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country mansion, Shrove. Before her seventeen birthday, Liza is forced to leave the gatehouse because her mother, Eve, has killed a man. This is not the first one.
Liza has seen her mother kill three men but the police only accuses Eve for one murder that she commits. Instead of going to Eve’s bestfriend’s
address , Liza goes to her boyfriend’s caravan in the wood. There , she describes her lonely life for almost seventeen years and what Eve has done.
Here , Liza is analogized as the crocodile bird , a creature that can live safely in the mouth of a predator, a crocodile , and even gives a sign of
dangers to the crocodile.
B. Approach
The thesis
will use
the psychological
approach. Using the
psychological approach means that we use the psychology theories to analyze the work of literature Rohrberger and Woods, Jr., 1971:3. The thing that
is being analyzed is human behaviour pattern appears in the novel. It
means that literature is closely related to psychology because characters
and stories in literary works are a reflection of human relationship in the real world which is often examined from the perspective of psychology. By this
means, I will use theories of psychology to analyze the characters in the novel.
C. Procedure
The study on Ruth Rendell’s The Crocodile Bird was conducted by applying the library research. I used the novel itself as the primary source and
collected some books as the secondary sources, the study on Rendell’s works, and also the critics to her works.
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First step was reading the novel several times in order to get the topic for the study. After getting the idea that was considered proper to write in this study, I
formulated some problems that I considered significant. Consultations with my sponsor helped me a lot to get the best problem formulation. After getting the best
topic, I searched some literature from the library and internet that could support my analysis. To get a better understanding about the novel, I had to re-read many
times and chose some evidence that could support my analysis later. After writing the analysis, I made conclusions of what I have written. I
also wrote some suggestions for future researchers and for the teaching learning activities.
