E. Research Methodology 1.
The Purpose of the Research
The research aims to analyze the major character and characterization and the crisis of identity of the major character in The
Reluctant of Fundamentalist novel by using hybridity and identity of the hybrid in postcolonial theory.
2. Research Method
The method used in this reseach is qualitative method with the analytic-descriptive method. The writer analyses the unit of analysis by
using every reference related to the study. He also tries to answer from the research questions by analysing the novel and quoting some words or
sentences from the novel to support the analysis.
3. Research Instrument
The instrument in this research is the writer himself by reading and analyzing the novel of The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Besides analyzing
the data, the writer also puts it as the evidence in this research.
4. Data Analysis Technique
In analyzing and describing the data, the writer uses the following techniques and steps, namely; first of all, reading the novel The Reluctant
Fundamentalist completely, carefully, and accurately. secondly, the writer identifies the data by classifying character and characterization, especially
related to the main character and the main character’s crisis identity by
giving some marks for the words or sentences in the novel that show them. Finally, organizing the data and analysing them.
5. Analysis Unit
The analysis unit for this research is the novel of The Reluctant Fundamentalist written by Mohsin Hamid published by the Penguin
Group and printed in Great Britain in 2007.
6. Time and Place of the Research
The research was conducted on May 2009 to February 2011 in the library of Letters and Humanities faculty, the main library of State Islamic
University Jakarta, the library of Islamic College branch of London, the library of Knowledge and Culture faculty of Indonesian University.
CHAPTER II THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK