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CHAPTER III METHOD OF INVESTIGATION
In this chapter I present the approach that is used to analyze the twisted ending in O. Henry’short story. It also consists of the object of study, the unit of analysis
and the data analysis.
3.1 Approach
This study uses stylistic and qualitative descriptive approach as the main devices for investigating the data. As stated in Chapter II, stylistic approach is used when
an analysis is begun to explore a fiction from its language composition such as words, phrases and sentence in fiction. This basic approach is also supported by
the next approach, qualitative descriptive to conduct this study completely. Qualitative research focuses more on the process than the product or the
result. The special criteria for data validity is qualitative research which requires valid, reliable and objective data. Actually, all research approach requires them.
According Moleong in his book Metodologi Penelitian Kualitatif 2008:3, the main data in qualitative research are words and action or attitude. The main data
which are used to be intepreted by the qualitative research are words, pictures and not in numbers.
3.2 Object of the Study
The objects of the study are O.Henry’s short stories entitled Furnished Room and The Cop and The Anthem which are taken from O. Henry’s book The Four
Million published in 1906.
3.3 Role of the Researcher
The role of the researcher in conducting this is a data collector who gathers the important data as the object of study. The researcher is also an analyst who
analyzes the components of short story which are related to the twisted ending. Finally, the researcher works as an interpreter who interprets the finding and
correlate the finding to attraction aspect of twisted ending for literature readers. Then, the researcher completes the report based on the research findings.
3.4 Unit of the Analysis
For analyzing O.Henry’s short stories, three units of analysis are presented as follow:
1 Sentence structure
The data included sentence structures and clause types. Sentence structure can be divided into simple, compound, complex and compound complex sentence. It also
covers some types of clauses. The example is taken from Furnished Room and the italic bold printed sentence below refers to simple sentence.
The bell sounded faint and far away in some remote, hollow depths.
2 Diction
In this analysis, it covers the application of word as noun, verb, adverb and adjective. The following example is taken from The Cop and The Anthem and the
italic and bold printed word refers to verb because it represents an action.
Soapy felt a hand laid on his arm. 3 Figure of Speech
For example the figures is found in short story entitled Furnished Room and The italic bold printed sentence indicates the use of metaphor.
The ebbing of his hope drained his faith. He sat staring at the yellow, singing gaslight.
3.5 Data Analysis 3.5.1 Close reading in finding the data
