CHAPTER III METHOD OF STUDY
3.1 Source of Data
In this thesis, I applied the library research by searching and collecting references that contain and support the topic from the library. I gathered the relevant
information from different reference books. I also applied the internet research, collecting the data by browsing and researching some information from the internet
that support my thesis. The primary source of data acquired from the novel which being discussed
in this thesis is a novel written by Caroline Roberts entitled The Lost Girl. This thesis is used to obtain the analysis of psychopath through the character. The secondary
data are drawn from other books as the references which are the most concerned about the conflict in the fiction work especially novel.
Several steps were applied in the data collecting procedure for this thesis. Firstly, the data acquisition from the novel was gathered by reading the novel to get
full understanding about what is being told about. I read both the English version and the translation version. The entire novel was read while identifying the psychopath
found from the characters based on the psychopath definition itself, then marked the crimes that found in the novel in order to ease in classifying the characteristics of
psychopath found from the character belong to. Secondly, the secondary data were gathered from several books that related to the topic of this thesis. The related books
that concern to the subject matter being analyzed are used as the source of the idea to support the analysis of this thesis and also to give the additional information and
statement that can be drawn for this thesis, the important and the relevant
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information from these books are marked and underlined so that it can be used to support the analysis of this thesis, these books finally also used as the references for
this thesis.
3.2 Data Selecting
When all the data and information related to the topic of this thesis were collected, then they were selected to the most significant data that would be used in
the process of finishing this thesis. In this step, the criminal acts committed by the characters that found as the primary data for this thesis were classified according to
the characteristics of psychopath, so that the data analysis in this thesis will be easier to describe. Meanwhile, the data and information found from the related books will
be drawn to this thesis in order to support the analysis in this thesis.
3.3 Data Analysis
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