Research Instruments RESEARCH METHOD
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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
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adultchild image, subverting goodbad image, etc. This process was useful to check and recheck the collected date to add and eliminate them.