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COPING WITH THYROID CANCER OF A CHILD IN JOHN GREEN’S NOVEL “THE FAULT IN OUR STARS”
This research studied about Coping with Thyroid Cancer in John Green’s
Novel “The Fault in Our Stars” which aimed to analyze the child behavior cope with
thyroid cancer in the novel. This research used descriptive qualitative method and
used note taking as the instrument. This research focused the child behavior cope
with thyroid cancer in the novel and based on Individual Psychology theory Alfred
Adler and coping strategies by Lazarus & Folkman. The result on this study shows,
based on the individual psychological analysis, the coping with thyroid cancer of
Hazel Grace Lancaster comes from her fictional finalism and is supported by her
inferiority feelings. It makes her strive to reach the superiority and creative power in
effort to overcome the problem of her diseases and her style of life. She learns to
become independent, being interest that is more social. There are two coping
strategies, problem-focus coping and emotion-focus coping on The Fault in Our
Stars. The researcher concluded that giving particular support and inspiration to
diseases of patients and the role of the people around diseases of patients.
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