Method of the Study

C. Method of the Study

In this study, library study is used. It means that the main procedure to gain the data was reading and taking some notes. Using this method, the writer could get important data that the writer used to analyze the questions presented in the problem formulations. Here, those steps are taken in this study. The first step was reading and rereading the novel The God of Small Things. It took a long time because the novel is not an ordinary one. The writer needed a lot of time and the writer had to use all of the writer’s imagination to get the idea of the novel so that the writer could present it in a summary. The second step was finding the difficult words of the novel since this novel contains a lot of difficult English words and some terms in India. Therefore the writer used the Longman English Dictionary and searched in the Internet to find the meaning of the India’s terms. The third step was finding the significance of the socio-cultural and women equality. The writer read some books related to women and caste such as: Caste in India by Hutton, Equality and Liberty by Kai Nielsen, Flame Waves by Sri Chinmoy, Feminism : A Reader by Maggie Humm, The Natural Superiority of Women by Montagu, Psychology : an Introduction by Charles G Morris, The Third Force by Frank G Goble. The fourth step was analyzing the socio-cultural influences toward women equality in India. The writer read some books such as: Social Inequality by Andre Beteile, Mother India by Katherine Mayo. The writer also collected data from the Internet to find other information about women equality in India. Then, the writer applied the socio-cultural historical approach and psychological approach to analyze the influence of the socio-cultural background to the women’s equality in India. CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS This chapter discusses the three questions stated in the problem formulations. The first part is about the character of Ammu. The second parts are the portrayal of caste system in the novel, Ammu’s struggles and the reasons why Ammu struggles for equality that is described in The God of Small Things.

A. The Description of Ammu