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F. Framework of Thinking
Structuralism in literature Thriller as a literary genre
Anti-conspiracy thriller
Harlan Coben’s The Stranger
The conventions of noir thriller
Having a flawed
protagonist Revealing the
critique of socio-political
milieu Focusing on
the characters’ conflicts
Employing the suspense-based
plot First person
point of view
Third person point of view
RQ 1 What are the conventions
of noir thriller employed in Harlan Coben’s The
Stranger? RQ 2
What are the conventions of point of view employed in
Harlan Coben’s noir thriller The Stranger
?
Noir thriller
Limiting information to create the tension.
Highlighting the irony of how the protagonist
view the world and conquer the obstacle.
Closely finding the protagonist’s motive
related to the crime committed.
subjective
omniscient limited
Using the subjective
point of view
Figure 1. Fra e ork of Thi ki g i The Co e tio s of Noir Thriller i Harla Cobe ’s The Stranger
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
A. Research Design
This research used qualitative research design. Qualitative research focuses on naturally approaching the phenomena within a particular context instead of
getting through some statistical procedures. Vanderstoep and Johnston 2009: 7 mentioned that qualitative research focuses on producing the textual description
from the research participant’s experience, so that the data taken are in the form of words or pictures rather than numerical.
As the data in qualitative research are not be in the form of statistical data, the methods of this study solve the actual problem by collecting, classifying,
analysing, and interpreting data. Vanderstoep and Johnston, 2009: 7. Thus, the researcher only describes or explains the phenomena found in the objects of the
study based on the core theory employed. Furthermore, content analysis is used to analyze the data. According to
Kippendorf in Denscombe, 2007: 237, content analysis is basically used to examine the ‘hidden’ aspects of what is being delivered through the written text.
There are ideas which are deeper than what the writer has consciously intended. The data are used to examine the phenomena in this study, those are: 1 the
conventions of noir thriller in Harlan Cobe n’s The Stranger and 2 the
conventions of point of view employed in the novel.
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B. The Data Type
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