ABSTRACT
Siti Masyitoh, The Identity of Biracial Child in Getting Ullder My Skill By DOll TeJ'ly. Thesis. Jakarta: English Letters Department, Letters and Humanities Faculty, State Islamic University SyarifHidayatullah Jakarta, October 2009.
The aim of this research is to analyze the identity of Don, the main character of the story, who is biracial from the short story Getting underMySkill. In the research, the writer concerns her analysis to the concept of identity by Giles and Middleton in analyzing the character's identity. The writer uses descriptive qualitative method as the method of the analysis in order to find out the identity of the main character, Don, who is a biracial child of a black father and a white mother.
According to the research, the writer found that Don, the main character of the story faced identity-confusion in identiJYing his identity since he was a biracial child of a black father and a white mother. He tried to put himself by being an integrated man of both black and white, but since the society had only known black and white, he could only be one of those races. In order to find out Don's identity, the writer tried to analyze the society's treatment to Don as a biracial and Don's feeling as a biracial. Finally, the writer analyzed the data using the concept of identity to figure out his identity in his confusion of being black or white.
