Belongingness and Love needs Self-esteem needs
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New York. Paulo Coelho is a Brazilian author who likes to use his personal experience as the inspiration in writing a literary works.
Veronika Decides to Die, is one of Coelho’s novels that is written based on his personal experience when he was sent to a mental hospital by his parents for three
times because he wanted to be a writer. Besides Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho also wrote some other famous novels such as The Alchemist, The Pilgrimage,
Eleven Minutes, The Valkyries, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, the Fifth Mountain, and Warrior of the Light: A Manual.
Coelho’s Veronika Decides to Die is a novel which tells a story of a journey of life of a young Slovenian woman called Veronika. Veronika is the main character
of this novel. The author of this novel described that Veronika was 24-year-old when she decided to commit suicide on November 11, 1997 by taking four packs of
sleeping pills. The authors’ description about Veronika’s age above shows that Veronika, as the main character of the novel, lived in the situation of what it is
described as a civil war when the dissolution of Yugoslavia in the early-to-mid 1990’s. As the consequences of this civil war, thousands of people, soldiers and
civilians were killed. This is the social and political context of Coelho’s Veronika Decides to Die.
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CHAPTER III
METHODOLOGY
This chapter presents the methods of the study to solve the problems formulated in chapter I. This chapter consists of three main points to discuss. The first
point is about the object of this study, which provides the information related to the novel. The second point is approach of the study, which presents the information
about the approach used in analyzing the novel. The last point is the method of the study, which informs the steps in conducting this study.