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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

For this chapter, there will be three sections. Those are, Object of the Study, Approach of the study, and Procedures. Object of the study gives brief discussion of the subject on which this study is conducted. Approach of the study gives clarification on particular approach and theories used to investigate the study. The Procedures contains the steps conducted in this study. .

A. Object of the Study

This study discusses one of literary works, thus this study focuses on the novel If I were You. Llewellyn’s If I Were You novel is kind of modern literature and written for entertaining the readers. It is one of Julia Llewellyn’s master pieces after her first work, The Love Trainer. If I were You novel was published in 2006 by Penguin Books in 495 pages and was illustrated by Bill Brown. The novel is not only read for adults, but also it is suit enough for teenagers even though the story of the novel is more about adulthood. It is proved by the author’s bright mind in creating the story and in describing the characters and the settings that are close to the real life. The settings are so clear that the readers can easily imagine the distinctive settings of places and situations described in the novel as if they were involved and witnessed in every incident in the story. For the novel, Llewellyn chooses a big issue in friendship that she has ever 35 36 experienced in her life. The novel is about the jealously had by Sophie and Natasha as a close friend. The author can easily bring the story to the readers’ attention since it reflects her own experiences in having friendship with her girl friends, getting jealous each other, helping each other passing their problems they have and in actualizing their views about them selves and others. And there are distinctive versions of the way people search for their self- identity that are showed through the two main characters’ life experiences, actions, desires, thoughts, and feelings. There is Natasha who is more intelligent, has a successful career, a gorgeous penthouse flat, but she has trouble by loving a man who already has a girlfriend. On the other hand, there is Sophie who has a man she loves, and who is more attractive and beautiful. But she has trouble with her relationship with her boyfriend. After Sophie and Natasha graduated from college, they have different way of life. Natasha continued her study into a well-known university, but Sophie could not continue her study because of her family financial problem. Sophie decided to attend short courses and got a job. Then finally Natasha graduated from her university and got a job as a manager of popular company, while Sophie only worked at a fair publisher in town. The different ways Sophie and Natasha passed their lives lead them to find their self identity in different process too. Both of them not only experienced uneasy time by being unmarried when their age was not young enough but also got difficult problems that tested their friendship. 37

B. Approach of the Study

This second section discusses the approach used in analyzing the novel of If I were You. From the novel and the topic that has been chosen about the two main characters’ searching for self-identity, it is clear that this study focuses on the Psychology point of view. Therefore, the psychological approach is used to analyze the two conducted problems in this study and to achieve the objectives of this study. Besides that, psychological approach is used here to explain the human motivation, personality, and behavior patterns in the literary works as knowledge of psychology concerned with behavior and mental processes insight of an individual. To get the complete analysis, it needs to explore the characteristics of the two main characters, Sophie and Natasha. Here, this analyzes the exploration of the characters’ personality using the Theory of Character and Characterization. For deeper discussion, this study also uses Psychoanalytic Theory developed by Sigmund Freud to explore the two main characters, Sophie and Natasha. And there are other supporting theories such as Psychodynamic Theories, Phenomenological theories, Theory Friendship, and Theory of the Relationship between Literature and Psychology. Those theories are used to analyze the characters’ searching for self- identity and self-actualization within the story of the novel including the internal and external factors. To get the understanding of Psychological implication, it needs to use the Theory of Friendship to look into Sophie and Natasha’s relationship. The theory of the Relationship between Psychology and Literature is employed to make this study easily to conduct. 38

C. Procedures

This following part is going to describe the ways taken in analyzing this study. There were some steps needed to do. First, to conduct this study, it was important to choose the literary work that was Llewellyn’s novel If I were You, and then it was needed to read the novel several times to get deeper understanding and consideration of the problems that were going to discuss. Here, the problems of discussion were formulated. The second step after formulating the problems formulation was finding the main characters of the novel and discussing them. Here, this step tried to analyze the description of the main characters. Third, it was necessary to determine the description of the main characters in the novel, and the contribution of this work towards society or even human being. The fourth was to provide the evidences in forms of theories and approach to support the analysis. Considering this study, it was urged to find sources from books and articles in the Internet that provided the explanation of the theories used to investigate and answer the second problem. The next step was to state the comments, opinions, events of the story. Then the criticism of the work was needed to be elaborated. All Those steps mentioned above were very important since they were the basic knowledge to analyze and to explore the story. In the fourth and fifth steps, the writer would like to take notes of quotations, useful information from many sources. Therefore this study was classified as library research. The settings of the novel included the time, place, and situation were also discussed. The sixth step was conducting critical analysis by using psychological 39 approach and theories, then the answers to the problems could be found out. The last step was adding some suggestions on teaching learning process using the story of the novel If I were You as the material, which is aimed to teach the fourth semester students of English Language Study Program in Sanata Dharma University, and to recommend the related topics for the future researchers.