THE ANXIETY OF AUGGIE IN R.J PALACIO’S WONDERNOVEL

Fauziah, Renanda Miftachul.2019.The Anxiety of Auggie in R.J Palacio’s Wonder novel.
Undergraduate Thesis, English Language Education Department, Faculty of
Teacher Training and Education University of PGRI Adi Buana Surabaya. Advisor
: Dra. Wahju Bandjarjani, M. Pd.
Keywords: psychoanalytic theory, reality anxiety, impact on auggie, wonder novel.
This research aims to describe how anxiety is reflected to the main character of
Auggie in the novel and to reveal its impact on Auggie’s anxiety. Anxiety is the part of
psychoanalytic theory which is the branch of psychological theory. It is a condition which
possibly happens, but it will be something dangerous if it does not get the right handling. It
followed by an uncomfortable feeling characterized as worry, fear, unhappy moods that we
can feel through numerous levels. There are three kinds of anxiety namely neurotic, reality
anxiety and moral anxiety. This research only focused on Reality anxiety of Auggie in
Wonder novel.
The type of this research was descriptive qualitative. The researcher got the data from
the novel which included the quotations and sentences. The techniques of collecting the data
were reading the wonder novel repeatedly, taking quotations, and classifying. The technique
of data analysis was descriptive interpretative which comprised four procedures, namely; data
reduction, data display, data validity and conclusion.
The result of this research showed that reality anxiety of Auggie when he got a
deformed face was because of his surgeries since birth. The researcher found the reality
anxiety of Auggie were fear, confusion and sadness. The researcher also found the impact on
Auggie that there was Auggie who did not want to go to school because his friend bullied
him. Auggie felt anxious about what his friend talked about him. The researcher wishes that
this research will be useful for the readers who want to understand about anxiety of Auggie in
R.J Palacio's Wonder novel. Also for English teaching, this research can help them to
increase the knowledge about language function about anxiety, such as; to give suggestions,
recommendations, and expressing anxiety. For further research, other research can analyze
the other aspects of anxiety, such as neurotic and moral anxieties.