indeterminacy, defining Postcolonial identities as shifting, hybrid constructions. Guerin, 2011:364.
Postcolonial characteristic includes give the positive effects to the one who is being colonized by the colonizer. The colonized orient can be free and
independent after the colonization that heshe experiences.
C. Method of the Study
The method of the study in analyzing the work and answering the problem formulation was library research. Library research is a method that the writer
needs to find the books and some sources in the internet. The writer searched for the object for the study first, and then looked for some other books to support the
primary source of this study. The primary source of this study is the When The Pelican Laughed
novel, while the second source is the theories. The theories are theory of character and characteristic, theory of Racism, and theory of
Postcolonial. After finding the primary source of this study, the writer searched for
books, articles, journals, or eBooks that is related to the writer‟s discussion. After that, the writer looked for the books that are related to the approach that the writer
wanted to use in this study. It is used in analyzing the novel and strengthens the writer‟s analysis. After the writer found which approach that was suitable for the
writer‟s work, then the writer picked one approach to be applied as the primary theory in analyzing the novel. After that, the writer made the analysis which
contains the answer of the three problem formulations. After making the analysis,
the writer made the conclusion. The conclusion contains the brief explanation about the whole study, and also the result of the conducted study.
CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS
This chapter contains the answer of the problem formulations that are already conducted by the writer in Chapter I. In the first part, the writer discusses
the characterization of the main character in the novel; in the second part, the writer discusses
the whites‟ actiondiscrimination done toward The Aborigines; while in the third part, the writer discusses how the discrimination in Alice
Nannup‟s When The Pelican Laughed affects the main character.
A. The description of the Main Character: Alice Nannup
In describing the characterization of the main character in the novel, the writer uses Robert Stanton‟s theory in his book An Introduction to Fiction about
character. Stanton stated that character is the individual who appears in the story. “It refers to the mixture of interests, desires, emotions, and moral principles that
makes up each of these individuals” 1965:17. The main character in this novel is the narrator itself. The narrator uses pronoun I as she was telling the story. It is
first person narrative. The first person narrative is conscious of her own thoughts. The narrator in this novel is the author itself, but literally author is different from
the narrator. Author is the one who writes a book while narrator is the person who narrates storyteller. Narrator is a character created by the author who has a limit.
