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CHAPTER 3 METHODOLOGY

This chapter three of methodology focuses on object of the study, critical approach and methodology. Object of the study presents the primary source of the study and a brief summary of the novel. The critical approach explains the approach used in this study and the last point explains the methods applied in this study.

3.1 Object of the Study

The object of this study is a novel titled The Hawk and the Dove, written by Leigh Franklin James. This is a novel with strong socio-historical background as the early America rose, involving the pure native of Indians and the new attendances, European people, who introduceded this land to the world. The Whites would then call it as the New World. This novel was published in New York, 1981. As one of the famous and well-known western publishers up to recent days, Bantam Books published with the arrangement with Book Creations, Inc. and this is the first book of a saga of the Southwest with more than three volumes: The Hawk and the Dove, Wings of the Hawk, Revenge of the Hawk, Flight of the Hawk and so on. James contained this novel into 50 chapters and it has 434 pages. The story of The Hawk and the Dove begins when John Cooper in his early fifteen comes home from his duck-hunting with his loyal dog, Lije, and witnesses the Shawnee’s brutal massacre over his family and henceforth his lonely journey with his only Lije begins. In the same occasion when John Cooper PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 41 leaves his house after the massacre, Don Diego de Escobar, a nobleman from Spain, receives the order from the throne of Spain, Charles IV, to have his new task in the New World as the implicit meaning of being exiled from Madrid, Spain. The following years have passed by and the reality of that his family is murdered by the Shawnee does not lead him into vengeance and bad perceptions about the Indians. It is evident that during his five-year journey to find a newly true living, John Cooper Baines has joined into some Indian tribes. They are the Ayuhwa Sioux, the Skidi Pawnee, the Dakota Sioux, and the Jicarilla Apache. John Cooper has successfully made himself a good friend of them as well. After having a long voyage over the sea from Spain to New Mexico, Don Diego and his family are still to continue their land journey to Taos. In the middle of their journey, they are ambushed by a gang of Indians trying to rob what they are bringing. With the help of Spanish escorts, they can eventually overcome the sudden ambush. Therefore, due to the fact that they have less knowledge and bad experiences with the Indians, Don Diego de Escobar and his family, especially Catarina de Escobar, consider those people as ‘savage’ barbarians. Catarina de Escobar is totally irritated by the Indians after the lousy experiences in the New World. It is even worsened after her being captured and taken hostage by a gang of renegades. Fortunately, John Cooper comes and saves her. From the first moment when Catarina de Escobar meets with John Cooper, she has considered her as a ‘savage’. In order to shift Catarina de Escobar’s paradigm about him and the Indians, John Cooper, finally, has to introduce her PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 42 directly to the Apache Indians. He convinces her with his harsh life and the good Indians before she stops considering him as a ‘savage’. Eventually John Cooper marries to Catarina de Escobar and the dark paradigm that blunts Catarina about Indians this far has gradually changed. On the other hand, Catarina de Escobar’s big brother, Carlos, falls in love with a female Apache Indian and finally marries her. The marriage between Carlos and the Indian girl ends the story of The Hawk and the Dove.

3.2 Approach of the Study