Object of the Study Approach of the Study

identity. Finally, the writer wrote these conclusions in the final chapter of this research. 33

CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS

This chapter aimed to provide analysis and answers to the problem formulations. Therefore, this chapter consists of three parts. The first part discussed how Kay’s character being potrayed in the novel. The second part discusses the stereotypes that Kay experienced as a Chinese American. The third part explains how Kay reacts to those stereotypes to find her racial identity.

A. Kay’s Potrayal in the Novel

This subtitle analyzed how Kay’s being portrayed in the novel through Kay’s character and characterization. In order to analyzed Kay’s character, the writer relied on Abrams and Gill’s definition of character. They each has their own definition about character but strengthen each other. Combining their definition, the writer concluded that the character is a figure in literary works who represents peole in real world and must have an identity despite of how weak it is. For characterization, the writer used Gill’s definition that characterization is “the way in which a character is created” Gill, 1995 : 127. While to identified how the author potrayed Kay’s character, the writer used Murphy’s nine ways of characterization. By using this theories, Kay character and characterization could be analyzed. For the first part of the character and characterization analysis, the writer provided analysis about Kay’s physical appereance first, and later her way of thinking. About Kay’s physical appereances, the author gave a little insight about it because her novel concerned more about Kay’s way of thinking. However, there was a part in introduction that described Kay’s physical appereance seen from her mother’s point of view. Through the eyes of Kay’s mother Irene, Fei noted that Kay is “tall and tan and strong, with a surpsising delicacy to her brow and chin” and also has “trademark grin, wide, and cheesy, kept her from ever appearing as if she’d tried to look pretty” Fei, 2010 : 4. According to Murphy, when the author described the character through the eyes and opinions of the other character is the kind of characterization called “Character as seen by another.” Switching to Kay’s mental character and way of thinking, Fei gave several points in the novel that showed Kay as a open-minded, extrovert, and strong woman. When she was child, she head-butted a school bully and invited his victim over to play eventhough she didn’t like the kid either Fei, 2010 : 4. She also dare to curse at the neighbourhood boys who pulled slanted eyes at them and called the Chinks, an act taught by her sister Nora Fei, 2010 : 15. As Kay grew older, she became a person who willing to speak and stand for herself. An act that can be seen from the event when she told a white men to “Go fuck yourself” and “Fuck off” when the white men seduced her and later her sisters, expecting they would fell for white men just like the other Chinese’s girl Fei, 2010 : 73, 218. She also dislike how the white men portray Asian girl, particularly Chinese, as meek and voiceless which made her has one-sided conflict with her roommate Tomoko Fei, 2010 : 213. Kay also pictured as a very smart girl. It can be seen from how she became valedictorian a student with the highest grade in her year