A Self-Identity Crisis of a Young Adolescence Represented in Short Story Entitled "Belong to The Past"

Abstract

The study is entitled “A Self-Identity Crisis of Young Adolescence Represented in a Short Story Entitled Belong to The Past.” The study aims to portray the struggle of young adolescence experience a self-identity crisis. As young-adolescence face developmental challenges, they also in the process to find identity and role in the society. Often, they who unable to solve the problem, then, might caught in crisis and experience such behavioral problems. The story which entitled Belong to The Past shows how the main character, Annas, struggle with his appearance and his record in the past. Annas face challenges to socialize with people then end up in jail again. In this case, the research uses theories that explain social pressure and how identity crisis emerge such as psychosocial development. This study attempts to make awareness that people at any age can experience identity crisis as well as behavioral problem