Research Design THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIETY IN THE MAIN CHARACTER’S SELF IDENTITY AS AN INDIAN IMMIGRANT REFLECTED IN THE NAMESAKE NOVEL BY JHUMPA LAHIRI

that the fundamental belief of qualitative research is to create meaning for individual study. I also use psychology in literature as my approach. In this research, I focuse on Sigmund Freud‟s theory about three systems of someone personality, they are id, ego, and superego. Id is insting impulsive which is eqquipped to the human when one was born and it works with the human pleasure. Ego is a part of realistic thinking which means ego arranging the plan, pleasing the needs and testing the plan. While, superego is commonly influenced by instruction and guidance of the society when the human was in childhood. I use this theory because this research was focused on the main character‟s self-identity development that influenced by his society. His needed of a pleasure in assimilating himself in his society, make him change his self-identity when he faced that his society cannot accept his Indian identity.

3.2. Research Instruments

According to Sugiyono 2007:292, in qualitative research, the researcher or the members of the group of the researchers take the role as the key instrument of the research. An observation sheet is used in order to help the writer as the key instrument of this research. The observation sheet is in the form of table as follows: No Answer Question No. Data Data Location Page Line 1 2 Table 3.1 : Observation Sheet Table

3.3. Data collection

The data collection is done through library research. In collecting data, I use two sources, namely primary sources and secondary sources 3.3.1. Primary data Primary data are data which are collected for the specific research problem directly through the procedures appropriate to the research problem Hox Boeije: 2005, 593. Some citations from The Namesake novel by Jhumpa Lahiri were used as the primary data in this reasearch.

3.3.2. Secondary data

According to Hox Boeije 2005:593, secondary data are primary data which are reused in new research after the addition of new data. The secondary data, which I used, includes dictionaries, collecting data from internet, library research and other reference books in order to get the theories that are used in this research.