information from these books are marked and underlined so that it can be used to support the analysis of this thesis, these books finally also used as the references for
this thesis.
3.2 Data Selecting
When all the data and information related to the topic of this thesis were collected, then they were selected to the most significant data that would be used in
the process of finishing this thesis. In this step, the criminal acts committed by the characters that found as the primary data for this thesis were classified according to
the characteristics of psychopath, so that the data analysis in this thesis will be easier to describe. Meanwhile, the data and information found from the related books will
be drawn to this thesis in order to support the analysis in this thesis.
3.3 Data Analysis
The data analysis was applied when all the primary data from the novel had collected and selected. The data from the novel are in a form of written text which
concern about the characteristics of psychopath found through the characters that have been chosen to the most significant data, then the data will be interpreted and to
be brought into this thesis as the subject matter of the analysis, that is the characters as the psychopath found from the novel. Next the analysis will be stated by
explaining the characteristics of psychopath of the characters based on the definition and the criminal acts that committed by the characters which reflected in Caroline
Roberts’ The Lost Girl.
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3.4 Method
In writing and analyzing the data in this thesis, I used the descriptive qualitative method in order to understand how and why something is happened.
Qualitative research results the descriptive data and consist of the explanation about variable which examined by giving the explanation from another reference.
W. Lawrence Neuman 1997:331 said that there are six characteristics of a qualitative style research they are:
1. Importance of the context, it is emphasized for understanding the social world. The researchers hold the meaning of a social action or statement
depends, in an important way, on the context in which it appears. When a researcher removes an event, social action, answer to a question, or
conversation from the social context in which it appears, or ignores the context, social meaning and significance are distorted.
2. The case study method, the researcher may use a case study approach. He or she might gather a large amount of information on one or few cases,
go into greater depth, and get more details on the cases being examined. 3. The researcher’s integrity, qualitative researchers ensure that their
research accurately reflects the evidence and have checks on their evidence.
4. Grounded theory, a qualitative researcher begins with a research question and little else. Theory develops during the data collection process. This
more inductive method means that theory is built from data or grounded in the data.
5. Process, qualitative researchers look at the sequence of events and pay attention to what happens first, second, third, and so on. Because
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qualitative researchers examine the same case or set of cases over time, they can see an issue evolve, a conflict emerge, or a social relationship
develop. The reseacher can detect process and casual relations. 6. Interpretations, the data are in the form of words, including quotes or
descriptions of particular events. The researcher interprets data by giving them meaning, translating them, or making them understandable.
Moreover, library research and internet research are applied to support the method. Firstly, the source data, the novel of The Lost Girl by Caroline Roberts, is
read for several times to find out problems which are faced by the characters in the story. Then, by using the principles of literary psychology and the extrinsic approach
which is explained before, the data will be selected before it is interpreted and analyzed. So, the conclusion of the data will be made to support the ideas of the
researcher. Researcher
Conclusion
Method: Descriptive Qualitative
Data Selected- Interpreted-
Analysis Data:
Characters and Quotation from the text
of the novel Source of Data:
The Lost Girl
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CHAPTER IV THE PSYCHOPATHS IN CAROLINE ROBERTS’ NOVEL THE LOST GIRL
4.1 Fred West’s Psychopathic Attitude
