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CHAPTER 3 METHODOLOGY
This chapter consists of three parts, namely the subject matter, the approach and the procedure. The subject matter consists of a brief description
about the no vel Over Bethnal Green and the story. The approaches consist of the explanation and the reason of choosing the approach. The procedure will discuss
the steps of analyzing the novel.
3.1 Subject Matter
This study analyzes one of Sally Worboyes’ novels ent itled Over Bethnal Green.
This novel was published in Great Britain, January 2000 by Hodder and Stoughton and consists of 413 pages.
There are some characters in this novel but the main character is Jessie Smith. Other characters that support the story are Tom Smith, Jessie’s husband;
Rose Warner, Jessie’s mother; Charlie and Emmie, Jessie’s father and mother in law; Alice Davey, Jack Davey, Edna Redman, Jessie’s friend; Max Cohen,
Jessie’s ex fiancée; Hannah, Jessie’s twin’s sister; Mrs. Eileen Catlin, Jessie’s landlady; Mr. Martin, Jessie’s landlord; Joyce Bertram, Jessie’s landlady.
The setting of the story is in Britain in 1939. At that time World War II was broken. During that time, Britain was against Germany.
The story tells about Jessie Smith, a mother of a, 6-month-old baby who has to let her husband Tom joins the army to get involved in war. She has to face
the fact that her husband has an affair with a nurse and runs from war. From this
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the conflicts start when her landlady asked her to leave from the house and the people around her treat her badly.
3.2 Approach
This study uses psychological approach proposed by Kennedy and Gioia to reveal Jessie’s characterization, to find out the conflicts, types, how they
emerge and what steps that can be applied to overcome them. Thus, from the information the writer can reveal the conflicts found in the novel.
3.3 Procedures There were some steps taken in order to answer the problems. First, the
writer read the novel several times in order to comprehend the story and to find some interesting points such as the elements of the novel and the essence of the
novel. Second, the writer looked for the information related to the author, novel,
conflicts, and history of World War II. The information and references were from books, references in the library and Internet.
Third, the writer chose some problem formulation to be analyzed. The writer adopted some references to collect data related to the topic analyzed. The
writer used theory of character and characterization, theory of critical approach, theory of conflict and theory of conflict resolution.
Fourth, the writer adopted another data such as criticism of Worboyes or about the novel in order to get the best answer of the problem formulation.
Fifth, the writer analyzed the character related to the problem to get a
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better understanding about Jessie’s character. The writer applied theory of character and characterization from Forster and Murphy.
Sixth, the writer analyzed the second problem in the problem formulation. The theory of conflict is applied to analyze Jessie’s conflict.
Seventh, the writer analyzed the last question from the problem formulation. The writer used theory of conflict resolution to analyze how Jessie
overcomes her conflict. The last, the writer drew conclusions of the thesis. The conclusions
consisted of the summary of the answers to the problems and the writer wrote some suggestion for future researchers and teaching learning activities.
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CHAPTER 4 ANALYSIS
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