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JODEE BLANCO’S MOTIVATION OF WRITING

HER MEMOIR PLEASE STOP LAUGHING AT ME . . .

ONE WOMAN’S INSPIRATIONAL STORY

A SARJANA PENDIDIKAN FINAL PAPER

Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements

to Obtain the Sarjana Pendidikan Degree

in English Language Education

By

By

Pramardaniswara Adyangga

Student Number: 101214028

ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM

DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGE AND ARTS EDUCATION

FACULTY OF TEACHERS TRAINING AND EDUCATION

SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY

YOGYAKARTA

2015

PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJIPLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI

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STATEMENT OF WORK’S ORIGINALITY

I honestly declare this thesis, which I have written, does not contain the work or

parts of the work of other people, except those cited in the quotations and the

references, as a scientific paper should.

Yogyakarta, September 10, 2015

The Writer


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LEMBAR PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN

PUBLIKASI KARYA ILMIAH UNTUK KEPENTINGAN AKADEMIS

Yang bertanda tangan di bawah ini, saya mahasiswa Universitas Sanata Dharma:

Nama : Pramardaniswara Adyangga

Nomor Mahasiswa : 101214028

Demi pengembangan ilmu pengetahuan, saya memberikan kepada Perpustakaan

Universitas Sanata Dharma karya ilmiah saya yang bejudul:

“JODEE BLANCO’S MOTIVATION OF WRITING

HER MEMOIR PLEASE STOP LAUGHING AT ME . . .

ONE WOMAN’S INSPIRATIONAL STORY”

Dengan demikian saya memberikan kepada Perpustakaan Universitas Sanata

Dharma hak untuk menyimpan, mengalihkan dalam bentuk media lain,

mengelolanya dalam bentuk pangkalan data, mendistribusikan secara terbatas, dan

mempublikasikannya di Internet atau media lain untuk keperluan akademis tanpa

perlu meminta ijin dari saya maupun memberikan royalty kepada saya selama

tetap mencantumkan nama saya sebagai penulis.

Demikian pernyataan ini yang saya buat dengan sebenarnya.

Dibuat di Yogyakarta

PadaTanggal: 10 September 2015

Yang menyatakan



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ABSTRACT

Adyangga, Pramardaniswara. (2015). Jodee Blanco’s Motivation Of Writing

Her Memoir Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story.

Yogyakarta: English Education Study Program, Sanata Dharma University.

The study of this paper is to find and explain about Jodee Blanco’s

motivations of writing her memoir Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s

Inspirational Story. The book is a memoir of Jodee Blanco’s past experience as a

victim of bullying in her school ages and how she survived it. The book Please

Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story is a memoir from

Jodee Blanco’s past. Memoir is like a novel but it contains of stories based on real

events yet novels are only based on fictional imagination. Jodee Blanco is an

activist of anti-bullying, she created a seminar called INJJA (It’s Not Just Joking

Around!) and she has visited many schools in America.

In this paper writer decided to find and analyze the answer of these two

problems: 1) How did Jodee Blanco build the motivation of writing her book? 2)

What are Jodee Blanco’s motivations of writing her book? In the discussion, the

writer used biographical approach in order to find the relation between the

motivations and the biography of the author. Through the biography the writer

could identify what happened to Jodee Blanco in her past. The theories used are

motivation theories by Harmer and McClelland and also the kinds of motivations

theory by Schunk, Pintrich, and Meece.

The motivation theories by Harmer and McClelland are used by the writer

to answer the first research question and the theory of kinds of motivation by

Schunk, Pintrich, and Meece is used by the writer to answer the second research

question. Both answers are analyzed by using biographical approach.

Based on the first research question the writer found that in the theory of

motivation; to build a motivation a human needs a habit, an expectation, and a

hunger to be the internal drive or push for a human to do something. In Jodee

Blanco’s case, her habit is her hobby to write, her expectation is a hope for people

to acknowledge her writings and read it, and her hunger is her desire for people to

share her idea so bullying can be erased. Then from the second research question

the writer found that there are one extrinsic motivation and two intrinsic

motivations that drove Blanco to for writing her memoir. The extrinsic motivation

was the bullying Blanco got in her past, made her the bullying victim. The first

intrinsic motivation is the that Blanco wants to erase bullying because she was a

victim of bullying, the second intrinsic motivation is that she has the desire to

share her past stories to the readers so that her case of bullying will not happen

again.

Keywords: motivation, memoir, bullying, author


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ABSTRAK

Adyangga, Pramardaniswara. (2015). Jodee Blanco’s Motivation Of Writing

Her Memoir Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story.

