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this approach help me to understand the resolution toward the conflict. The character’s conflict includes their social life and relationship with people around
them and resolves the conflict. When we use the approach, the main character was show up and must be analyze from the personality point of view. The character’s
behavior, the ways of thinking and all the appearances must be noticed. By using Perrine’s approach, I can understand the conflict that the character faces and the
conflict resolution that she takes. The psychological approach, therefore, is the most suitable one, as it helps me to
understand the character’s personality, also helps me to find out the conflicts that the main character faces. The psychological approach gives explanation and descriptions
why the main character has conflicts with the certain people and why she solves those conflicts in those ways.
3.3 Methods of the study
The research conducted was a library research. It means that the main formula, which I used to collect the data, by reading and writing notes from the novel that
helped me analyzed the novel easily. The following are the steps of analyzing the novel and to answer the problems of the study.
First, I chose this novel as the subject to analyze because the conflicts that the author created were interesting. The work of John Grisham The Pelican Brief was
chosen because the atmosphere was very excited. It concerned the political problem. Second, I began reading the novel The Pelican Brief. By reading the novel, I
could find the interesting elements in the novel to analyze. The main character Darby
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Shaw was an interesting character and I was also interested in analyzing her problems, and how she solved the problem. The first part was ended with some
formulated questions in the chapter 1. Third, I gathered some related and supporting data about the character of the
story and human psychology. The data were gathered. Some theories related to the study were reviewed. To complete the study, it required a lot of thoughts, reference
books and notes. Forth, I analyzed the formulated problems as same as the theoretical framework.
Finally, the study ended with the conclusion. In the last part of this study, I prepared suggestions related to the teaching-learning activities using literary works.
