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aware of the Pelican Brief and decides to kill everyone who is involved in it to keep his plans secretly. He hires a killer Khamel, who also kills the two Supreme
Court Justices, to kill Darby Shaw and Thomas Callahan. Callahan is killed in a car explosion. Darby is very suspicious because she knows that Thomas murderers
follow her. Darby Shaw runs away and phones Gray Grantham, a reporter, to help her to
make a list of people who have contribute the President’s campaign three years before. The situation forces her to be a strong and tough woman, because if Darby is
not strong and clever the problem cannot be solved as soon as possible. She decides to ask Gray Grantham for help to go to the office of the Washington Post where Gray
writes his story. After that they drop the bomb and contact Denton Voyles, Mattieces lawyers and the White House. The White House decides to tell everyone what
Mattiece has done and denies any connection between Mattiece and the President. FBI Director helps Darby to leave the country unknown. Darby and Gray are safe at
the island of St.Thomas.
3.2 Approach
In analyzing this novel, I used the characterization approach that is suitable to the topic. In this thesis, I want to find out how Darby is described in the novel and what
conflict that she faced during her life as the author of a brief. In this study I will use the theory of conflict by Perrine 1974, 44 that describes
conflict as “a clash of action, ideas, desire, or wills between two individuals or people in the society that can include, physical, mental, emotional, or moral. That is
appropriate because it explores character and the problem that faces in the story and
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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