Yogyakarta: English Education Study Program, Sanata Dharma University.

Studi dari makalah ini adalah untuk menemukan dan menjelaskan tentang

motivasi Jodee Blanco dalam menulis memoarnya Please Stop Laughing At Me . .

. One Woman’s Inspirational Story. Buku ini adalah sebuah memoir dari

pengalaman masa lalu Jodee Blanco sebagai korban bullying di usia sekolah dan

bagaimana dia bertahan. Buku Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s

Inspirational Story adalah sebuah memoir dari masa lalu Jodee Blanco. Memoar

adalah sebuah buku seperti novel yang mengandung cerita berdasarkan kejadian

nyata sementara novel berdasarkan imajinasi fiksi. Jodee Blanco adalah seorang

aktivis anti-bullying, dia menciptakan sebuah seminar yang disebut INJJA (It’s

Not Just Joking Around!) dan dia telah mengunjungi banyak sekolah di Amerika.

Dalam tulisan ini penulis memutuskan untuk menemukan dan

menganalisis jawaban dari kedua pertanyaan: 1)Bagaimana Jodee Blanco

membangun motivasi dalam menulis bukunya? 2)Apa saja motivasi Jodee Blanco

dalam menulis bukunya? Dalam diskusi ini, penulis menggunakan pendekatan

biografis untuk menemukan hubungan antara motivasi dan biografi pengarang.

Melalui biografi penulis bias mengidentifikasi apa yang terjadi pada Jodee

Blanco di masalalunya. Teori yang digunakan adalah teori motivasi oleh Harmer

dan McClelland dan juga teori jenis motivasi oleh Schunk, Pintrich, dan Meece.

Pendekatan biografis serta teori-teori motivasi oleh Harmer dan

McClelland digunakan oleh penulis untuk menjawab pertanyaan penelitian

pertama dan teori jenis motivasi oleh Schunk, Pintrich, dan Meece digunakan

oleh penulis untuk menjawab pertanyaan penelitian kedua.

Berdasarkan pertanyaan penelitian pertama penulis menemukan bahwa

dalam teori motivasi; untuk membangun motivasi seorang manusia membutuhkan

kebiasaan, harapan, dan rasa lapar untuk menjadi sebuah dorongan yang

mendorong manusia untuk melakukan sesuatu. Dalam kasus Blanco,

kebiasaannya adalah hobinya dalam menulis, harapannya adalah harapan agar

orang-orang untuk mengakui tulisan-tulisannya dan membacanya, dan rasa

laparnya adalah keinginannya agar orang-orang dapat berbagi cerita agar

bullying dapat terhapus. Kemudian dari pertanyaan penelitian kedua penulis

menemukan satu motivasi ekstrinsik dan dua motivasi intrinsik yang mendorong

Blanco menulis memoarnya: bullying yang menjadikannya korban bullying di

masa lalu adalah motivasi ekstrinsik Blanco. Motivasi intrinsic pertama adalah

bahwa Blanco ingin menghapus bullying karena dia adalah korban bullying,

motivasi intrinsic kedua adalah bahwa dia memiliki keinginan untuk berbagi

cerita masa lalunya kepada pembaca agar kasus bullying tidak akan terjadi lagi.

Keywords: motivation, memoir, bullying, author


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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The first of all, I would like to give my gratitude to Jesus Christ who had

guided me until this point where I can finally finish my final paper. He had guided

me and given me all the supports, the inspiration and all of the references. I’m

grateful for His grace and His blessings.

The second, I’d like to thank my parents; my mother Girianti Aniswari

and my father F.X. Prayudi also my brother Pranadwibaswara Adisatya for the

supports, the prayers, and of course the love they give for me so I can finish this

paper quickly. I also would like to thank to all of my relatives for the support for

me.

Third, I would like to thank Drs. Barli Bram, M.Ed., Ph.D for the

guidance and the advice so I can finish this final paper. I also would like to thank

Caecillia Tutyandari, M.Pd. for the advice and lectures that I can finish this

paper quickly.

Fourth, my big gratitude is for Hedwigis Rosario for the books, the

supports and the prayers. My thanks for my good friends Philip, Marion, Ryan,

Bryan, Alfa, Sipit, Angga, Dewa, Adit, Veri, Puguh, and all of my good friends

of PBI 2008-2014 who had given me a lot of encouragement and supports to

finish this paper quickly.



