Oliver Blue’s Courage Building as a Character Development in Morgan Rice’s The Magic Factory

Character development often occurs in a fictional story and courage building is one of the reasons for the character development. This research aims to describe the courage building which Oliver Blue develops and the reasons for his courage building based on his past experiences and difficulties in Morgan Rice’s The Magic Factory. The theory is based on Alfred Adler’s individual psychology. The theory affirms how a person’s feeling of inferiority will become superior and how human is seen as a whole unity. In this theory, humans are seen to have his own ability to choose and be responsible of his own choices. This research will be applying qualitative method and contextual method as it approaches the psychological side of the character in the novel. The result will show that the constant past experiences and difficulties which Oliver Blue has gone through builds the courage inside him, and thus it becomes the reason for his character development. Thus, it shows that it is possible for courage building to develop someone’s character.