Research Instruments RESEARCH METHOD

70 of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and discourses, related to the unconventional images of children as well as how deconstruction was presented. To have clearer and better understanding of the content from the text, the researcher performed careful and comprehensive reading. After that, the researcher made note in order to collect the data by rewriting them in the form of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and discourses which were related to unconventional images of children deconstructed by Wilson‟s The Illustrated Mum and how they were presented in the novel. The data, then, were categorized, labeled, and coded, such as the traits, the roles of children and the ways of deconstruction, etc. Labeling the data was based on the research questions‟ needs. Therefore, there were two main data categorizations based on the unconventional images of children and the methods of deconstruction that were presented in Wilson‟s The Illustrated Mum. The unconventional images of children established the first type of the label by presenting new and positive traits and roles of children built in the novel. The traits were caring, sensitive, responsible, etc. The roles of children were parenting, protecting one another, etc. The second type of label was how deconstruction was presented in Wilson‟s The Illustrated Mum. It was then categorized into some categories such as creating complicated plot, using different point of view, subverting 71 adultchild image, subverting goodbad image, etc. This process was useful to check and recheck the collected date to add and eliminate them.

E. Data Analysis

The researcher used textual analysis, technique of identification and interpretation sets of either verbal or non verbal signs. This technique is useful for three type of analysis: the discourse analysis, conversation analysis, and narrative analysis. Textual analysis can be conducted everywhere in which people find a text. This research technique was included as narrative analysis where it is an analysis of storytelling. At a glance, Wilson‟s The Illustrated Mum is “only” a children‟s story telling ab out how two girls dealing with “abnormal” mother. In the surface, it is merely telling the characters activities without normal mum. Whatever the author intends to tell to the audience, an interpretation is still possible. In textual analysis, especially narrative analysis, “Researchers are interested in how the story is structured and also what functions the story serves, such as building community, maintain relationship, or establishing group identity and values” Vanderstoep and Johnston, 2009: 218. The researcher saw this text as the voice of the marginal group: child, which presented unconventional images of children that were different from conventional images of children and ways of deconstructing conventional