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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter delivers three sections to discuss. They are object of the study, approach of the study, and the method of the study. The object of the study
discusses the physical description of the literary work studied, Ghost Girl. The physical description of the novel includes the author, the publisher, the year of
publication, and edition. Besides, this section also presents the special record of the work like award, cinematizing production and performing arts, and the
influence of this novel. Further, first section also presents what the work is generally about. Next, the approach of study section discusses the approach used
in analyzing the work and the reason of the application of the approach. The last section, method of the study, describes the procedures of the analysis and some
steps used in the analysis.
A. Object of the Study
The object of the study is a novel entitled Ghost Girl. This novel was written by Victoria Lynn Hayden, known as Torey L. Hayden. It was published by
Avon Books in 1991 in New York. The author, Torey Hayden, was born on 21 May 1951 in Livingston, Montana, USA. She graduated from Billings Senior
High School, Montana in 1969 and finished her bachelor of arts at Whitman College, Washington biologychemistry in 1973 but she was more interested in
21 dealing with children with special needs and finally she got her Master Degree of
special needs at Montana States University in 1975. She had many experiences in educationpsychology such as Title III
special education
auxiliary in
1969-1972, Title
III special
education teacherlearning support person in 1973-1974, regular education teacher in 1974,
private clinical therapy in 1975-1976, special education teacher in 1976-1977 and etc. Besides, she had also worked as volunteer like consultant with autism unit in
1981-1983, counselor with North Wales Childline in 1987-1991, president of North Wales Childline in 1988-1989, counselor with Samaritans in 1996-1998
and many others. Torey’s first published book was based on her private notes about her student entitled One Child and it became a world best-selling book and
was translated into many languages. Since that, Torey actively wrote many books with same genre such as Somebody Else’s Kids 1982, Murphy’s Boy 1983, The
Sunflower Forest 1984, Just Another Kid 1988, Ghost Girl 1991 and many
others. Novel Ghost Girl consists of 419 pages and it is divided into 27 chapters. Most of the chapters in the novel are full of narration from the teacher’s point of
view and there are some dialogues between the characters. The novel Ghost Girl tells about a psychologist who firstly worked in a
clinic with some psychiatrists and psychologist with ability to deal with some children with special needs. Then, she moved to a little town named Peril. In Peril,
she worked as a teacher for a class with four students with special needs. There were Reuben who had an autistic disorder, Philip who was premature-born from a
drug user, Jeremiah who was really emotional and shrewish, and Jadie who had a
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