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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
There are three sections that are included in this chapter. They are object of the study, approach of the study, and method of the study. In object of the study,
the writer explains the general thing discussed in the novel. Approach of the study discusses the approach that is used to analyze this novel. This section includes
description of the approach, reason of selecting the approach, and the application of the approach related to this study. The last section of this chapter, which is the
method of the study, explains the method that the writer applies in conducting this study.
A. Object of The Study
This study analyses a novel titled Some Other Summer. This novel, which is written by C. S. Adler, was published in United States of America by
Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. in 1982. This novel consists of 126 pages and is divided into 16 chapters.
This novel is a fiction novel. The main character in this story is Lynette. This novel tells about a struggle of a young girl named Lynette. She was an
orphan. Her parents have passed away. She lived with her uncle’s family. Her uncle name was Josh. Josh had a wife named Marie, and two children named
Debbi and Eddie.
The author, in this novel, tried to describe the behavior of the main character to fulfill the need the main character herself. It is shown in the behavior
of the main character. In this story, Lynette is described as a young girl. She was given the
responsibility to take care of the mares. When Lynette took care of the mare, Eddie came and disturbed the mare. The mare snorted with surprise. She tried to
catch him and wanted to hit him, but then he said that he would tell Uncle Josh what Lynette did to him. Lynette replied his threat by saying that she would tell
Marie what Eddie did to the mare. Eddie was not afraid of Marie. Marie was Eddie’s step mother. Josh only married Marie so that she could take care of his
horse. After that, Lynette let Eddie go. When she was thinking about Eddie, suddenly she remembered Jeremy. She thought that Jeremy would help her.
Jeremy was going to come in few days later. She took care of the mare while imagining Jeremy. It had been three years that they did not meet each other. Now,
she had been expecting for his coming. When she got back home, she met Eddie there. Eddie always liked to
disturbed Lynette. This time, he started it with a polite question for Lynette whether she still mad of him or not. After few time having chatted, Eddie started
being naughty. They had quarrel and it was ended by his leaving and tearing Lynette’s blouse. She was very angry. She wailed and slapped Eddie as hard as
she could across his face, and then let him go. She went upstairs and laid herself on the bed afterward.
In the twilight, when she woke up, Uncle Josh called her and told that she had a visitor. It was Jeremy. Uncle Josh had gone to the bus station to pick him
up. Lynette, who has round, dark eyes fringed with thick, black lashes, took a look at herself in the mirror and brushed her hair with a pink plastic hairbrush, and then
went downstairs. She was surprise and happy at the same time. Suddenly, Eddie came. Jeremy was wondering the left hand print on Eddie’s face. Eddie began to
tell everybody about what Lynette had done to him. He told everyone as if he did not do anything bad.
After Jeremy’s stuff was taken to Eddie’s room, Lynette asked Jeremy to go with her to see Penny, the mare. During their way to the stall, they talked about
the problem raised there. Lynette sometimes had a nightmare. She dreamt that she was in a van with horses. She thought that Uncle Josh would get rid of her
because she was only his niece, not Josh’s own child. When she had a nightmare, Debbi would get into bed with her to comfort her. She realized that Uncle Josh
had been so nice to her. She did not want to ask anything to him. When they continue walking, Jeremy said that Lynette has changed a lot.
They were talking about what Lynette had done to Eddie. He made Lynette thought that she was brute. A few moments having such conversation, Lynette
asked Jeremy to stop talking about Eddie. Lynette said that she was not a mean person. She did so because she has to punish Eddie. They changed their topic after
that. Lynette only listened to what Jeremy said. The next day, they were all busy with their work in the ranch. Lynette
started to feel that she got less attention from Jeremy, though Lynette expected
more. When the day of Debbi’s arrival came, Josh asked Jeremy to spend sometimes with Lynette. Debbi was Josh’s daughter. She had been out for a week.
Lynette felt very happy at that time, but then suddenly it was ruined. Eddie wanted to join them. They rode horses. During their way, Lynette heard very
shocking information about Jeremy. Eddie asked Jeremy whether he had a gir
lfriend or not, and Jeremy said that he had one. It broke Lynette’s feeling. After few time having sightseeing, they wanted to get back home.
Suddenly, the horse Eddie rode ran out of control. Lynette and Jeremy tried to catch him, but unfortunately Eddie fell from the horse. Lynette was very worried
about him, thought there was nothing bad happened to Eddie. When Lynette took Eddie home, she heard Debbi’s voice. Debbi was Eddie’s sister. Lynette spent
some time to have a short conversation with Debbi and then get back to the paddock to see the horses. She blamed herself for letting Eddie got hurt, but she
was surprised when Marie said that the accident was not because of her carelessness. A few moments after, Lynette got back home and found Jeremy had
already been at home and chatted with Debbi. She felt very jealous. One day, there was a fire burnt the forest. Everyone was busy to take the
fire off. Suddenly, Lynette remembered of Eddie. She tried to look for Eddie everywhere, but finally she could find him in the barn. Eddie was there to watch
his fort. He was sad when he found the fort was burnt. Then Lynette confessed her bad. She told Eddie that she had destroyed the fort before it burnt down. At that
time, they started to confess their bad and forgive each other. Eddie promised to be nice to Lynette and vice versa.
Next day, when Lynette woke up, she heard Josh’s voice. Josh accused Jeremy for setting the fire. Then Lynette got down from the upstairs and stated
that she was the one who set the fire. She was very sorry. She begged Josh for not sending him to the jail. Josh apologized Lynette and he would pretend that no one
has set the fire. Lynette was wondering why Josh did that. She had given Josh enough excuse to get rid of her. Starting from that moment, Lynette felt
something different. For the first time, she had no doubt that she was welcomed. She belonged to Josh’s family.
When the day of Jeremy’s leaving came, Jeremy asked Lynette to take walk before his leaving. He told that everything that Lynette had told was true. He
came there because he couldn’t find any place better to go. He asked Lynette to forgive him. Lynette could forgive him and she still wanted to be his friend. She
could only wait some other summer when Jeremy would come back again and would start to love her.
B. Approach of the Study
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