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Table of Contents

Page

TITLE PAGE…………………………………………………………… i

APPROVAL PAGE……………………………………………………. ii

STATEMENT OF WORK’S ORIGINALITY………………………… iv

PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN PUBLIKASI………………………… v

ABSTRACT……………………………………………………………. vi

ABSTRAK………………………………………………………………. vii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS……………………………………………. viii

TABLE OF CONTENTS………………………………………………. ix

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION……………………………………… 1

A. Background………………………………………………… 1

B. Approach of the study …………………….……………….. 5

CHAPTER II. DISCUSSION…………………………………………. 8

A. The author’s biography……………………………………… 8

B. Theoretical description……………………………………… 12

C. Summary of the book……………………………………….. 14

D. Jodee Blanco’s motivation of writing the book…….………. 16

CHAPTER III. CONSLUSION…………………………………….…. 20

REFERENCES…………………………………………………………. 22

APPENDICES……………………………………………………….…. 24


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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

This paper investigates the motivations of Jodee Blanco of writing her

book about bullying; Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational

Story. This chapter presents the background of the study, research problem, the

significance of the study, the objectives of the study, and the approach used in this

study.

A. Background

Novel is a long story written in prose, using appropriate rhythms and

sound patterns to create an oral art. In the middle ages, prose was written in

formal Latin, the universal language of learning and religion. In the late medieval

romances, prose had begun to enter continental literature. These stories about

knights and their adventures were written in Romance languages spoken by their

first readers. In the early renaissance, Italian Boccacio experimented with the

common language in telling tales of current life. Such stories came to be called

novella or “new things”. Thus arose the English word novel (A Guide To The

Novel, 1965, p.89).

In another literature, there are also autobiography and memoir. The story

almost the same as novels, but there are differences in the background of the

story. Autobiography is written based on the author’s memory of his/her own

experience and can be changed into a story, then it is written in a form of prose. In


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the other hands, a memoir is like an autobiography, but it is written with the

original feelings and emotions of the writer.

As the world proliferated toward the twentieth century, so does the subject

matter in the literature. The age which discovered biological evolution, also

discovered a novelist (Zola) who would translate that knowledge into fiction. The

depth psychology of Freud and others was attended by the corresponding

psychological fiction of Dostoevski, Joyce, and D.H. Lawrence. Every new crisis

of Western culture found its fictional mirror. Imperialism was reflected by Joseph

Conrad, modern warfare by Stephen Crane and Mikhail Sholokhov, race friction

by Alan Paton and William Faulkner. The modern novelist has had more subject

matter to work with and a more complicated subject matter than ever before (A

Guide To The Novel, 1965, p.117).

There is also a subject matter inside education; bullying. Even though

education seems harmless, there are negative causes in the process of educating,

one of it is bullying. Bullying is repeated verbal, physical, social or psychological

aggressive behavior by a person or group directed towards a less powerful person

or group that is intended to cause harm, distress or fear. Bullying in a school, first

it can be a form of verbal abuse, for example is to give targeted name-calling or

jokes. Second it can be a form of violence; the examples are threats or giving the

victims violent treatments. Third it can be a form of sexual harassment; the

example is conduct of a sexual nature, which could reasonably be expected to

cause offence, humiliation or intimidation. The last is discrimination, treating

people badly because of their identity. The examples of discrimination are


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students who think that they have more influence in the society discriminate them

who influence less in the society.

From the subject matter above, the writer wants to analyze the motivations

of Blanco in writing her book about bullying Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One

Woman’s Inspirational Story. The content of the book is about the memoir of

Blanco’s personal experience in her daily life when she was still in her school

days. When Blanco decided to write about the book, she never imagined that the

book could become a New York Times best seller and it could become the trigger

for Blanco to be an anti-bullying activist. Writer knows that the reason of Blanco

of writing this book is that she was the victim of bullying, but the writer wants to

analyze the motivations instead of the reason why Jodee Blanco wrote the book.

The writer himself was also a victim of bullying in his childhood until his

teenager days. The writer was bullied for 10 years since the writer was 6 years

old. The forms of bullying the writer got were physical and psychological, but

psychological was the most often. This personal experience of the writer has

become one of the reasons why the writer chose to do this study.

Based on the background of the study, writer divided the research question

into two questions, which will become the subject to be analyzed deeper in this

paper. The questions are 1) How did Jodee Blanco build the motivations of

writing her book? 2) What were Jodee Blanco’s motivations of writing her book?

