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CHAPTER III METHODS OF INVESTIGATION
3.1 Object of the Study
The object of the study is a novel entitled “Memoirs of a Geisha” which is written by Arthur Golden. There is one version of this novel, in English but there is also
translate into Indonesian language. I use English version novel consists of 35 chapters and 503 pages. This novel first published under International and Pan-
American Copyright Convention, by Vintage Book, U.S. adivision of Randon House ,Inc., N.Y. To support my analysis I also use a novel in Indonesian version
205 pages,35 chapters, this book is published by PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama, Jakarta, Indonesia. Besides, I also use the movie track in Compact Disc 2 hours
duration to compare the content of novel and in the Compact Disc and make clear in analyzing my project.
3.2 Procedures of Collecting the Data
The procedures of collecting data in this study is divided into several steps. They are reading the novel comprehensively, and then I identify the overall data,
simplifying, and classifying into two appendices. The next is inventorising. After the identified quotations are collected, the next step is inventorying them, by using
the table. The table consists of the data that has been identified before as follow;
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quotation usedsentence
After the identified quotations are inventorised in the form of a table like above, the procedure is simplifying. In this step, the inventorised data or
quotations from the novel are being simplified since not all of the quotations or data will be used. Only the quotations or data that support the analysis will be
used, because there are a lot of quotations used from the novel which cannot be wrote all. Then the last step is classifying. In this final step the simplified
quotations are classified according to the research problems. Every problem will have its own quotations that describe the problem.
3.3 Quotations
I quote some sentences, utterances, situational events and dialogues of the novel as the main quotation. From those I can make a list of some examples paragraphs
supported the analysis in appendix 1 to answer the first problem. I used examples into some lists of quotations used in the analysis in appendix 2 to
answer the second and third problems.
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3.4 Technique of the Analysis
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