An Analysis of Allyson’s Behavioral Changing to Find Her Real Character in Gayle Forman’s Just One Day

This study analyzes the behavioral changing of the main character,
Allyson in Gayle Forman’s Just One Day. Her changing is interesting to be
analyzed. Allyson is eighteen years old. She is an obedient girl. She never does
anything on her own will but she does anything what everyone told her. Her life is
exactly like her suitcase-packed, planned, and ordered. Allyson’s behavioral
changing happens after she interacts Willem in her study tour, Europa. The focus
of this study is about Allyson’s behavioral changing which caused by her
interaction. She finds her real character through the changing. Hence, social
interaction theory by George Simmel is used as a tool to analyze this novel.
Because this study is qualitative, the writer is the key instrument and the
data is described in the form of words. Consequently, main character’s utterances
are used to reveal the elaboration of main character’s changing. Hence, the data
collection has been done simultaneously with the data analysis.
After the study has been done, it uncovers Allyson’s interaction which
consists of two basic conditions of social interaction, they are:
Keywords: social interaction, sociology of literature, behaviorism.