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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter discusses the methodology, which are used to conduct this study. Those are object of the study, approach of the study and method of the
study. Object of the study contains the description of the work that is going to be analyzed along with its physical description. Approach of the study deals with
approaches, which are employed in the analysis. Meanwhile, method of the study explains the procedures and steps being used to analyze the study.
A. Object of The Study
The object of the study in this work is a novel entitled My Sister’s Keeper, written by Jodi Picoult in 2004. My Sister’s Keeper is one of Jodi’s famous works
in spite of her other great works such as Mercy, The Pact, Keeping Faith, Plain Truth, Salem Falls, Perfect Match, Second Glance, Vanishing Acts
and The Tenth Circle
. Jodi Picoult, who is the New York Times bestselling author, is known for writing controversial and ethical issue novels. The first edition of My Sister’s
Keeper was published in Great Britain in 2004 by Hodder and Stoughton. This
novel consists of 407 pages. It is written in first person by all characters. My Sister’s Keeper
traces the story of a thirteen-year old girl named Anna who sues her parents to get medical emancipation. The main problem of this novel
is whether Anna should be medically emancipated for rights towards her own body. The root of the problem begins when her elder sister, Kate, suffers from
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Leukemia illness since she is two years old. Anna’s parents then made a plan to create an embryo that will be a perfect match donation for Kate and that will be
Anna. At first, Anna is only needed to donate her umbilical cord blood, but the next following years she has to donate platelets, bone marrow, and finally she has
to donate one of her kidneys. Surprisingly, she rejects to donate her kidney. She does not want to be her sister’s organ donor anymore. However, her parents do
not agree on her decision. That is why she takes the case into the family court by hiring a lawyer to sue her parents for medical emancipation.
B. Approach of the Study
Some approaches are applied to analyze literary work. Rohrberger and Woods 8 propose five aprroaches in literature. However, this study applies
psychological approach. This study focuses on Anna’s motivation to stop her duty to be an organ
donor for her sister. She wants to get the right on her own body. This study explores Anna’s personality and motivation, which includes in the psychological
cases. Since this study focuses on the psychological case, the most suitable approach is psychological approach. Psychological approach can be implemented
in studying human behavior, human personality and human mental development. Therefore, psychological approach can be used to analyze Anna’s personality and
motivation.
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C. Method of the Study
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