Lerionka was sent away to attend the cattles. An askari, a messager of the white people came to his village one day, with a message straight from the government
that young boys must be sent to school. Kariankei does not like the idea of sending his only son away. Two worlds clash, modern and tradition way of life.
One dominating and the other resisting from the ways of life.
B. Approach of the study
In this study the writer will use the Postcolonialism approach. The writer believes this is the suitable approach to the problems.
The Postcolonialism approach is defined as an approach that concerns itself particularly with literature that represents and concentrates on writings from
colonized cultures, place and societies that were once dominated by outside of the white, male European cultural, political and philosophical tradition Bressler,
1999: 265. Furthermore, Bressler expound that “postcolonial literature and theory
investigate what happens when two cultures clash and when one of them with its accompanying ideology empowers and deen itself superior to the other
” Bressler, 1999: 265. The writer will use the Postcolonial Approach because the approach
enables the writer to deal the analysis from perspectives; to construct the coming across upon the novel’s particular characterization as part of a resistance toward
the oppresser that is assessed by the Kenyan author Henry Ole Kulet toward the Western literary mainstream. By using the Approach, the writer’s state of mind
would be solely directed towards the effect brought by colonization.
C. Method of Study
In conducting the analysis, the writer uses the method of research procedure by re-reading the literary work, which fuctions as the primary data or
source. During this first step, the writer tried to interpret the novel and seek the interesting things within the primary source. After understanding the basic
material of the issue, the writer then formulate the objective of the study. The second step is the library research. In conducting the library
research, the writer collected some references relating to the object and the topic of the study. The writer then chose and studied the related books that goes with
the topic of analysis, and those references would help the writer to find the answers of the problem formulation. Notes of any information that were being
aquired from the reference books were taken by the writer to be used as the proof of the thesis statement. Other than conducting library research, the writer also
browses the Internet to maintain more current information surrounding the novel and the topic chosen by the writer.
The third step is arranging the references gathered and then analyzed them. The fourth step which is the main core of the thesis, that is analyzing the
topic the writer used a piece of writing from the literary work, and added the references as proof of the arguments. The last step conducted by the writer was to
go into conclusion of the analysis by answering the questions rose in the problem formulation.
