When Desperate and Guilty Feeling Destroy Humans’ Life in And The Mountains Echoed By Khaled Hosseini HIQMA NUR AGUSTINA Abstract - Born as humans we can’t avoid facing many problems as God given as the testing to examine every creator in the world. Since that, many writers interest to take humans problems as the theme for their writings. One of them is Khaled Hosseini, he is included one of the new writers which is succeded to reveal the complicated conflict inside human especially people in Afghanistan. This research tries to explore the prominent problem in his third novel “And the Mountains Echoed” that is connected with guilty and desperacte covering the characters in the story. To get deep understanding upon those problems, the writer tries to analyze it in this research by close reading and doing some library researches. The method of this research is by doing descriptive analysis. This research uses psychological theory in analyzing the characters personality. The findings is the characters in the story are really influenced by their guilty and desperate feeling cause they separated by his beloved sister, daughter and niece named Pari. The poverty and lack of supporting good food caused the father took that decision that was selling his daughter to one rich family to save the other members of the family. This article tries to explore another conflict facing by people in Afghanistan, a country which is haunted by many conflicts because of invasion, war and brutality of rezim. Keywords: afghanistan, conflict, desperate and guilty feeling I. INTRODUCTION Afghanistan is a country full with conflicts which become terror for people there. This country never release to get their freedom since the invasion of Soviet, the brotherhood war among Mujahedeen and finally the presence of the strict rules of Taliban. All of these cruel actions influence people aspects in many life. They are faced by complicated situations that make their efforts are useless since the democracy does not take side in the civil society side. Many people are forced to leave their beloved country because of the cruelty, the disaster and the bruality done by the powerful rezim. It arose the great problem for the citizen especially the poor family. The cruelty of rezim and war often spark the emergence of social and economic problems such as poverty, facilities and infrastructures which are broken by the bomb, grenade and other explosion materials. Khaled Hosseini was also a part of Afghan people before his family and he moved to French to follow the job of his father as a diplomat. Trying to return after his duty is finished, but the invasion of Soviet make Afghanistan was scafu. The people were scattered and they could not go back to their homeland. Because of that incident, they tried to ask the political asylum from the United States of America. His passion of writing is influenced by his hobby that is reading many books in Farsi or Dari language then develop into English. All of his experience in the past time brought in his present life. It often happened to those people who became the immigrant in other countries. The worse, sadness, happy and memorable experience and moment blended and become the private part of immigrants that also happened in Hosseini’s soul and life. This novel tells the story of human personality issues related to internal conflicts in the past that subsequently become a burden for them. Therefore we need a discussion relating to aspects of personality which correlates with the science of psychology. Personality psychology is the study of human personality psychology with the object of study that is the factors that influence human behavior. In personality psychology, it studied the link between memory or observation with the development, the link between observation and adjustment to the individual, and so on. The first target of personality psychology is to obtain information about human behavior. Works of literature, history, and religion can provide valuable information about human behavior (Koswara, 1991: 4). The second target, personality psychology encourages individuals to be able to live full and satisfying. And third, the goal is for the individual is able to develop all their potential optimally through psychological environment changes. The first function of personality psychology is descriptive function. It describes and organizes human behavior or events experienced by individuals systematically. The second function is predictive function. Studies should also be able to predict behavior, events, or as a result of which has not yet appeared on the individual. The following is a discussion of a study evaluating the third Khaled Hosseini's novel, And the Mountains Echoed. II. GUILTY AND DESPERATE IN AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED And the Mountain Echoed (Riverhead Books: 2013) as the third novel of Khaled Hosseini is still becoming the magnet for the readers around the world. It is because the theme of the novel reveals about humanity problems. Sins and desperate always come and go upon people’s life. This novel is still talking about conflict upon humans especially psychological conflicts, that is people in Afghanistan. There are people who can easily forget the sins committed, but some are not being managed to forget the sins that haunt a person's life until decades later. According to the science of HiqmaNurAgustina, PhD Student, University of Islamic Syekh-Yusuf (UNIS), Tangerang, Indonesia International Journal of Humanities and Management Sciences (IJHMS) Volume 4, Issue 2 (2016) ISSN 2320–4044 (Online) 199