C. Method of the Study
This part is about the procedures that were taken in analyzing the work. First is this study uses library research because most of data include theories and
information that the writer use to support the analysis was taken from library. Second is about the primary and the secondary sources.
The primary source was from the novel written by Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees. Then, the secondary sources were from some books. They
were A Glossary of Literary Terms by Abram, Understanding Unseen by M.J. Murphy, A Shining Thread of Hope: A History of Black women in America by
Hine and Thompson, American Ethnicity: The Dynamics and Consequences of Discrimination by Aguirre and Turner, Race and Culture Contacs in the Modern
World by Frazier, Race and Culture by Thomas Sowell, Reading and Writing about Literature by Rohrberger and Woods, Theory of Literature by Wellek And
Warren. Third is about the steps which were taken in the analysis. First was by
reading over and over again the novel in order to understand more about the story of the novel. After the writer understood the novel, the writer chose the most
interesting part of the novel that the writer was curious about and chose the topic. After choosing the topic, the writer started to find the background of the study and
also the problems that related to the topic. To discover the topic the writer started to find related studies and related theories that could support the analysis.
Approach that is used in this study is socio-cultural historical approach.
The last was the writer answered the problem formulation one through comparing theories that were chosen with content of the novel. This step was also
used to analyze problem formulation two and three. However, the writer covered all the answer using the approach that was taken before. Finally, the writer made
the conclusion.
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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS
The Secret Life of Bees tells about the life of African American women against racial discrimination in South Carolina. This chapter is divided into three
parts which are the answers of the problem formulations questioned in chapter one. The first part analyzes about the characteristics of the Black women
characters in novel, Rosaleen Daisy, August Boatwright, June Boatwright, May Boatwright and April Boatwright. The second part discusses the practices of racial
discrimination in 1960 as described in novel. The last part discusses the African American women
‟s struggle against racial discrimination through the characters in The Secret Life of Bees.
A. The Characteristics of the African American Women
In this part the writer‟s analysis is about the African American Women characteristics in the novel entitled The Secret Life of Bees is written by Sue Monk
Kidd. As explained in Chapter II, character is the important element that makes the story alive. Character is also the object in the novel and without it, the story
cannot be made. Abrams and Harpham in their book, A Glossary of Literary Terms-tenth Edition, state that the characters are:
The persons represented in a dramatic or narrative work, who are interpreted by the reader as possessing particular moral, intellectual, and
emotional qualities by inferences from what the persons say and their distinctive ways of saying it- the dialogue-and from what they do-the
action.
The grounds in the characters‟ temperament, desires, and moral nature for their speech and actions are called their motivation Abrams and
Harpham, 2012: 46.
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