consequences and derive faithful explanation Miles Huberman, 1994: 10. Merriam as cited by Creswell 1994: 145 stated that qualitative research
emphasizes on a process, meaning and understanding gained through words or picture. Furthermore, she also said that a qualitative research is a kind of
interpretative research. The biases, values, and judgment of the researcher are stated explicitly in a research report.
For that reason, the result of the research will be delivered in the form of words. This research focuses on the human life experience which is religious
fanaticism reflected in the character of the novel, so this research adopts in the ethnography methodology. Ethnography is one of the methodologies for
descriptive studies of cultures and people B. Hancock, 2006. Thus, the main instruments in this research are the writer and the
observation sheets. A manual transcription or note of findings will be written down in observation sheets that contain data selections. It must be transcribed in
order to have some observation results and find patterns in the information. The observation sheets are attached in the appendix.
3.4 Procedures of Collecting Data
In analyzing the object of the study, there are techniques in finding and collecting data. They are reading, identifying, inventorying, classifying, searching and
selecting. Those techniques will be explained as follows:
3.4.1 Reading Since the object of the study is a novel, the basic step in collecting the data is
reading the novel itself. To understand the story deeper, reading the novel for several times is very important. Reading also conducts to analyze the data because
it is very important to read the novel script in finding dialogues or situations, which are related to Religious fanaticism.
3.4.2 Identifying
Identifying in this research means the activity of separating between the Religious fanaticism‘s behaviors in the novel and the American people view‘s about
religious fanaticism that appears in the novel by marking with underlining data refers to Religious
fanaticism‘s behaviors and bracketing data to American people view‘s about religious fanaticism in the novel. The data below show problems:
1. Momma had, of course, forbade her to shower with the other girls; Carrie
had hidden her shower things in her school locker and had showered anyway, taking part in a naked ritual that was shameful and embarrassing
to her in hopes that the circle around her might fade a little, just a little. page 47 line 18
2. Momma had been bad when she made her and that was why she had them.
She called them dirty pillows, as if it was all one word page 61 line 1 3.
Due to the Whites near-fanatical fundamentalist religious beliefs, Mrs. White had no friends to see her through her period of bereavement. And
when her labor began seven months later, she was alone. page 28 line 15
