Data Types The Data Source

Next, the second table is crucial to this research because it could help the researcher to answer the second research question. Thus, it was used to reveal the process of child empowerment experienced by those four child characters in the novel. The second table can be found in Table 2 below. Table 2: The Process of Child Empowerment Dat a No. Page Quotation Explanation Category 1 120 When Neville Longbottom, the boy who kept losing his toad, was called, he fell over on his way to the stool. The hat took a long time to decide with Neville. When it finally shouted, “GRYFFINDOR,” Neville ran off still wearing it, and had to jog back amid gales of laughter to give it to “MacDougal, Morag.” Neville who seems as a weak child is accepted in Gryffindor which is a dormitory for brave students. Giving children chance Next, the third table is necessary to this research to answer the third research question. Thus, this table was used to reveal the influences of child empowerment on those child characters in the novel. The third table was designed to find children’s changes which are crucial because they are the result of child empowerment. The third table can be found in the Table 3 below. Table 3: The Influences of Child Empowerment Data No Page Category Quotation Explanation 1 277 Becoming knowledgeable She leapt up and struggled toward a damp wall. She had to struggle because the moment she had landed, the plant had started to twist snakelike tendrils around her ankles. As for Harry and Ron, their legs had already been bound tightly in long creepers without their noticing. Hermione is able to elude the plant.

E. The Technique of Data Collection

The technique of data collection is about the researcher’s steps to obtain the data used in this research from J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. There were two steps done as parts of the technique of data collection. The first step referred to the close reading and re-reading activities. In this step, the researcher had to do the comprehensive and thorough reading. The researcher checked and read the novel again and again to get more convincing data and acquire deeper understanding. During the reading process, the researcher took notes because she needed to gather the relevant data related to the problems faced by children, the process of child empowerment, children’s changes after being influenced by the child empowerment.