Bressler also stated that “known as new criticism, this approach to literary analysis provides the reader with a formula for arriving at the correct
interpretation of a text using only the text itself. New criticism does not represent a coherent body of critical theory and methodology espoused by all its followers.
New Criticism and its adherents called New Critics are an eclectic group, each challenging, borrowing, and changing terminology, theory, and practices from one
another while asserting a common core of basic ideas 1999:37-38”.
C. Method of the Study
This study is a library research because all the data that are collected and needed are available in library. There are also the sources the writer used in the
study. The sources are divided into two; those are primary source and secondary sources. The primary source is the novel itself, Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger
Games, and the secondary sources are some books of theories and some articles from the internet which are needed to answer the two problem formulations.
There are some steps that are taken to doing this study. They are arranged as follows: the first step was reading the novel and trying to understand the story
of the novel. This first step is important because Suzanne Collin’s The Hunger Games is the object of the study, by reading this novel the writer could understand
the whole story. The second step was trying to decide the questions about the understanding of the novel. Deciding the questions about the understanding of the
novel is important to pick the right issue that writer wanted to highlight. The third step was collected some data and theories to help the writer answering the
questions. The third step is carried out because the data and theories which are needed to answer the questions have to match with the highlighted issue to avoid
any mistake when answering and analysing the question. The fourth was doing the analysis based on the data and the theories that had been collected. In this step the
writer could answer the questions by analysing the relation between the question, the data and the theories. This step is carried out in order to make the boundaries
to avoid the out of topic answer and analysis. Finally the last step was making a conclusion. To shorten and highlight the main point of the analysis is the reason
why this last step is carried out.
