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CHAPTER 3 METHODOLOGY
This chapter consists of three parts. These are object of the study, approach of the study, and method of the study. The first is object of the study
which deals with the physical description of the novel Mummy’s Witness by Gayle Sanders and also the focus of this study. The second is approach of the study that I
use to explain the approach in analyzing this novel. The last is method of the study that describes the procedure to analyze the study.
3.1 Object of the study
The object of this study is a biographical novel by a writer named Gayle Sanders. The novel is entitled Mummy’s Witness published in 2007 by Hodder
Stoughton Ltd, a division of Hodder Headline, in Great Britain. The novel consists of 297 pages in 20 chapters. This novel was released as a trade paperback
in July, 2007 by Hodder Headline. Mummy’s Witness is a biographical novel which tells about the traumatic
experiences of the main character, Gayle Sanders, who witnesses her father’s brutal actions in torturing and killing her mother. Gayle grows up in a middle
class household in an ordinary seaside town. She lives with her father, mother, brother, and sister. Her father is a well known person in her town while her
mother is a housewife. Everyday, Gayle sees her mother being tortured by her father. She is the only person who witnesses her father’s violence. Then her
parents are finally separated. Gayle thinks she will be safe, feels joyful and
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back to Gayle and becomes more and more cruel. She has no one to protect her. At the end of the story, Gayle finally survives to make a better life for herself.
I have chosen this novel because this novel is an interesting and inspiring novel talking about the harrowing story of a childhood which is a shuttered by
brutality and Gayle’s determination to triumph over the past. The author’s, language is very simple, but touching. I am interested in analyzing what the main
character’s mental disorder is, and how the main character copes with her disorder. Through this novel, I can see how important love, affection, and warmth
in a family are and also how important appreciating each other in a family is.
3.2 Approach of the study
The approach used in this study is the psychological approach, one of the five approaches proposed by Rohrberger and Woods, Jr 6-15. This approach
focuses on human psychology. I applied the psychological approach to analyze Gayle’s post traumatic stress disorder after she experiences tense and traumatic
experiences. Using this approach I tried to find out what symptoms, causes, and effects of post traumatic stress disorder Gayle experiences and also how she copes
with her post stress traumatic disorder. The theory of psychology used in this study includes the theory of post traumatic stress disorder. This theory helped me
to analyze Gayle’s post traumatic stress disorder and the factors which influence it, for example, symptoms, causes, and effects. In addition, this theory also helped
me to find how Gayle copes with her disorder.
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3.3 Method of the study
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