town. Until his death, Hassan still cares and thinks about Amir and is never angry with him. He keeps his friendship.
I would like to discuss three things in this novel. First, I identified the description of Amir and Hassan’s characters. Second, I discuss why Hassan still
regards Amir as his best friend after receiving some betrayal. Third, is about how Hassan maintains his friendship with Amir till the end of his life.
3.2 Approaches
A certain approach is employed in analyzing a literary work to find out some aspects to discuss the study. It gives the writer background knowledge and helps to
develop the analysis based on the problem formulation. In this study I will apply the psychological approach in the analysis to discuss the issue stated in the problem
formulated. According to Rohrberger and Woods 12 the psychological approach tries to
locate and demonstrate certain recurrent patterns from the knowledge of psychology. Since the presence of friendship, which is the main topic in this study, is related to
psychological aspects of human beings, the psychological approach is suitably employed in this study. This is to explain human motivation, personality, behavior or
emotion. Since friendship deals with emotion and motivation the use of psychological approach is suitable in discussing the problem formulation.
3.3 Procedure
There were some steps in analyzing this novel. The first step was reading the novel for several times. In the first reading, I read the novel entirely to know how the
story went till the end. At the next reading, I focused my attention on Hassan’s character and every detail of him.
The second step was focusing my attention on reading about Hassan in the novel, taking some notes and some important points were highlighted. I obtained some
information about Hassan both from direct comments and description given by the author, from what another character thought about Hassan, also from his dialog. I used
all information about Hassan in my analysis to answer the first problem formulation that is how Hassan and Amir are described in the novel. Then, to answer the second
problem formulation, I made use of marks, notes, and highlighted parts which I made, concerning the character’s dialog, behaviors and actions. I observed those problems by
looking at direct description as well as indirect description of him. Third, I looked for literary books that are related to my study and read them.
Books about theory on literature and important points to consider about literature absorbed most of my attention. I read those books in order to stay in line on literature
frame. Fourth, I focused my analysis on the character of the novel by making use of
psychological approach. I employed the bigger portion of psychological approach to analyze the second question in the problem formulation. In answering the first
problem formulation I gathered information from the novel; from the author’s description. In answering the second question, I focused on his motivation which
serves as a basis for his action which regards Amir as his best friend till the end of his life. Then, I analyzed how he maintains his friendship after all the betrayal that he
receives. Fifth, I looked for books about psychology especially on motivation. I read
those books since in understanding human actions, thoughts and feelings psychological sides will give a clear and better understanding. Further more, every
