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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.
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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.
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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