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Their love story was almost perfect if it was not ended sadly. Their relationship was refused by Faisal’s mother, because she did not allow Faisal to marry a girl
who was not his family’s choice. Another reason was because Faisal’s mother had never heard Michelle’s family name before. Moreover, Michelle’s mother was an
American. The last girl was Famees, who came from a doctor family. She had a twin
sibling named Tamadur. Famees studied in the dentistry college. It could be said that she was the only one who married the man she loved, namely Nizar. But she
never left her friends alone, always helped her friends by solving their love and marriage problems.
B. Approach of the Study
To analyze the problem, I apply the socio;cultural approach. I use this approach because I want to identify the roles of family and women on Saudi
Arabia tradition of marriage in Riyadh society’s point of views. The novel, Girls of Riyadh, took place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The novel
had rich of cultural and life values. The socio;cultural approach helped me in gathering some information and secondary data about the roles of family and
women on marriage tradition in the society’s point of views. The socio;cultural approach also helped me to analyze the fundamental views of Riyadh society in
viewing marriage conflicts that used to happen.
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C. Method of the Study
The main source of this study was a novel written by Rajaa Alsanea, Girls of Riyadh. I also used library study in this study in order to gather the references
to support the analysis. The primary source that used for the analysis was the novel Girls of Riyadh written by Rajaa Alsanea. From this novel, I dig out the
roles of family and women on Saudi Arabia tradition of marriage. The secondary sources were taken from some references related to the
discussion topic. The references were taken from books related to the theories and approach that used to analyze this study. The references were also taken from
articles or website information available in the online source. To conduct this study, there were some steps that are taken. The first step
was comprehensively reading the novel, Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea. By reading it, I tried to find out the main ideas of the novel and analyze the points
that can be explored for this study. After finding out the topic that would be discussed further, I began to formulate the research question of this study. The
research question would be used as the writing guidelines. The third step was collecting information that will be used as secondary
sources. The secondary sources were found in the books, online sources, and encyclopaedias. The information which had been gathered was related to the
author, Rajaa Alsanea, about the novel Girls of Riyadh, and the tradition and culture of marriage in Saudi Arabia.
After getting the important points from the references, I began the analysis by applying the socio;culture approach. Analyzing the roles of family and women
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on Saudi Arabia tradition of marriage in the novel Girls of Riyadh written by Rajaa Alsanea is my next step. The last step was drawing a conclusion based on
the finding.
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CHAPTER IV A ALYSIS
