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whole story in the novel. The analysis section, I use some theories: theories of critical approach and theories of motivation.
The theory of psychological approach is used as a tool to analyze the main character. The theory of psychology that I employ to analyze the motivation of
Hope Donahue is motivation theory developed by Abraham Maslow. This theory is also called theory of hierarchy needs. This theory will help me to analyze all the
needs of Hope Donahue that motivate her to do plastic surgery then divide them into each level in the hierarchy needs.
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CHAPTER 3 METHODOLOGY
This chapter is divided into three parts. They are object of the study, approaches, and procedures. The first part, where I explain the focus of the study,
is called object of the study. The second part explains the approach that I use in conducting and analyzing this study. The last part is procedures which discusses
the steps in analyzing problem formulation.
3.1 Object of the Study
This research uses a literary work as the subject of the study. This thesis deals with one kind of literary work, a novel, as the object of the study. The novel
that is analyzed in this thesis is entitled Beautiful Stranger. Beautiful Stranger was published by Gotham on August 18, 2005. It consists of 304 pages in 28 chapters.
This is the first and the only novel written by Hope Donahue. Beautiful Stranger is a gloomy and disturbing novel, and a true story about
how society and environment can shape the suffering of a person. The story is about how a dysfunctional family and society push Donahue to do a plastic
surgery at an early age. This novel is about a woman named Hope Donahue. She is the only child
of a rich bank chairman and a granddaughter of a famous doctor of international acclaim. She grows up and lives in a tiny enclave of Los Angeles called Hancock
Part, an area which is famous because of its stately mansions and old-money
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families. She is intelligent, witty, and well traveled. She studies in the best private schools. She can buy anything she wants without working hard to get it. She is
quite pretty with her five-feet-eight-inches tall, model’s built that is slim and tall, blonde hair, and green eyes. Many people think that she is a lucky woman. In fact
she is not happy and satisfied with her life. She wants something in her life, but she cannot get it. Some of her needs cannot be fulfilled. Then she does some
plastic surgery to make herself more beautiful than before, even though she is pretty enough.
3.2 Approach of the Study
I use the psychological approach presented by Rohrberger and Woods for analyzing this novel. I choose the psychological approach because I need this
approach to make an analysis of the human motivation in carrying out some actions.
Rohrberger and Woods said that the psychological approach involves the effort to locate and demonstrate certain current patterns. This approach is used to
explain human’s motivation, personality, behavior, and needs patterns written in literary works 1971:13.
3.3 Procedures of the Study
The method of this study was library research. It means the data and information that I used in the analysis were taken from books on literature that
were provided in the library.
