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2.9. Style
Style refers to the way or manner an individual writer writes. Each writer has his own style. Weisman defines ―Style is the way a person puts words
together into sentences, arranges sentences into paragraph, and groups of paragraphs to make a piece of writ
ing express his thoughts clearly,‖ 1980, p: 25. Nida and Taber define style, ―the patterning of choices made by a particular
author within the resource and limitation of the language and of the literary genre he is working. It is his style which gives to a text its uniqueness and which relates
the text personally to its author ‖ 1969, p: 207.
A writer expresses his emotions, attitudes, and aesthetics through his choice of lexical items and grammatical forms. The writer hopes that his
expressive words or sentences bring an effect to the readers and then the readers get certain impression from them.
2.10. About the Novel
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows is the seventh book of Harry Potter’s novel that is written by J. K. Rowling. The book was released on 21 July
2007, ending the series that began in 1997 with the publication of
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
. It was published in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury Publishing, in the United States by Scholastic, in Canada by
Raincoast Books, and in Australia and New Zealand by Allen Unwin. Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows that is released globally in ninety-
three countries broke sales records as the fastest-selling book. It sold 15 million
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copies in the first day following its release, including more than 11 million in the U.S. and U.K. alone. The previous record, nine million in its first day, had been
held by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The novel has also been translated into numerous languages, including Ukrainian, Swedish, Polish, Hindi
and Indonesian.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1. Type of Research
In this study, the researcher used a descriptive qualitative method which is defined by Soetrisno Hadi that in descriptive method, the researcher tries to
collect data, analyze data, and to draw conclusion without formulating a hypothesis 1984, p: 3. In descriptive method, the researcher described the object
of the study without generalizing the result of the study. Bell states ―some qualitative studies start without a hypothesis or
objectives being specified‖ 1993, p: 19. Meanwhile, Cresswell states ―qualitative research is descriptive in that the researcher is interested in process,
meaning and understanding gained through words or picture‖ 1994, p: 145. Qualitative method describes phenomena in words instead of numbers or
measures.
3.2. Data and Source of Data
Arikunto states, ―Yang dimaksud dengan sumber data dalam penelitian adalah subyek dari mana data diperoleh‖ 1987, p: 162. Meanwhile, according to
Djajasudarma, ―The data can be obtained from scripts, interviews, photography,
videotapes, personal documents, etc‖ 1993, p: 15. The source of data here constitutes a subject from which all the data are obtained.
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