This study aims at analyzing the personal development of Kathy’s character in Never Let Me Go novel using Bildungsroman theory. This study focuses on explaining and analyzing how the Bildungsroman Characteristics found in Kathy’s character, Children's Developmental Stages of Kathy, and the Bildungsroman’s personal development of Kathy as the main character.
This study used a descriptive qualitative method. The data were taken from reading a novel. Some steps were used to collect the data were reading a novel, identifying the data, classifying the data, and reducing the data.
This study finds the Bildungsroman’s personal development of the main character Kathy. Based on the references used in this study, Kathy has all the Bildungsroman characteristics, they are: the background of the place, an orphan, institutionalized education, the conflicts, leaves home to go on a journey, seeking relationship, the professional career, resists the trial by love, passes through moment pain in life, and the ordeal by society. As she has grown, she has also passed the children's developmental stages: Play age, school age, adolescence, and young adult. Kathy finally becomes a mature person and the Bildungsroman personal development includes: Selfconsciousness, the changes, the wholeness, the juxtaposition, and the complete formation.
Keywords: Bildungsroman, Personal Development, Children Development, Never Let Me Go.