iii found no place for him there since he was suspected as being an intellectual who
wanted to oppose the party’s policies.
CHAPTER III METHOD OF INVESTIGATION
3.1
Object of the Study
The object of the study is a novel entitled Native Son written by Richard Wright. Harper Parental, a division of Harper Collins Publishers published it
in 1998. It has three chapters, each of them are: Fear 95 pages, Flight 176 pages, and Fate 160 pages. It is about the life of Bigger Thomas who
accidentally committed two murders, a rich white girl named Mary Dalton and his love named Bessie Mears that later dragged the Communist existence.
3.2 Types of Data
The data of this study are in the form of words, phrases, sentences, written dialogues, explicit and implicit meanings found in the novel.
3.3 Approach of the Study
The writer uses a sociological approach in this study. He assumes that this approach is the appropriate one since this novel is looking for the Communist
propaganda towards the Blacks.
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3.4 Method and Procedures of Collecting Data
The writer collects the data by applying some steps stated as followings: 1. Reading the novel as a very step in collecting data, the writer read Native
Son many times to understand and comprehend it toward the topic of this study.
2. Identifying the data by underlining, bracketing, marking, and then numbering the data.
3. Inventorying the data by listing the data into column in several variables. In order to make it easier, the writer use table to put the identified data in
it. 4. Classifying of the data based on the problems that will be answered, for
example, the second problem, What are the forms of Communism found in the novel? In answering it, the data will be taken from Appendices 1.
5. Analyzing the data. It means the writer analyzes the selected data with its reasons why the data support the determination problems. The complete
analysis will be reported in chapter IV as the result of this study.
3.5 Analysis of the Data
In analyzing the data, the writer would like to analyze the forms of Communism and the relationship between those forms and the life of
iii American Black society that are found in Wright’s Native Son. Finally, the
writer would draw his conclusion based on the analyzed data about the way how Native Son could be regarded as a Communist propaganda toward
American Black people.
3.6 Technique of Reporting the Result
The writer chooses the descriptive method on reporting the result of the analysis. The method involves description, analysis, and interpreting of the
condition that exist in the novel.
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CHAPTER IV DATA ANALYSES
