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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter consists of three parts. The first part is the Object of the study, which concerns the subject of this literary study. This part I discuss about
Bernhard Schlink’s novel The Reader. In the second part, I discuss The Approach of the study. The third part is The Method of the study. In this part I discuss all the
processes that I have taken from the beginning until the end in analyzing Bernhard Schlink’s novel The Reader.
3.1 Object of the study
The object of the study is Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader. This book is an English version published by Vintage International in New York, from German
original version Der Vorleser that was published in Germany in 1995. The novel consists of 218 pages of three parts; first part consists of 17 chapters and second
part consists of 17 chapters and third part consists of 12 chapters. It deals with the difficulties which subsequent generations have in comprehending the Holocaust;
specifically, whether a sense of its origins and magnitude can be adequately conveyed solely through written and oral media. This question is increasingly at
the center of Holocaust literature in the late 20th and early 21st century, as the victims and witnesses of the Holocaust die and its living memory begins to fade.
In this novel Schlink’s draws the line between the characters in the story toward the situation in Germany at that time. Schlink’s tries to make a link between the
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novel and the Nazi’s situation in German, through a very romantic, love and struggle story. Hanna plays an important role in which she tries to escape from her
incapability of being illiterate to reach her best life. Struggle and love of a middle- aged woman named Hanna Schmitz who is searching for meaning in her life. In
the story, Hanna is a secondary character who is being retold by the main character, Michael Berg the 18 year old boy. Nevertheless, Hanna is an example
of a rounded character that plays big parts in the story.
3.2 Approach of the study
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