Technique of Data Collection

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1.6.5.2 Psychological Approach

Psychological approach is an attempt to study someone’s personality, not only on how they build their personality but also how the personality develops Hurlock, 1980: 2. In this thesis, psychological approach is used to analyze Charlie’s ego defence mechanisms . The writer wants to describe the process of Charlie’s ego defence mechanisms and the reason and also the purpose of why it happens. Because “ego defence mechanisms” has a close relation with psychological approach, that’s why, by the explanation about ego defence mechanisms, the writer wants to describe the analysis of this topic. On conducting the research, the writer did some steps as following: 1. Analyzing the structural elements in the novel. 2. Finding common psychological tendencies experienced by Charlie. 3. Connecting Charlie’s psychological condition with settings and conflicts in the novel. 4. Analyzing if Charlie’s psychological condition is a part of human ego defence mechanisms. 5. Describing ego defence mechanisms experienced by Charlie. 6. Composing the research report.

1.7 Thesis Organization

This thesis consists of five chapters as the following: Chapter I is Introduction. This chapter consists of the background of the study, statement of the problem, objective of the study, scope of the study, significance of the study, methods of the study and thesis organizations. 8 Chapter II is Author’s Biography and Synopsis of the Story. This chapter tell about biography and works of Stephen Chbosky and synopsis of the story of The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Chapter III is Review of Related Literature. This chapter presents the intrinsic element which is main character, settings, and conflict; both internal and external and also extrinsic element which is about psychology, especially in ego defence mechanisms. Chapter IV is Discussion. This chapter is about discussion of intrinsic element which are character, setting, and conflict; both internal and external and also extrinsic element which is about psychology, especially about ego defence mechanisms encountered by Charlie in The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. Chapter V is Conclusion and Suggestion.