Research Approach Object of the Study Sources of Data Procedures of Collecting Data

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CHAPTER III METHOD OF INVESTIGATION

Chapter III presents the method of investigation. It consists of research approach, object of the study, sources of data, procedures of collecting data, and procedures of analyzing data.

3.1 Research Approach

This study will use qualitative approach to analyze the portrayal of catalepsy patient in short story The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe. The data will be taken from the short story, so the short story will be the source of the data.

3.2 Object of the Study

The object of this study is a disease called Catalepsy which is suffered by the main character of the short story. The disease makes the main character begin to get phantasies and fear about his death. All of those situations bring impacts to the main character’s behavior. He gets difficulties in adaptation to the society. 18 19

3.3 Sources of Data

The primary source of the data is Edgar Allan Poe’s short story entitled The Premature Burial. The data of this final project include some words, phrases, idioms and also expressions in the short story. However, they are not merely the data of the study. I also find the sentences, monologues and utterances of the characters and some hidden meanings. The data do not only involve textual meaning, but also contextual meaning. The behaviors of the characters also become the qualified data of the study. The secondary source of the data is various textbooks that relate to this study. Those textbooks support the writing of the final project and they become the references.

3.4 Procedures of Collecting Data

The procedures of collecting data in this final project are as follows: 1 Reading The basic step of collecting data was close reading the short story The Premature Burial for several times. 2 Identifying I separate the data from non-data which were found in the story as primary source of the study. The data can be dialogues, sentences, and expressions of the story. 20 3 Inventorying It is to list all data which were collected and then the data were stored into inventory table. The data which were analyzed by using the table below can be seen in Appendix 2. The table consists of four columns: number of data, the data quotationdialogue, number of line, and number of problem to answer, as given below: No. of Data The Data QuotationDialogue No. of Line Number of Problem to Answer 4 Reporting After inventorying the data, the next technique was reporting. The data which were stored in the inventory table were reported in appendices. The overall data analysis is in Appendix 2.

3.5 Procedures of Analyzing the Data