Thus, it combines the Bible with other literary work that does not depend upon the Bible.
The last way employs Bible and Its contexts. This way relates a story in a bible to the historical and cultural climate of place or setting in the Bible, for example Israel.
We may think that this analysis is put into its present cultural, context, ancient, or modern. In other words, it is a taking off point for a discussion of its issues.
2.2 Theoretical Framework
In this study, I try to find out the biblical values that are conveyed through the characters in Albom’s The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Here, the theory of
literature, theory on value, and the relationship of Bible and literature will be used. In the literary theories, I use the theory of character and characterization to
reveal the characters and to describe and to explore their actions, outlook, impression, and dialogues. The critical approach used in this study as the consideration for the
writer to decide the best approach for this study is The Christian Approach. The theory of value and the relationship of Bible and literature are used to
show that literary works also contain biblical values that can be conveyed to the readers, and to find out that actually there is a relationship between literary works and
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter describes the methodology used in conducting this study. This part is divided into three main settings; they are subject matter, approach of the stud y, and
method of the study. The first part, subject matter, explains the subject, data used in studying the work of literature, and the description of the work analyzed. The second
part, approach of the stud y, discusses the approach used in analyzing the novel and the reasons of using that approach. The last part is method of the study. This part discusses
the procedures taken in analyzing the work. This section also explain a series of steps that is used in conducting this study.
3.1 Subject Matter
The subject matter of this study is a novel entitled The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom. This novel was published in 2003 and printed in New
York, The United States of America by Hyperion. This novel consists of 196 pages, in 13 chapters. The story begins in the end, it means that the story starts with the death of
the main character, and develops after the death of the main character. In some parts of the chapters, the author brings the readers to several birthdays
of the main character when he was alive, begins when he was born up to his 82
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birthday as the flashback of his life. Each birthday that is described will give indirect clues to the reader in order to know the relationships among each character and the
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