The study is to analyze the motive of Jodee Blanco as the writer of her

book about her personal experience in defending herself against bullying. The

study is limited to analyze what kind of motivations that drove Blanco to be able


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to decide that she would write a book about her personal experience against

bullying and Blanco’s purpose of writing her book.

The results of this study can be useful in improving the quality of

educators in the education system nowadays. Educators like teachers, lecturers,

tutors, or even parents can learn the knowledge found in the results of the paper’s

discussion and apply the knowledge in teaching their pupils how to adapt in the

society. The discussion of Blanco’s motivations of writing her book includes the

analysis of motivations and its variety, what cause the motivations to be existed,

and the influence of the cause of motivations in Blanco’s life in the present, which

can make the readers feel the experience of Blanco in the past when she was still

struggling against bullying. The study is related to psychology and education

rather than literature.

This study is valuable to be read for anyone, the study is not only for

literature major, it emphasizes the psychology and education above literature. The

study is valuable to they who work in education or psychology environment.

From this study those who work in education environment can educate better in

order to create better education environment for the students. They who work in

psychology environment can also study some of the cases happened in education

and how to handle them contextually. Readers can also share the information

through other people so that the message of this study can be conveyed and can be

applied in the society.

There are four benefits of this study, the first one is for English Learning

Education Study Program, which is for an example of a case study that can be


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applied in Psikologi Remaja, Psikologi Belajar dan Pembelajaran, and it can also

be an example of a result study to be discussed in classes like Introduction of

Literature, Prose, and Book Report.

The second benefit is for educators like teachers, tutors, lecturers, or even

parents. This study is analyzing about motivations of someone who became a

victim of bullying, for they who have education background will get knowledge

of how to defend their pupils against bullying and how to act based on real

incidents. For the educators like teachers, tutors or lecturers, it is important to get

involved with the students who get bullied. Educators can give students what they

need in defending themselves, but in the other side educators must take the action

to make things better for the students; so the bullies could understand the negative

effect caused by bullying, and the victim could feel safe.

The third benefit is for students, whether they are children or teenagers.

Bullying is a serious matter for students, some can survive and tell the story, some

are failing and there are a lot of suicide cases of students who cannot survive.

Those students are oppressed, and choose the wrong way to end their problem.

Through the result of this study, writer hopes that students who read this paper

would find the way to defend themselves against bullying.

The fourth benefit is for readers. They who read this paper might find

knowledge and inspiration for themselves, about bullying, about Blanco’s past in

struggling to defend herself against bullying, about how a motivation can trigger

Blanco in writing her book and inspire people.


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B. Approach of the Study

This study is using biographical approach. In order to analyze the

biography of Blanco, the writer used biographical approach. Rohrberger and

Woods (1971:8) stated that biographical approach refers to the necessity for an

appreciation of the ideas and personality of the author to an understanding of the

literary object. They also stated that on the basis of the biographical approach, a

work of art is a reflection of a personality, that in the esthetic experience the

reader shares the authors’ consciousness, and that at least part of the readers’

response is to the author’s personality. Consequently, we attempt to learn and to

apply this knowledge in our attempt to understand the author’s writings. To

interpret and understand the motivation, writer needs to know what causes the

motivations to be existed in the first place through the biography and the

experience from the writer of the book Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One

Woman’s Inspirational Story, Jodee Blanco.

The first step to conduct this study is to read the novel Please Stop

Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story by Jodee Blanco. This

book had been sold three hundred thousand copies and this book was a best seller

in New York Times in 2012. This book is the trigger for Blanco to be an anti-

bullying activist. At first people see this book as a book with no “real” audiences,

and then when people began to start reading this book, they began to acknowledge

the hidden message inside the book and then the book became famous. In the

discussion the book will be summarized and will be discussed thoroughly.


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The second step is to write some facts about the author of this book and

additional information about this book. The writer finds that it is important to

learn about the author’s biography; there the writer can learn more about the

author’s background, her life, and her experience in defending herself against

bullying. From the author’s experience writer hopes that the motivations of the

author of Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story,

Jodee Blanco, will be revealed. The additional information about this book is also

important, the motivation, or the writer can say Blanco’s main purpose which will

be studied in this paper, has a result which is the book Please Stop Laughing At

Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story. The additional information of the book

is to find how useful the book is to the world of education and literature.

The third step is to find any theories and approaches that can help writer

with the study. The theory used in this paper is the theory of motivation, the kinds

of motivation, and the theory of human motivation. The approach used in this

paper is biographical approach. Biographical approach is being used in this paper

in order to find the relation between the author’s biography in the past and the

motivations she came up with in the first place in writing her book.


