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salvation. Men as the creatures who have strong power are really needed. They are hoped to guide and save women.
D. Theoretical Framework
In this study, I use the psychological approach and the sociocultural – historical background. The psychological approach is necessary for analyzing and
answering the formulated problems because it deals with someone’s psychological condition. In this study, I choose friendship of Mariam and Laila in
Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns. The sociocultural – historical background is used to analyse and answer the formulated problems based on the
social, culture, and history of the novel’s setting. I use the theory of character by Stanton and also Henkle and the theory of
characterization by Rohrberger and Woods Jr, and also by Murphy. Those theories are used to figure out the character of Mariam and Laila.
Other theories are friendship and motivation. Those theories are used to answer the questions of the problem formulated.
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
There are three main parts in this chapter. They are object of the study, approach of the study, and method of the study. The object of study deals with the
novel that is analyzed in this study and some sources that support the study. The approach of the study contains the description of the approach that is used in the
analysis. In the last part, the method of the study, it is about description of the steps taken in analyzing friendship between Mariam and Laila in Khaled
Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns.
A. Object of Study
The object of this thesis is Khaled Hosseini’s novel entitled A Thousand Splendid Sun. It was originally published in 2007 by Riverhead Books. The novel
used in this study was the mass - market international edition, printed on May 2008. The novel consists of 448 pages. It contains 51 chapters in 4 parts. This
novel is a best seller novel, according to New York Times. Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns tells about a family in
Kabul, Afghanistan. There are two major characters in this novel. They are Mariam and Laila. The novel tells a friendship between Mariam and Laila. The
story starts with the story of Mariam. Mariam is a fifteen–year–old girl who is illegatimate daughter of a rich man named Jalil and his servant, Nana. Mariam is
married to Rasheed. Several years later, Rasheed saves a beautiful young girl
