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families. She is intelligent, witty, and well traveled. She studies in the best private schools. She can buy anything she wants without working hard to get it. She is
quite pretty with her five-feet-eight-inches tall, model’s built that is slim and tall, blonde hair, and green eyes. Many people think that she is a lucky woman. In fact
she is not happy and satisfied with her life. She wants something in her life, but she cannot get it. Some of her needs cannot be fulfilled. Then she does some
plastic surgery to make herself more beautiful than before, even though she is pretty enough.
3.2 Approach of the Study
I use the psychological approach presented by Rohrberger and Woods for analyzing this novel. I choose the psychological approach because I need this
approach to make an analysis of the human motivation in carrying out some actions.
Rohrberger and Woods said that the psychological approach involves the effort to locate and demonstrate certain current patterns. This approach is used to
explain human’s motivation, personality, behavior, and needs patterns written in literary works 1971:13.
3.3 Procedures of the Study
The method of this study was library research. It means the data and information that I used in the analysis were taken from books on literature that
were provided in the library.
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I analyzed this novel using two sources. They were a primary source and secondary sources. The primary source was the novel itself, Hope Donahue’s
Beautiful Stranger. The secondary sources were several books used to support the study, such as literary books, psychology books, and motivation books. I also used
electronic sources to support and complete the information that I could not get from the books.
I carried out several steps in analyzing this novel. The first step was reading this novel several times in order to understand the story more and to find
out some interesting points that I can use as the main topic in this study. The second step was deciding the problem formulation. The third step was trying to
find out a suitable approach to help me analyzing the novel. The fourth step was analyzing the novel based on the problem formulated. And the last step was
making a conclusion and suggestions for teachers and future researchers.
