CADENCE’S ALIENATION IN E. LOCKHART’S WE WERE LIARS

The aim of this study is to discover the phenomenon of alienation and how to avoid it in E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars. Sigmund Freud\'s theory of Psychoanalytic is used to analyze the novel. Alienation by Erich Fromm is used as the main theory to analyze the novel and the other theory are used as supporting theory to discover the phenomenon of alienation. This study applies descriptive research by Isaac and Michael and qualitative research by Fraenkel and Wallen. The source of data is a novel by E. Lockhart entitled We Were Liars which is published in 2014. The data of this research are narrator’s explanation and character’s utterances that answer the research problems which described the phenomenon of alienation and the way to avoid it. The analysis of the novel is collect the data, reduce the data, compilate the data and draw the conclusion. The result of the study show that this novel describes alienation in various forms: aliened human, alienation roots and self-estrangement. The main trigger for alienation is alienation roots. alienation roots is the main trigger because the root of alienation is a family that is influenced by culture and economy. Then, it can be overcome in two ways: the out-way for alienation and freedom.