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CHAPTER II

DISCUSSION

The content of this chapter is about the discussion of the problem

formulation that has been written in chapter 1. This chapter contents are the

author’s biography, the summary of the book Please Stop Laughing At Me . . .

One Woman’s Inspirational Story, and the motivation she came up with of writing

the book in the first place. The theories of motivation, human motivation, and

kinds of motivation will be added as additional theory to support the study.

A. The Author’s Biography

The biography of Blanco’s past is very limited, it is restricted to the

professional biography only. The general information writer had collected only

limited to the year she was born and the city she was born. The other information

is in her book Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story.

Jodee Blanco was born in 1964 and lives in Chicago. Since fifth grade until her

senior high school times in the past, she had always been avoided because she was

different than others. She was more like an adult than a kid, she’d rather wrote

poems than playing balls or gossiping in the tree house, and she would always

help they who were oppressed, even if it meant that she had to face the anger of

the bullies.

Blanco struggled against kinds of humiliation she got when she was still in

school. She studied in Holy Ascension Elementary School, the school is a


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Catholic school and it has special program for mentally challenged and disable

students. Then she switched school to Morgan Hills Junior High School, at first it

was nice, she got friends and she even invited to a party. But incidents happened

and her friends start to humiliate her. The humiliation was only in a form of

mocking and disturbance, but then it started to become violence. All of those

humiliations made Blanco thought that the non-existence of love and compassion

was not the worst feeling. The worst feeling was when she gave all the love and

compassion, but others do not want those. Blanco was a good girl back then; she

kept being nice and helped others. Yet, ironically her good intentions were

rejected and she was getting bullied because she is a nice and caring person.

Because the personal information of Jodee Blanco is restricted, the writer

decided to take the personal biography below from her book Please Stop

Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story.

Now, she is a survivor, an expert and an activist. Blanco is one of

the country’s important voices on the subject of bullying. She is the author of The

New York Times bestselling, Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s

Inspirational Story. A journey of her past as the student outcast, the book inspired

a movement among bullying victims everywhere of all ages in middle and high

schools, on college campuses, at the workplace, and at home, who fill auditoriums

and gymnasiums coast to coast to hear Blanco speak on how they too can reclaim

their dignity and their lives. Referred to by many as “the anti-bullying bible,” it is

required reading in hundreds of middle and high schools and numerous

universities and professional organizations throughout the country.


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Blanco’s work as a survivor turned activist has been recognized by The

National Crime Prevention Council, The Department of Health & Human

Services, the National Association of Youth Courts, Special Olympics, The

FCCLA (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America), and hundreds of

state and local entities from the PTA, regional law enforcement coalitions and

suicide prevention organizations to school safety groups, mental health advocacy

groups, and drug prevention programs. While Blanco’s unprecedented approach to

shifting the social dynamic for bullying victims of all walks of life continues to

make headlines worldwide, it is her dramatic success inside America’s schools

that has established her as a singular force in the field, and enabled her to

understand bullying in all its forms. Her compelling approach to adult bullying

emanates from that rare place of understanding that only someone who deals with

the issue at its core could grasp.

She has presented It’s NOT Just Joking Around!™, her acclaimed in-

school anti-bullying program, with the audience of over five-hundred thousand

students, teachers and parents nationwide and also The United States Department

of Interior, The United States Department of Justice, The National Catholic

Educational Association, The Illinois Association of School Boards and scores of

local school districts, many of whom are adopting her initiatives as part of their

core bullying prevention curriculum. It’s NOT Just Joking Around! also has

generated hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant awards for schools and

organizations coast to coast.


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Blanco has successfully intervened in many bullying related attempted

suicides and acts of victim retaliation, ranging from desperate, lonely teens with

“hit lists;” badly treated employees at the end of their rope wanting to “end it all,”

and burnt-out guidance counselors who can’t cope anymore; to grief-stricken

parents unable to move on . These people open up to Blanco because they see in

her a kindred spirit, someone who’s willing to crawl down inside the hole where

they’re trapped and guide them out the same way she did for herself.

The media also turned to Blanco frequently as an expert interview,

including CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX, CNN, HLN, Newsweek, US News & World

Report, and her story has been featured on The CBS Evening News, the cover of

Teen Newsweek, USA Today, Parade Magazine, and she has bylined pieces for

CNN.COM, USAToday.com, and The Huffington Post, among many others.

