Homosexuality appears when a mother becomes a detached and hostile person, while father is overly protective his own son Bieber 398. Meanwhile, Walker states five-
environment factors that build someone‟s homosexuality. They are a conflict with the parent of the opposite sex, frequent conflict between a father and a mother which may
create a bad view of the children to all relationship of a heterosexual nature, deprived of companionship with children of the opposite sex in the earlier years, regular
conflict between rival brothers and rival sisters which makes a depressed heterosexual companionship and an understanding between the two sexes, and the preference for
girls or boys on the parts of the parents which produces a similar favoritism in the children Walker 205.
B. Theoretical Framework
In order to answer the problems formulated, some theories are used. The first theory used is the theory of character and characterization. Those theories will help to
determine the personality of the character based on the character‟s behavior and thought which are identified through the author, another ch
aracters, character‟s speech, his past life, other characters opinion, reactions, direct comment, thoughts,
and movements. Then, theory of critical approach also used to explain the definition of the approach, which is used in this study.
The first and the second problems will be answered by applying theory of parental role and homosexuality. Theory of parental love endows with the
explanation and the influence of father-son relationship. The theory is used to
determine how the relationship between father and his son can influence the son and through the reflection of the character‟s personality refer to the character‟s behavior
and thought. Since homosexuality has been identified as one of the effects of the relationship between father and his son in the novel, therefore theory of
homosexuality is employed to find out the detail explanation about the connecting of homosexuality and the relationship between father and son. The theory explains about
the characteristics of homosexuality, the definition and the cause of it.
CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter consists of four parts. The first part is object of the study, which is a novel, entitled
A Way of Love
by James Courage. This part will tell briefly the story of the novel. The second part describes sources used for this study. The third
part is the approach applied to accomplish the study. The last part describes steps of study used to conduct the study systematically.
A. Object of the Study
The object of this study is the novel by James Courage entitled
A Way of Love
. The novel was first published in 1959. It was printed in Great of OXFORD at the Alden press on paper made by John Dickson and Co. LTD and bounded by
A.W.BAIN Co. LTD, London. The novel consists of 225 pages. It is divided into three parts. The first part tells
the first meeting of Philip Dill with Bruce Quantock, a middle-aged man who lives in his small house in London and works as an architect and also a homosexual. In this
part, Philip and Bruce begin to know each other. They start to introduce each other. In this part, Philip begins to know that he finds a figure like his father, an expectation
that he has missed for a long time since his father dies. Bruce is the figure who resembles his father. Part two tells us about the relationship between Philip and Bruce
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