Object of the Study Approach of the Study Method of the Study

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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

This chapter includes three sections. They are Subject Matter, Approaches, and Procedures. Subject Matter deals with the Subject of the Study. Then, Approach is concerned with the Literature Approaches. Next, the last is Procedures which deals with the steps and procedures in completing the thesis.

A. Object of the Study

This thesis studies the novel Kafka on the Shore. The novel is written by Haruki Murakami, a well known Japanese novelist. Kafka on the Shore is a translated novel. The novel is originally published in Japan in two volumes as Umibe no Kafura by Shinchosha, Tokyo, in 2002. Then it is translated into English by Philip Gabriel. It is published by a Division of Random House, INC, New York in 2005. This novel consists of 488 pages and it is divided into 49 chapters. This novel is an art of fiction. It is about the love of woman in her 50s, named Saeki. Since her sweetheart was dead, Saeki becomes a different person. Saeki’s love to her sweethearts makes her to lose her willing to live. The love is so deep that makes her to build her own world. She becomes a very mysterious person. She never shows her true 28 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 29 feeling to other people. She has a son who escapes from home in order to look for her. However, it does not make her to forget her past and live together with her son. Instead, she keeps her love until the death takes her soul.

B. Approach of the Study

The study is focused on the love as seen in Saeki’s character in Murakami’s novel Kafka on the Shore. Therefore, the writer uses psychological approach. The psychological approach reveals the behavior, thoughts, feeling, and experience of the character. Thus, this approach is relevant to be used in the study to analyze the psychological condition, such as the character’s thoughts, motivation, love, and personality, as seen in Saeki, one of the major characters of Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore.

C. Method of the Study

In order to complete the study, the writer needs a lot of thought as well as references and notes. There are many sources that the writer used in analyzing the love as reflected in Saeki’s character. The sources are PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 30 basically divided into two parts. The first is primary sources which is Murakami’s novel Kafka on the Shore. The author of the novel of Kafka on the Shore is Haruki Murakami. Murakami is a well known Japanese novelist. Kafka on the Shore is a translated novel. The novel was originally published in Japanese language in two volumes. The original title of the novel is Umibe no Kafuka . The novel was published by Shinchosha, Tokyo, in 2002. Furthermore, the novel was translated into English by Philip Gabriel. The novel was published by a Division of Random House, INC, New York in 2005. The second part is the secondary sources that giving more information for the writer in analyzing the novel. The research that was conducted was library study. It means that the procedures to gain the data were reading the sources and taking important notes that helped me in analyzing the data. The steps that were taken in conducting this research were, firstly, the writer found the novel which was used as the primary data, namely, Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. Then, the writer read the novel, after that, the writer formulated the problem to be solved in this study. Then, the writer found other books which were related to this study to support the analysis. Next, the writer tried to analyze the PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 31 character, Saeki, through his words, actions, performances, and comments by other people and searching for proof, which support it. After all, the writer tried to find Saeki’s psychological factor that motivated her to manifest her love and its proof through the characters, which were presented in the novel. Then, it was used to analyze the deeper meaning of the main character’s psychological factors. Afterwards, the writer made a conclusion of the analysis, which solved all of the problems stated in the previous chapter, and recommendation for further research on the topic for complete fulfillment of this project. In addition, I also provided some examples in using literary work to teach English. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 32

CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS