about the tradition glamorous and making her become shopping addiction shopaholic.
She spent a lot of money and spent a limit from her credit card to take a devine silk blouse in the window of that ultra-trendy boutique, many shops which
she visits averyday, and buys clothes from many popular label like Armany, Millets, NK Malone, etc, and not just it, she always goes to save herself to popular
and glamorous places like; popular restaurant, popular footspa, popolar boutique, popular anything. And lately she has been chased by dismal letter from Visa and
the Endwick Bank letter with large red sums she can t bear to read and they are getting ever harder to ignore. She tries cutting back; she even tries making
more money. But none of her efforts succeeds. Her only consolation is to buy herself something
just a little something ...
1.2 The Problem of the Analysis
Trough this novel, the writer has some problems which needs to identify. The problems that the writer identified as having relation to:
1. is shopping addiction reflected in this novel? 2. What are the factor causes shopping addiction to Rebecca Bloomwood
in the novel.
1.3 The Objectives of the Analysis
The Objective of this thesis is to find out and clarify the intrinsic elements as portrayed in the novel Confensions Of A Shopaholic. the obfectives of this
analysis are:
1. To find the reflection of shopping addiction in the novel. 2. To find the factor that causes shopping addiction to Rebbeca Bloomwood
in the novel.
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1.4 The Scope of Analysis
The writer tries to limit scope of writing since literature has a wide field of shopping. I only discusses the main character only namely Rebecca Bloomwood
who suffers shopping addiction shoppaholic in the novel written by Shopie Kinsela A Confessins of a shoppaholic.
1.5 The Significance of the Analysis
The significance of this analysis is to enrich literary studies, especially in literature through novel as one genres of it besides drama and poetry. I hope this
analysis could become reference for further study of literary works whatever forms they will be.
1.6 The Review of Related Literature
In supporting the data of the analysis, I get some several books have been related to the analysis. Some of them can be mentioned as follow:
1. Theory of Literature by Rene Wellek and Austin Warren 1963 This book provides same explanations about approaches in analyzing a
literary work. This book is very useful because in analyzing Confensions Of A Shopaholic , the writer uses approach which is
introduced by Rene Wellek. Moreover, based on this book the writer gets and understanding about intrinsic approach and about literature
generally. 2. Dudek, Louis. 1974 Paper delivered before the Canadian Council
of Teacher of English, Saskaton, Saskatchewan http: www. Google.com
This paper tells about psychology of literature. This paper helps me to understand the psychology literature in completing my thesis
about this novel.
3. Kinsella, Sophie. 2009. Confessions of a Shopaholic. This book has been the main source for me to write the thesis.
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CHAPTER II METHOD OF ANALYSIS
