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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
Chapter three is divided into three sections. First is the object of the study. The second section focuses on the chosen approaches which are used in this
analysis. The third section concerns on the steps in completing the study.
A. Object of the Study
The object of this thesis is a novel by V.S Naipaul. Naipaul was born in Chaguanas, Trinidad in 1932. He goes to England on a scholarship in 1950. After
four years at University College, Oxford, he begins to write. His first book is Mystic Masseur 1957, comic portraits of Trinidadian society. The Mystic
Masseur wins the Mail on Sunday or John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1958 and is adapted as a film with a screenplay by Caryl Phillips in 2001.
Magic Seeds is his last novel. It is originally published in Great Britain by Picador, London, in 2004. In this thesis the writer uses Random
House of Canada edition published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada, Toronto in 2004. The novel consists of twelve chapters. The number of the pages is 282
pages. V.S Naipaul’s Magic Seeds tells the story about Willie has travelled
from Africa to Berlin, India and up to London. He marries a woman of mixed Portuguese and African ancestry. He lives with his wife in Africa for 18 years.
Later he travelled to Berlin to follow his sister, Sarojini. In Berlin, Sarojini
criticizes of Willie’s passivity in revolutionaries in Africa. Sarojini asks his
brother to enlist in revolution group in India. Willie agrees to join a revolution group. In India, he joins the wrong group and undergoes a long period of aimless
marching, murder and hiding out in the forest. Years later he escapes and is imprisoned. His sister, however, recruits Roger, an English lawyer and publisher
who has known Willie during his student life. In a short while he is on a plane to London, where Roger finds him a rich
patron and a job on a trade journal. The book ends with Willie reflecting on his life and on Britains new multi-racial identity.
B. Approach of the Study
The writer uses postcolonial approach to analyze this novel because the postcolonial study concerns on general process with some shared features across
the globe. “But if it is uprooted from specific locations, “postcoloniality” cannot
be meaningfully investigated, and instead, the term begins to obscure the relations of domin
ation that it seeks to uncover” Loomba, 2005: 22. It means that how the native populations are destroyed, oppressed or otherwise transformed by the
process of colonization itself; how those populations struggled to achieve freedom from the colonial forces and how the effects colonialism continue to be felt in
both the colonized and colonizing nations. In other words, postcolonial approach is able to analyze how the
“metropolis” and the “colony” are deeply altered by the colonial process. Thus, the aftermaths of the colonization change the all circumstances in colony side. The
aftermaths include all aspects of life such as economic, social and cultural. This approach is suitable to analyze Naipaul’s novel because it deals with the
relationship between the colonizers and the colonized and how the colonization aftermaths stimulate diasporic movement of the colonized people.
C. Method of the Study
In getting the answer of the problem formulations, the writer used the library research method. To support the study, the writer used two kinds of
resource: primary resource and secondary resources. The primary resource on the study was
the novel itself; Naipaul’s Magic Seeds. The secondary resources were some books that were used to support the analysis of this study especially the
books which were related to the Africa society during colonization, Indian society after independence, and England society from 1957- 1960 and also the books
about theories of postcolonialism like ColonialismPostcolonialism written by Ania Loomba, The Post-colonial Studies Reader written by Ascroft, Griffits and
Tiffin, Postcolonial Theory written by Leela Gandhi, Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory, Colonial Postcolonial Literature,
Postcolonial Discourse: An Anthology, Orientalism and Colonization: A Global History. To collect the information about literature, the writer used the book
namely A Handbook to Literature, The Theory of Literature, A Glossary of Literary Terms, Reading the Novel, Reading and Writing about Literature,
Understanding Unseen: An Introduction to English Poetry and the English Novel
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