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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

This chapter covers three main parts. They are object of the study, approach of the study and method of the study. Object of the study describes the description of the work analyzed and what the study is generally about. Approach of the study reveals the way taken in analyzing the subject of this study is described. Method of the study explains the sources, steps and the processes conducting this study.

A. Object of the Study

The object of this study is Paulo Coelho’s Veronika Decides to Die. The novel was written by Paulo Coelho. The novel is originally presented in Portuguese language and published by Harper Collins in 1998. It was translated into English by Margaret Jull Costa in 1999. It consists of 210 pages. Veronika Decides to Die tells the reader about a young twenty four year old woman named Veronika who decides to kill herself due to her emptiness of life and she could not stand for it. She tries to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills overdose. She tried but then she fails. Afterwards, she is sent to mental hospital in Villete. She is told by the doctor that the suicide attempt results a failing heart. She is warned that she only had a week to live. When she goes through her medication in Villete, she meets many people there. She starts to learn and realize new things about sense of life. Ultimately, she finds her life worth living. Moreover, it PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 26 brought her to a final decision and starts to live and enjoy her life even though only few days were remaining. Paulo Coelho’s Veronika Decides to Die is not merely offer real life weariness but also put up the appropriate solutions to the readers. Furthermore, this novel also proposed social learning aspects, life choices and decision towards people’s life. Here, readers could see Veronika’s social learning processes which bring her to a decision in her life which ultimately made her knew what to do in her life. This process will enrich readers to have their rights to select and decide which path of life to be undergone like what Veronika had been done.

B. Approach of the Study

This study applied the psychological approach. Based on a book A Study and Research Guide by Lewis Leary, psychological approach can be determined as “an approach that applies principles of modern psychology to characters or situation within literary work or to the person who wrote that work” 57. Since Paulo Coelho’s Veronika Decides to Die is one of literary works which promotes psychological issue, this study used psychological approach to go through with the analysis of the main character. This approach would empower this study to implement several theories of literature and theory of modern psychology while analyzing Paulo Coelho’s Veronika Decides to Die as one of literary works. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 27

C. Method of The Study