Object of the Study Approach of the Study

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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

A. Object of the Study

The literary work that analyzed in this undergraduate thesis is a novel by Jodi Picoult entitled Nineteenth Minutes. The Novel was published by Atria Book, New York in 2007. This Novel consists of 642 pages, 2 parts, and 16 chapters. The author of this novel got best seller in most of her novels, for example, My Sister’s Keeper. Nineteen Minutes is a novel about story about children in adolescence era. In this story there are many characters here. Josie Cormier and Alex Cormier are the main character on this novel, Josie Cormier is a high school student and Alex Cormier is her mother, she is a new superior judge in New Hampshire. The main theme of this novel is about the relationship between a mother and her children, Alex Cormier is representing parent and Josie Cormier represent children. The story begins when Alex Cormier has relationship with Logan. One day Alex Cormier is pregnant and following prenatal class, in this prenatal class Alex Cormier begin to know about Lacy Houghton, Lacy Houghton is a mother of Peter Houghton. Peter Houghton is Josie Cormier best friend when she was child. In this story, Lacy and Peter Houghton have important role. It is because they are affecting the parenting style changes of Alex Cormier through Josie Cormier. The changes of Alex Cormier’s parenting style has important effect in this story because of that things influence the story role.

B. Approach of the Study

The approach which is appropriate to be used in analyzing this novel is psychological approach because it deals with the individual psychology. Lewis Leary states that: A psychological approach is an approach that applies principles of modern psychology to characters or situations within a literary work or to the person who wrote that work 1976:57 Rohrberger also sums up that the psychological approach involves certain recurrent pattern. A psychological approach is an approach that applies principles of modern psychology to characters or situations within a literary work. As could be seen in the novel, there is a recurring pattern of parenting style which is appropriately observed using the theory of psychology. This research is concerning in the main characters in the novel. So, the writer applies principles of modern psychology to characters within a literary work to analyze the novel. In the novel, there is a recurring pattern of parenting style which is appropriately observed using the theory of psychology. The theory parenting style help the writer to observe and to answer the main problems formulated.

C. Method of Study