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3.2 Source of Data
3.2.1. Subject Research
The subject of research of this thesis is “Into The Wild” novel. The novel was written by Jon Krakauer and published in 1996 with 215 pages. The secondary data
areother reference books used by the writer to support the subject of research, which are books about the psychology of literature theory, the human personality, and other
books that support this research, which are used by using psychology of literature approach.
3.2.2. Object Research
The object of study in this thesis is the characters personality and the factors that influence the personality of the main character psychologically from “Into The
Wild” novel. Thematerial object that is investigated or discussed is the main
character itself. Formal objects refer to specific aspects of the material object are the
behaviour, human culture, social life, and so on. Within this study, the formal object is experienced by the main characters personality, factors that affect the personality
of the main character and inner conflict and the factors that influence the inner conflict experienced by the main character.
3.3 Data Collecting Method
The primary source of the data is the novel itself and the data are the sentence in the novel that related to the problems. There are some steps that the writer used in
doing the analysis. Firstly, the source data is taken from Jon Krakauer’s Into The Wild
and read the novel to get better understanding about it. Secondly, the important
21 information related to the factors that make the main character become an Idealist are
chosen and collected. Thirdly, further information about all those things above are found out from other sources such as novels, internet and so forth.
3.4 Data Analyzing Procedure
After collecting all the data, the next step is to analyze all those selected data to prove what are written in the objective of this thesis and finally the writer can
draw the conclusion for this thesis. The descriptive method is applied in analyzing the data. Descriptive method is used to describe the main data from the novel. Those
main data are presented in the form of quotation to prove the analysis.
3.5 Presentation of Data
Presentation of data is presenting the data that have been gathered from the data analyzing. The presentation of data is related with several examples of events
that occur in line with quotations related to the factors of the main character to become an Idealist
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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS
After reading the novel, the writer got that the novel tells a story about a young man’s way of life and psychology that fulfilled with rejection and madness
that he got from everywhere, with society, especially his family and drive him into an idealistic point of view although his family really loved him then choose to
abandon everything that he had and start his journey into the wild to fulfill his emotions.
In this chapter the writer will discuss thepersonality of the main character, Christopher McCandless, and analyze the factors of the main character to become an
Idealist in “Into The Wild” novel. In the analysis phase, the analysis will be arranged into several sections in whicheach section will be attached quotations in accordance
to the theory as well as the elaboration of these quotations. The novel is written from the perspective of Jon Krakauer, the author, he
investigate the early life of chris, and not just like the other autobiography, Krakauer meets directly with those people who haddirect contact withchrisonits way toAlaska,
he insertstories andopinion onChrisin the book,He
translatedeverysituationexperienced by Chrisfromthe point of view ofan adventurer. Helpful enough forthe readers tounderstandwhatChris doinginAlaska.
This analysis used the theory of Convergence, this theory by William Stern states that the establishment or development of personality of a person is determined
by innate and also the surrounding environment factors. this theory is chosen due to
23 the problem of the study which has personality discussions and the factors that affect
it, Theory of Convergence is used in analyzing the conflict and factors that affect the main character’s personality.
4.1 Character
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