BULLYING AS SOCIAL PHENOMENA IN STARGIRL BY JERRY SPINELLI AND UNFRIEND YOU: MASIHKAH KAU TEMANKU? BY DYAH RINNI (A COMPARATIVE STUDY) = BULLYING AS SOCIAL PHENOMENA IN STARGIRL BY JERRY SPINELLI AND UNFRIEND YOU: MASIHKAH KAU TEMANKU? BY DYAH RINNI (A COMPARATIVE STUDY)

ANDI ELSA FADHILAH SAKTI. Bullying as Social Phenomena in Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli and Unfriend You: Masihkah Kau Temanku? by Dyah Rinni (A Comparative Study) (supervised by: Fathu Rahman, Amir Pattu, and Harlinah Sahib). This research aims to reveal (1) describe the types of bullying as presented in Stargirl and Unfriend You: Masihkah Kau Temanku?; (2) identify the reasons why people tend to bully others as depicted in the novels Stargirl and Unfriend You: Masihkah Kau Temanku?; (3) revealing the impact of bullying as found in Stargirl and Unfriend You: Masihkah Kau Temanku?; (4) distinguishing differences in the presentation of bullying in the two novels. This research uses a qualitative descriptive method with the technique of reading the two novels and finding quotes that contain types of bullying in the two novels. Researcher collected quotes containing common types of bullying such as verbal, social and physical bullying. Some quotes and dialogues that contain bullying will be marked and then analyzed using definitions of each type of bullying and then categorized into a whole. The approach used is a sociological approach. The results of the research show that verbal and social bullying often occurs in today's society. Where the victim is a new student at school, or even at an agency. Verbal and social bullying is more popular with perpetrators because they think that this type of bullying does not involve physical contact, but in reality, verbal and social bullying slowly damages the mentality of the victim of bullying. As many as 52.38% of the total 100% of social bullying occurred which was seen in the Stargirl novel, and in the novel Unfriend You: Masihkah Kau Temanku? as much as 41.02% of the total 100% verbal bullying occurred. This is the dominant amount of bullying that occurs in each of the two novels. From this research, researcher designed a model called ELSAFS (Model to Prevent Bullying). The ELSAFS model has components, Empathetic, Lovely, Safe, Acceptable, Forgiveness, and Sorry (ELSAFS), to be used as a reference to prevent bullying.