CHAPTER II THE METHOD OF ANALYSIS
2.1 The Source of Data
The sources of data for this thesis are from the novel Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and some critical books have close relation with novel, which will be
discussed later. In analyzing this novel, writer would have picked out many books to be looked into other references and as guidance. The data is not fully copied, although
there are some quotations.
2.2 Data Collecting Procedure
In collecting the data, writer needs some instrument for this thesis. The technique used by gathering all the data from the library or from internet and other
supporting material relevant to the topic of the thesis as her as possible, then she begin to read the data carefully, to take down notes and composes it properly. The whole
data, the quotation will be put in her thesis later on and find out the relation with the study. The right data is divided into parts to suit the parts of the study. All of the data
are read carefully line by line to find out the relation with the study.
2.3 The Analysis of Data
By writing this thesis, writer has combined the important data from many other sources, which have been collected and analyze them well. The kind of research
is library research. She collects the data from various books and internet. In analysis of this thesis, the writer uses qualitative descriptive method. This method is a
scientific procedure to get conclusion from particular thing to general idea based on the theory.. She uses some steps in doing this analysis. First, writer read whole novel
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to get deep understanding about the novel, second, the writer selects the important information about moral lesson in that novel. Third, the writer quotes the text and
makes the quotation as the data to support the analysis. Fourth, the writer would make interpretation base on the data that have been already taken before. The last is the
writer would make further analysis about moral lesson that found in novel A Christmas Carol.
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CHAPTER III THEORYTICAL FRAMEWORK