A tireless advocates for the shunned and forgotten, Blanco’s rare

understanding of why kids abuse other kids and how that pattern can continue into

adulthood, rearing its head at work, at home, in relationships and wreak havoc on

virtually every aspect of one’s life, comes from a deep personal place. From fifth

grade through the end of high school, she was rejected and tormented by her peers

simply for being different and knows first-hand the long-term consequences. As

an adult, she decided to go public with her story because she was frustrated with

society's misconceptions about bullying, misconceptions that were leading to the

loss of lives. As Blanco says to audiences, “no one has the right to abuse you, not

your classmates, friends, spouse, family, teachers, co-workers, boss, no one!


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Standing up for yourself non-violently in the moment abuse occurs is your human

right.”

Blanco has been helping the misunderstood, ostracized, and forgotten

reclaim that right across America every day. Since the release of Please Stop

Laughing At Me . . ., she has committed her life to turning her pain into purpose.

Inspired by the thousands of letters and requests she receives for help, she travels

around the country sharing her story of forgiveness and triumph. One of the most

sought-after keynote/motivational speakers and seminar presenters, Blanco’s talks

are redefining the scope of possibilities for curbing suffering in our schools, corporations,

and communities worldwide. Blanco’s work has been published in Japanese, Danish and

Arabic. Now she lives in Florida.

B. Theoretical Description

1. Motivation

Motivation can be defined in various ways. Harmer (2001: 51) highlights

that at its basic level, motivation is some kind of internal drive that pushes

someone to do things in order to achieve something. In addition, McClellan

(1985) stated that habits increase motivation, as do expectations and motives or

drives. McClellan also stated that there are three major factor why motivation can

be happened; habit, expectation, and hunger. Habit defines usual activities that

happen every day, habits can increase hunger. Expectation is defined as something

that we hope to be happened. Hunger is the main reason of why people have

motivation in the first place. To satisfy the hunger people must eat, and the drive

that pushes people to eat is what we call as motivation.


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The motivation itself is divided into two. Harmer (2001:51) argues that

extrinsic motivation is affected by any number of outside factors, such as the need

to pass an exam, the hope of financial reward, or the possibility of future travel. In

other hand, intrinsic motivation, come from within the individual. Thus, a person

might be motivated by the enjoyment of the learning process itself or by a desire

to make themselves feel better.

2. Kinds of Motivation

There are two kinds of motivation based on Schunk, Pintrich, and Meece

(2002). The two kinds of motivation are intrinsic motivation and extrinsic

motivation.

2.1. Intrinsic Motivation

Intrinsic motivation is a kind of behavior that is driven by internal

rewards. In other words, the motivation to engage in a behavior arises from within

the individual because it is intrinsically rewarding. Schunk, Pintrich, and Meece

(2002) stated that intrinsic motivation refers to motivation to engage in an activity

for its own sake. For example in education, students who are intrinsically

motivated to work on task would find them enjoyable. The enjoyment of doing

task itself is the reward, Intrinsic Motivation does not depend on another reward

or other external constrains. When a student is doing a task, she/he is motivated to

do her/his task because she/he is telling herself/himself to do the task by

herself/himself, and she/he is enjoying doing it by herself/himself.

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Schunk, Pintrich, and Meece (2002) stated that extrinsic motivation is a

negative motivation to engage in an activity as a means to an end. Individuals who

are extrinsically motivated work on task because they believe that participation

will result in desirable outcomes such as reward, praise, or avoidance of

punishment. For example, people work for money. The work is not the main point

why these people do the works; the main point is the money. Money is the reward.

C. Summary of the Book

The story begins when Blanco remembers her past as she considers if it is

okay to go to the high school reunion or not. Blanco was in her car, talking to

herself that she is a grown and successful woman now, her past cannot hurt her no

more, but she is still being haunted by the old ghosts of her past. Then the

flashbacks begin.

It was the first day at school, Blanco put all of her courage into her mind

and get ready to go to school. Blanco was a misfit, a freak, and an outcast in her

junior high school, she was bullied, tortured with words and violence. Those

happened because was different, she is a nice girl and she might be looked weak

for others so that’s why they hurt her. But this time would be different; at least she

thought that good things, even awesome things would happen to her. She looked

confident as she said her farewell to her mother before she entered the school bus,

but when she was inside she had to choose her seat. The seat was divided into four

groups; the back seats are for cool kids and troublemakers, the middle seats are for

cheerleaders and athletes, the front-middle seats are for smart people, and the last

ones are the seats in the front, those are for losers. Blanco chose the middle seat at


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first, but one of the cheerleaders did not accept her so she had to go. Finally she

chose the seat where losers sat, in the front beside the driver.

