation. Psychology have some several studies, they are Developmental Psychology, Social Psychology, Personality Psychology and Cognitive Psychology. Developmental Psychology is developmental psychologists study human mental and physical growth from the parental period through childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. The areas of development described in this book are these such as Physical Development, Cognitive and Language Development, Emotional and Social Development, and Moral and Spiritual Development.

4.2. Suggestion

In this paper the writer gives some suggestion for audiences, the reader, the reader who want to make a paper like this. They are : For audiences just sit and relax to get entertain. In this part, the writer gives a suggestion for the audience in selecting the movie, so that the audiences can understand the story easily and find the messages of the movie. Before watching the movie, so that the audiences should find the references about the movie in order to know that the movie is good or not. For the readers, maybe little difficult because much branch of psychology. So, the readers should know what the writer explain from keyword or can read in the analysis. For the reader who want to make a paper like this. Before make this paper, the reader should know means of psychology, branch of psychology and aspects of psychology. Than must searching element psychology in the movie. Understand more than point the movie that the readers are watching and searching the references. So, all of can be easily.