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Trapped in a dessert, they shared the same opinion about grown-ups. They both think that grown-ups are very strange. Grown-ups pursue something which is
not important. Grown-ups cannot see things beyond the surface. The only thing that they care is just numbers and figures. Grown-ups are lack of imagination.
B. Approach of the Study
In this study, concerning to the problems that were analyzed, the researcher uses the psychological approach. The approach is used because the
problems in the study are dealing with human‟s thought over something and need
to be analyzed by the right approach. The psychological approach is used to analyze the meaning of grown-ups
as seen by the narrator in Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s The Little Prince by
knowing from the psychological aspects. The psychological approach is used to analyze the deeper meaning of
grown-ups in the novel. According to Rohrberger and Woods 1971, there are five approaches which can be used in library study. They are formalist approach,
biographical approach, the socio-cultural-historical approach, the mythopoeic approach, and psychological approach. Rohrberger and Woods 1971 say that
psychological approach focuses on the life as the portrait of “human psychology
which contains thought, behavior, human personality, motivation and the other aspects related to the human psychology
” p. 9. As many people believe that human mind is the root of every thought and action human being does. Moreover,
this approach provides “a set of symbols which are common to all human beings
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and can be interpreted in light of human being ‟s experience” p. 14. The deeper
meaning of grown-ups can b e revealed by analyzing the character‟s thought,
behavior, personality, and motivation. Those aspects are gotten after analyzing the character with the theories that have been mentioned in Chapter Two.
C. Method of the Study
The method that is used in this study is a library research. There are some steps to get the answers from the problem formulation in the study. Before starting
to analyze, the researcher tried to gather the data. There are two important sources that are used to analyze the problems. The first data is
Antoine de Saint Exupéry‟s The Little Prince novel. The second source is the secondary sources which are
some books about psychology and literature and also some informations from the internet.
This study is meant to analyze the meaning of grown-ups as seen by the narrator in The Little Prince novel. This is some steps to get the answers to the
problems. First, the researcher read the primary data in order to understand the story and be able to decide the problem limitation. This step helps the researcher
to know precisely which parts that are going to be analyzed. Next, reviewing the secondary sources. The secondary sources are gathered to answer all problems
that are related to the story. They are used to answer the questions in the thesis logically. After the researcher understands the primary data and also has gathered
the secondary sources, this is the time where the researcher apply all the sources to analyze the problems. These steps are very important in order to answer the
