criticism towards capitalist ideologies and the corresponding culture in Collins’ The Hunger Games.
B. Data and Source of Data
The primary data source of the research was Suzanne Collins’ novel entitled The Hunger Games which was first published in 2008, with the paperback
edition published in 2009. The novel is comprised of 374 pages and three parts with 27 subparts. Therefore the data collected for this research were in the forms
of language features such as words, phrases, clauses, and sentences, taken from the primary data source. The data were collected based on the theoretical
framework used in this research, i.e. Karl Marx’ theory of ideology stemmed from his conception of historical reality discussed in Lois Tyson’s Critical Theory
Today: a User-Friendly Guide with the related discussion in Terry Eagleton’s Marxism and Literary Criticism. The researcher also used other sources from
printed materials and the internet including academic journals and other books that explains Marx’s theory of ideology such as Eagleton’s Ideology: an
Introduction.
C. Research Instrument
A research instrument is the equipment applied in a certain work, study, or research for a scientific purpose Hornby, 1995: 619. A researcher is the key
instrument in a research. The researcher gathers data through examining documents, observing behavior, and interviewing participants if necessary. In
gathering the data, the researcher is encouraged to follow some protocols or procedures, but she has to conduct these procedures herself.
Therefore, by conducting the research, the researcher worked as the human instrument. She initially planned the research, marked and collected the data,
scrutinized and interpreted them, and finally reported the result of the analysis according to the procedures. The researcher also arranged the data and the
corresponding interpretation into the data sheet, which is useful to scrutinize the data systematically.
D. Data Collecting Technique
The process of collecting data consisted of reading, note taking, interpreting, and categorizing. The first step taken was reading and scrutinizing
the primary source of the research, which was Collins’ The Hunger Games. Secondly, the researcher took notes of parts of the novel that were relevant to the
research and highlighted these parts to be used as the data. Thirdly, the researcher interpreted these data using the theoretical framework used for this research.
Lastly, the data were categorized into a particular form of data sheet and the researcher highlighted the quotation related to the findings. The data sheet
functioned to track the progress of the research while organizing the data into categorization. The form of data sheet is presented in the figure as follow.
Kategori