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C. Context of the Novel
According to Schiff 1994 in her book, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in Lyons, France, in 1900. His prime profession is a pilot. He had flown any
kind of flying planes for about twenty years. His ideas about his essays and novel came from his experience in flying to many places around the world. The Little
Prince was written during World War II. He had to stop on his profession as a pilot and moved to New York because of Germany‟s invasion in France. He had
to leave his hometown because of the war that happened in Europe. The novel was inspired by his homesick to return to his hometown which is France, hoping
to live in peace. His thought of what happened to him that time made him so desperately eager to write this novel. The story is mainly about his stress about
what happened in his time, especially about the World War II. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter is divided into three parts. The first part is the Object of the Study which presents the information related to the novel that is used in this
study. The second part is the Approach of the Study which presents the approach that is used in analyzing the novel. The last, Method of the Study which explains
about the method that is used in this study.
A. Object of the Study
The Little Prince is a book written by Antoine de Saint Exupéry was published in 1943. The original version of this book was written in France. The
story is actually for children, but it is also suitable for adults. The novel can be for everyone because of the storyline can be interpreted in any level of age.
The Little Prince is about a pilot, the narrator himself, whose plane crashed in the desert. He met the Little Prince when he tried to repair his broken airplane.
Then, he realized that the Little Prince comes from another planet outside the Earth. They spent eight days in dessert.
In his meeting with the Little Prince, he got some stories that planet Earth was the seventh planet that he visited. Before arriving planet Earth, he had visited
some planets and met some very odd people such as a king, a conceited man, a drunkard, a businessman, a lamplighter, and a geographer.
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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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