Research Method Research Instrument Data Analysis Technique Analysis Unit Time and Place of the Research

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