When she was arrived at the school, she entered her class and was asked to

do a speech in front of the class. She was so nervous and chose the wrong topic to

be shared. She was doing speech about they who are oppressed by bullies. After

she done with her speech, the class became quiet. Then she sat on her chair and

found a paper, it was written by one of them who sit in the back seats. A sentence,

so deep and heart-breaking was written there and that made Blanco thought that

her junior high school times were going to be happened again.

Blanco’s elementary school was also a nightmare for her. She was in the

fifth grade. At first she was a popular girl with many friends until she befriended a

mentally challenged student in her Catholic grade school; once word got out that

she was hanging out with a “retard,” she herself became labeled a freak. At first

Blanco wanted to make some distance from her new friend, but internal guilt and

external parental pressure led her back into the friendship and she lost some

friends and was getting bullied by her former friends.

Things were going so well for Blanco that she had to switch schools. At

first, Blanco got friends, and her friends were popular kids. Blanco’s days were so

happy, until she ruined her friends’ party. The party made her feel uncomfortable

to be there that she had to call her parents to pick her up. But then she told her

parents about the party and her parents told her friend’s mother, which ruined the

party and it made her regain her outcast status so brutal that the class loser refused

to talk to her. Her shoes were tossed into toilets; her clothes were stolen from her


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locker and destroyed; and she was beaten after school. Blanco’s parents were

convinced that the problem was hers and forced her into psychiatric treatment

while teachers told her that she needed to work the problems out for herself.

As Blanco passed into senior high school, her life remained a living hell.

A genetic deformity on her breasts made her an even greater target for the cruelest

of predators: the popular girls. She was also hated by the teachers because she

tried to correct her teachers’ word which led to a more living hell; her teacher left

her and ignored her. Such mocking like giving out the names of “freak” and

“loser” were easy for her to handle. It had become worst; Blanco’s classmates

would threaten to kill her and refused to even allow her in the cafeteria at lunch.

One day they pushed her into traffic when she got off the school bus. The threats,

taunts, and physical and mental abuse continued until Blanco’s last day of senior

year, when she took a leap of faith and asked a classmate and former friend to sign

her yearbook. Smiling, he wrote painful sentence with dirty words with a black

marker and handed it back for her to read.

D. Jodee Blanco’s Motivation of Writing Her Book

To answer the first research question “How did Jodee Blanco build the

motivation of writing her book?” the writer used McClleland’s theory of

motivation and based on McClleland’s theory to build a motivation, a human

needs three major factors: habits, expectation, and hunger. These three major

factors are a reason why the motivation is needed to be built. Based on

McClelland explanation about human motivation, the writer discovered the


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answer of the first research question which is: a human needs to have habit to

increase his/her motivation, expectation as hopes, and hunger to trigger all.

Blanco’s habit is writing. She loves writing. It was stated in an interview that

writing has empowered her in every aspect of her life. It’s given her a place to

vent and make sense of pain, it’s allowed her to turn her pain into purpose by

helping others, and it’s provided a focus that gives her great joy. Her habit of

writing helps her to build a motivation of writing a book. Expectation or hope can

help building motivation. In Blanco’s case, she hoped that they who are the

victims would read her book and make it as an inspiration just to tell those victims

that they are not alone and they can survive the bullying. The last, is hunger.

Hunger is the main trigger of the motivation. The reason why she is

hungry is because bullying exists. Bullying is a common problem happened in

teenagers’ days. Bullying is an unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged

children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is

repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. To be considered as

bullying, the behavior must be aggressive and it includes an imbalance of power.

Kids who bully use their power, in this case, such as physical strength, access to

embarrassing information, or popularity, which are to control or harm others. In

Blanco’s case, she always lost in popularity; her friends who are popular always

take benefits from her and use her, they even do violent acts to make her feel bad.

This aggressive behavior caused her to be mentally ill and caused her to suffer

traumatic disorder. Another aggressive behavior also included repetition.

Repetition means that bullying behaviors happen more than once or have the


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potential to happen more than once. In Blanco’s case, she was being bullied by the

same people every day. This could be happened because it started from a certain

group which was Blanco’s group at first. The bullying started after Blanco

denounced her group’s secret to their parents. The bullying happened almost

every day.

Based on the summary of the book, the biographical approach used to

relate the motivation with the biography in Blanco’s book, Harmer’s theory of

motivation, and Schunk, Pintrich, and Meece’s theory of Intrinsic and Extrinsic

Motivation, the writer found the answers of the second research question “What

were Jodee Blanco’s motivations of writing her book?” and there are two

motivations that drove Blanco of writing her book.

The first motivation is that the fact that Blanco was the victim of bullying

for almost 8 years and she has the push or internal drive to tell the world about her

experience that she survived it. Blanco is a living victim of bullying, she was

bullied from the fifth grade until she graduated from senior high school; her life

was a living hell. Yet she survived to tell her story how she struggled in her living

hell. This experience, which she got in her childhood until her teenager days has

become a motivation for her of writing her stories in a form of a book. The

motivation was an intrinsic motivation, which is a motivation that arises from

within the individual because it is intrinsically rewarding. The bullying itself also

became an external drive, because bullying existed and it harmed Blanco in the

past, it created a traumatic experience for her which is an extrinsic motivation and

it is a negative motivation. Both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation Blanco had


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made her to tell the world that bullying is not a joke and it is a serious matter in a

form of a book, with her true stories inside it.

The second motivation is that she wrote her book because the internal

drive inside her wanted people, victims of bullying, parents, educators, and

everyone who reads her book, to know and take the knowledge and make it an

inspiration then they can share it to other people to minimize or even to erase

bullying. The motivation she had was also an Intrinsic Motivation. There is no

Extrinsic Motivation in Blanco’s motivation of writing her book. Extrinsic

Motivation is a negative motivation. In the theoretical description it is explained

that Extrinsic Motivation is a negative motivation to engage in an activity as a

means to an end, individuals who are extrinsically motivated work on task

because they believe that participation will result in desirable outcomes such as

reward, praise, or avoidance of punishment. In Blanco’s case, there is no Extrinsic

Motivation because Blanco asked for a reward, which is a demand from her, and it

is intrinsically rewarding. Blanco wanted that they who are the victims of

bullying, or even the parents or friends of the victims, to read her book and make

it as an inspiration and then he also asked for the readers to recommend her book

to other people. The outcome is to tell the bullying victims in the present time that

they are not alone and they can survive the bullying.


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CHAPTER III

CONCLUSION

This is the last chapter of the study. The content of this chapter is about

overall conclusions of the discussion. In the chapter two, from the discussion, the

research questions have been answered. From her childhood, it is written in her

book that she loves writing poems than playing balls, she is an actress in a

theatrical play, and she also loves to write speech and monologues. From the book

writer also found the fact that she is a timid person. Blanco always describes

herself as a girl who is different than the others, she has good behavior. Sadly, the

behavior made her to be rejected in her society. Her love to write has become a

habit for her. This habit is one of the factors for her to be motivated of writing her

book. She also has expectations for them who read her book. Blanco expected

they who have read the book would feel inspired by her story. This expectation is

building a motivation inside her to write the book. She also has the want or the

hunger. She wants people to read the book and experience her stories through the

book so other people can feel how it is to live in a society full of bullying. The

hunger built and increased her motivation.

The conclusion of the study Jodee Blanco’s motivation of writing her

novel is interpreted by the writer’s interpretation which is based on the theory of

motivation by Harmer, McClelland, and the theory of intrinsic and extrinsic

motivation by Schunk, Pintrich, and Meece. Blanco’s motivation of writing her

memoir was based on her experience in the past that became an internal drive


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from herself (intrinsic motivation) and the bullying itself also became an external

drive for her (extrinsic motivation) that the stories of her past in surviving against

bullying need to be shared in a form of a book; a memoir. This book has a socio-

educative value, the stories in Blanco’s past make the readers who read the book

understand that bullying has to be erased for a better education in the future. The

book also has a preventive value, the ones who read the book will be able to

prevent bullying from happening by sharing Blanco’s ideas that bullying has to be

erased to other people. Her life in the childhood was not happy, she was

tormented and she lost her childhood. By reading the book, the writer experienced

how terrible and sad Blanco’s past is. She lived with her mother and grandparents,

her father often to be away from home. The bullies started to bully her in the fifth

grade because of her kindness in befriending with a mentally challenged child.

The bullying was repeated until she switched school. In junior high school, she

has friends at first, but because of her kindness and her conscience she was getting

bullied again. Then in the senior high school the bullying continued. These

experiences had become a motivation for her to write her book and this book

continues to inspire people until today.


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APPENDICES

The cover of the original book Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s

Inspirational Story by Jodee Blanco.


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The translated version of the book Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s

Inspirational Story by Jodee Blanco in Bahasa Indonesia.


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