The Data and the Source of Data Research Instruments
six steps namely organizing and preparing the data, reading the whole data, coding the data, sorting the data, interrelating description, and interpreting the
meaning of description. Below is the description of those six steps. 1.
First, the researcher identified the data which were taken from the novel by making some notes.
2. Second, the researcher read and re-read the whole data and arranging them
into two major topics under the study. The first analysis was gender discrimination and the second analysis was the attitudes of women towards
the discrimination. 3.
Third, the researcher categorized the data into thematic categories related to gender discrimination and the attitudes of women towards the discrimination.
4. Fourth, the researcher sorted the data to get the more relevant data. Thus, the
irrelevant data were excluded. 5.
Fifth, the data analysis process moved towards the process of making interrelation between the description of the data and the theories to get
findings based on the objectives of the research: to reveal what kinds of gender discrimination and women‟s attitudes towards it in Hosseini‟s A
Thousand Splendid Suns. 6.
Sixth, the researcher engaged in making interpretation of the findings based on her comprehension about the theories which were used.