The Worldview in Chirs Cleave’s Little Bee: A Genetic Structuralism Analysis

Abstract

This research is an analysis the issue and life of asylum seekers, such as the conditions, experiences, and feelings based on Genetic Structuralism by Lucien Goldmann to find the homology and the worldview in the novel, Little Bee. The element of the theory is talking about structure, it is in every management of division that represents the depiction of the asylum seekers in detail referring to the binary opposition. In the novel Little Bee, the binary opposition is seen indirectly from the conversations, directions, and point of view each character. The analysis includes detailed information about the conditions of asylum seekers in England in 21st Century and the author as a part of the minority groups (asylum seekers community and British society which is attention to the conditions of asylum seekers) to find the worldview. The results of this study are that Cleave wants to show the conditions, experiences, and feelings of asylum seekers in England. He also tries to criticize the immigration system and detention center in the UK. Cleave wants to say that the public must to empathize, help, and understand the condition of asylum seekers as a form of humanity. As a host country, we cannot take negative actions towards asylum seekers who are having difficulties.