both good and bad experience when she worked as a servant but she kept struggling to get a better life.
Then, in her adulthood, she came back to the settlement and met a guy, and then she married him. She began her journey with her husband. She and her husband
had to struggle to raise their children. She moved from one place to another place to work and get a better life.
In her old age, she finally could go back to her hometown and met the rest of her family who she left behind when she was taken to the settlement. She spent
her old age in Geraldton and she was happy that she was able to live peacefully. This novel is focus on Alice and also her Mother’s life and struggle as an
aboriginal woman in her society that dominated by man and white people. They had to survive by travel from one place to another in order to get better life. Sometimes
they had to experience the suffers from the law that existed in their society.
B. Approach of the Study
As this research focuses on the female character, the researcher uses Feminism as an Approach to analyze the literary work that has a women or female
character as the main concern. Indeed, feminism has often focused upon what is absent rather than what is
present, reflecting concern with the silencing and marginalization of women in a patriarchal culture, a culture organized in the favor of men Guerin,
2005: 222-223.
From the quotation above, using Feminism to analyze this novel can help the researcher know more about the characteristic of Alice as an aborigine woman, her
own life experience, what she felt in any condition that told in the novel, and what she did to struggle against her society domination.
C. Method of the Study
The method that the writer uses in this study is Library Research. The main data or sources for the research were taken from the novel When The Pelican
Laughed, and the writer gets secondary sources and some theories to analyze the data from books of literature, related theories, and also the book of feminism since
the writer use feminism approach to analyze the novel. There are some steps that the writer did to doing this research. The first step
was reading the novel very carefully to understand what the main concern of the novel and find the practice of patriarchy and also the response from the main female
characters to the practice of patriarchy. Next, the writer chose the Feminism Approach to analyze the novel When
The Pelican Laughed since the main female character that really complex and become the main concern in the novel and also using the theory of characterization
to know all about Ngulyi and Alice as major female characters. The writer searched some supportive data and theories through books in the library and e-book.
Then, the researcher paid more attention to the major female characters’ characteristics and their life experience including all their suffer in the story and
