the delusions of people with other psychotic disorders, the delusions of people with schizophrenia are likely to be outside the realm of possibility. Finally, even
when individuals with schizophrenia improve with treatment, they are likely to experience difficulties throughout their lives.
Worldwide, the lifetime prevalence rate of schizophrenia is roughly equivalent for men and women, and it is estimated at 0.2 to 1.5 in the general
population, which means the disorder will affect around 1 of the population at some point. Life expectancy is slightly less than average, partly because of the
higher rate of suicide and accidents among people with schizophrenia. Aaron T. Beck also has the same opinion with Durand about the
prevalence of schizophrenia. According to Beck, Individuals with schizophrenia die prematurely. Suicide is a major contributor to this discrepancy, and it has been
estimated that 5.6 of individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia die by suicide, with the period of greatest risk coming during the early phase of the illness. While
individuals with schizophrenia are thirteen times more likely to die by suicide than individuals in the general population, Beck has recently shown that
individuals with schizophrenia also have elevated mortality across a wide array of illness categories.
C. Theoretical Framework
The theories from the previous section will contribute to answer problems of this study. Theory of character and characterization is necessary to give a basic
understanding to analyze the characteristics of the characters which will answer the problem formulation number one.
Theory of schizophrenia is required to answer the problem formulation number two. This part applies the theory of schizophrenia in order to grasp the
details description of symptoms that occurs in Naoko‟s characteristics so that the
writer can prove that she is a schizophrenic woman. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
A. Object of the Study
Norwegian Wood original title ノ ル
イ の 森 read as Noruwei no
Mori is considered as a fiction novel and is written by Haruki Murakami. It was first published by Kodansha as its publisher in 1987. Since this story came from
Japan, the original work has been translated into English in 2000 by Jay Rubin under the publisher of Harvill Press in the UK and Vintage International in the
USA. This novel also has been adapted to a movie in 2010 directed by Tran Anh Hung.
The author himself, Haruki Murakami, was born in Kyoto in 1949. His writing has been translated into thirty-four languages, and the most recent of his
many honors is the Jerusalem Prize in 2009. Although, Murakami is famous overseas, he often gets criticism from the Japanese Literature organization as
many of his works was influenced by western culture, however, he still is considered as an important figure in postmodern literature.
The story begins with Toru Watanabe age 37 years old who is reminiscing his teenager life when he heard the song “Norwegian Wood” by the Beatles.
Toru‟s memory reveals the time when he was in high school in Kobe and in the late of 1968s when Toru was starting learn in university and met Naoko since he
left Kobe. Although, this novel is a romance novel but you will not find the uniqueness of love like the other love story novels in general. In the chapter one,
the protagonist who also acts as the narrator reminisces the bitterness of love gets PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
