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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter consists of three parts. Those parts are object of the study, approach of the study, and method of the study.
3.1. Object of the Study
The object of this study is The Education of Little Tree, a novel written by Forest Carter. The novel tells about Little Tree, a half Indian child, and his
education process. The setting of the novel is Tennessee, Appalachian in 1930s. His grandmother is Cherokee Indian who married with a man from
assimilation between Red Wing, Indian Cherokee, with white people. Then, Little Tree’s father married with a white people. After the death of his parents, Little
Tree lived with his Cherokee grandparents. He was educated in Indian way. His grandparents taught him about Indian life. He enjoyed the educational process
very much. Yet, the conflict appeared when the law stated that he had to be put into an orphanage, where white people kept young Indian who did not have
parents. It was one of white ways to indoctrinate Indian generation. Little Tree was put in the orphanage. He was educated as White there. The
system and the method were so different with the education he got from Granpa. The system was full with discipline, politeness, and physical punishments for
children. Finally, Little Tree run away from the orphanage and lived with his grandparents in the mountain. He lived as Indian.
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3.2. Approach of the Study
Postcolonial criticism is used as approach in this study. According to Ania Loomba in ColonialismPost-colonialism, postcolonial addresses all aspects of the
colonial process from the beginning of colonial until after-independence, all the process that testify the fact that postcolonialism is a continuing process of
resistance and reconstruction Loomba, 2000: 2. This approach is contextual to analyze the novel, since there is unbalance
power relationship between Cherokee and White. In the novel, Cherokee is the colonized, while White is the colonizer.
This approach is implemented to reveal the postcolonial issues in the novel. It focuses to find out the reactions of the main character in the novel
against colonial education.
3.3. Method of the Study
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