Approach of the Study

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B. Approach of the Study

This study is using biographical approach. In order to analyze the biography of Blanco, the writer used biographical approach. Rohrberger and Woods 1971:8 stated that biographical approach refers to the necessity for an appreciation of the ideas and personality of the author to an understanding of the literary object. They also stated that on the basis of the biographical approach, a work of art is a reflection of a personality, that in the esthetic experience the reader shares the authors’ consciousness, and that at least part of the readers’ response is to the author’s personality. Consequently, we attempt to learn and to apply this knowledge in our attempt to understand the author’s writings. To interpret and understand the motivation, writer needs to know what causes the motivations to be existed in the first place through the biography and the experience from the writer of the book Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story, Jodee Blanco. The first step to conduct this study is to read the novel Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story by Jodee Blanco. This book had been sold three hundred thousand copies and this book was a best seller in New York Times in 2012. This book is the trigger for Blanco to be an anti- bullying activist . At first people see this book as a book with no “real” audiences, and then when people began to start reading this book, they began to acknowledge the hidden message inside the book and then the book became famous. In the discussion the book will be summarized and will be discussed thoroughly. 7 The second step is to write some facts about the author of this book and additional information about this book. The writer finds that it is important to learn about the author’s biography; there the writer can learn more about the author’s background, her life, and her experience in defending herself against bullying. From the author’s experience writer hopes that the motivations of the author of Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story, Jodee Blanco, will be revealed. The additional information about this book is also important, the motivation, or the writer can say Blanco’s main purpose which will be studied in this paper, has a result which is the book Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story. The additional information of the book is to find how useful the book is to the world of education and literature. The third step is to find any theories and approaches that can help writer with the study. The theory used in this paper is the theory of motivation, the kinds of motivation, and the theory of human motivation. The approach used in this paper is biographical approach. Biographical approach is being used in this paper in order to find the relation between the author’s biography in the past and the motivations she came up with in the first place in writing her book. 8 CHAPTER II DISCUSSION The content of this chapter is about the discussion of the problem formulation that has been written in chapter 1. This chapter contents are the author’s biography, the summary of the book Please Stop Laughing At Me . . . One Woman’s Inspirational Story, and the motivation she came up with of writing the book in the first place. The theories of motivation, human motivation, and kinds of motivation will be added as additional theory to support the study.

A. The Author’s Biography