Research Design Data Collection

3.1 Research Design

Referring to the qualitativedescriptive method as the method, this thesis needs several data that related to the study discussed. The writer uses Kathryn Stockett’ The Help as the main source because the novel contents the important information for the subject matter that is being analyzed. Other material, such journals, books, or other online sources are also used as the support in finishing this thesis. Researcher Source of Data: The Help Conclusion Data: Character and quotations from the text of novel The Help Method: Qualitative Descriptive Data Selected- Interpret- Analysis Universitas Sumatera Utara

3.2 Data Collection

In collecting data for this thesis, the library research was supported to find the data. Library research is the research in the library or researcher tries to get and collect data or information on the research object through books, journal, paper, and articles. As Wellek and Warren 1977: 58 said, since the majority of student can find their source materials in libraries, a knowledge of most important libraries and familiarity with catalogues as well as other reference books is undoubtedly an important equipment of almost every student of literature. By using this technique, it can helps to get the information to write this thesis. The primary sources of the research is The Help, and related literatures as additional source and other sources are internet. Here, some steps. These steps are done to make a systematical data and keep it’s validity. The steps are begun by reading and understanding novel The Help. From this step some general data relating with thekinds of segregation and discrimination and the impacts of segregation and racial discrimination happened in Kathryn Stockett’ The Help in form of paragraphs, phrases and sentences can be found. After this step, the next step is to choose the data which only deals with the problems of the study; it is about thekinds of segregation and discrimination and the cause of it and weather does or not the novel reflect the condition of racial discrimination in South of America in the last of 19th century. To make the process of writing the result of study easy, in this step gives red colors to the sentences or paragraph which are used as data. The last step of data collecting is simplifying the data and to find the only appropriate data which can be analyzed to answer the problems of the study. Reading, collecting, and selecting related books, e-books, and online journals are the activities done to support the analysis as well. Universitas Sumatera Utara

3.3 Data Analysis