Chick’s Resilience from Broken Home in Mitch Albom’s for One More Day

DOI

10.2991/adics-elssh-19.2019.33How to use a DOI?

Keywords

resilience, broken home, for one more day, psychological approach

Abstract

The objective of the research is to describe the resilience process of Chick Benneto as a broken home child in the novel. The subject of this research is the novel For One More Day by Mitch Albom and the object is Chick’s resilience from broken home. This research is grouped into library research and used a descriptive qualitative method to analyze the data. The data are analyzed using theories namely (1) psychological approach theory by Wellek and Warren (1956) and (2) the theory of resilience from broken home by Kumpfer (2002). The research findings and discussion of the research is the resilience process of Chick as a broken home child are divided into three phases are childhood, adolescent, and young-adult. In the childhood phase, Chick faced some problems, they are parental divorce and inferiority; in the adolescent phase, Chick had an abusive father that made traumatic experience; in the young-adult phase, Chick experienced father’s second marriage, protested and made a rebel to God, felt uneasy & realized problems in him, did cognitive reframing, realized bad anger management problem, felt uncomfortable with his family condition, and began to change. Chick’s resilience made him succeed in dealing with parental divorce.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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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