Table 1. The Form of Datasheet No.
Category Sub Category
Data Page
1. The Narrations of Female
Subordination Vulnerability
He pulls off her stockings to inspect
her heels. In his hands, her feet are
as light as birds. 88
Fear 5
Irrationality and
Emotionally Instability
97
Submission 305
2. The Narrations of Male
Domination Power
The Germans, a gardener
claims, have
sixty thousand
troop gliders; they can
march for
days without
eating; they
impregnate every
schoolgirl they
meet. A
woman behind the ticket counter says
the Germans carry fog pills and wear
rocket belts; their uniforms,
she whispers, are made
of a special cloth stronger than steel.
59
Bravery Werner can hear
the Austrians two floors
up scrambling,
reloading, and the receding
screams of both shells as
they hurtle above the ocean, already
two or three miles away. One of the
soldiers,
he realizes, is singing.
Or maybe it is more
than one.
Maybe they are all singing.
Eight Luftwaffe
men, none of whom will
survive the hour, singing a love song
to their queen. 8
Rationality and
Intellectuality In a week he can
dismantle and
rebuild it with his eyes
closed. Capacitor,
inductor, tuning
coil, earpiece. One wire
goes to
ground, the other to sky. Nothing he’s
encountered before has made so much
sense. 38
Heroism He is here. He is
right below me. Do something.
Save her. But God is
only a white cold eye,
a quarter-
moon poised above the
smoke, blinking, blinking,
as the
city is
gradually pounded to dust.
393
D. Research Instrument
Vanderstoep 2009: 211 states that the instrument of research in textual analysis is the researcher himself or herself. The key role of research instrument in a
textual analysis is to interpret the data. The research instrument of this research was also the researcher himself. He actually acted as the data gatherer, identifier,
categorizer as well as being the interpreter. Initially, he started by collecting data about gender narratives in Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See by reading
thoroughly and rereading it again carefully to strengthen his understanding about the work. Then, he identified the possible data of gender narratives continued by
categorizing those identified data. The final task of the researcher was then to interpret those categorized data. He interpreted the gender narratives found in the
novel as the salient findings of the research.
E. Data Analysis
Narrative analysis was used to analyze the data from this research. Research on literary narrative emerges as dissatisfaction from commonly found views of
literary impressiveness in order to gain an objective view in viewing literary works Pavel in van Dijk, 1985: 85. Literature is closely connected with narratology.
Herman and Vervaeck 2005: 109 assert that the methodology of postmodern narrative analysis is dependent on the
researcher’s thoughts in criticizing the text. This was caused by the fact that the study of postmodern or postructuralist narrative
is no longer centralized to the study of structure. It tends to emphasize the contextual study of text which relates to many theoretical narrative discourses. Thus, the data
analysis on this research started from the researcher’s point of view on feminist
narratology. Feminism was used as the central point of guidance in analyzing the text or the data.
There were at least five steps in analyzing the data under this research. The steps are as follow;
1. The first was reading the novel of Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, as
part of collecting the data. 2.
The second was identifying which text words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and paragraphs belongs to the narratives of gender in the
novel. 3.
The third was categorizing those identified data into thematic based in accordance with the objectives of this research.
4. The fourth was examining those categorized data by comparing them to
major theoretical narratives of feminism. 5.
The fifth was interpreting those comparisons by relating them to feminist narratology on how women should be represented.
F. Data Trustworthiness
Keeping the data as trustworthy as possible is an important element in conducting research aimed to gain trustable findings. The measurement method to
control the credibility of research is one of the determinant factors in deciding research is good or not. Moreover, it will also show how objective research is.
Neuman 2007: 115 says that reliability and validity are inherently essential to the measurement process.
Reliability in qualitative research is somewhat different from quantitative research. Commonly, it is defined as a consistency which shows that research can be
held accountable. However, in qualitative research, reliability does not narrowly
defined as a merely consistency of results rather it is also emphasized on its close relation with reality or truth in social life which cannot be measured by simply rigid
method of demanding consistency Neuman, 2007: 120. It means qualitative research can be held reliable from its ability to offer an authentic description of
reality. In this research, the researcher employed analytical constructs in order to examine the collected data logically. The analytical constructs were theoretical
concepts directed from the fundamental inquiries of popular social problems integrated in the objectives of this research. The step was started by explaining the
definition of every construct being used in the research as clear as possible using a specific point of view hold by the researcher. The researcher used feminist
narratological point of view on women equality to start conducting this research. The data acquired were then read and re-read closely and carefully to match with the
analytical constructs explained previously. Checking and rechecking those matched data were done to evaluate the certainty and consistency of the analysis. These steps
were hoped to achieve an optimum accuracy in interpreting the data. On the other hand, validity is defined as truthfulness of the research Neuman,
2007: 115. It is actually the uniqueness of qualitative research in nature. Validity can be gained through various methods. The process of analysis mentioned in the
previous paragraph has already established validity aside from gaining certainty as a result of the consistent analysis. The validity can be seen from the involvement of
fundamental inquires of popular social problems and the theoretical concepts it follows embedded in the research. It will be seen eventually from
the research’s
