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After having collected the data and giving code to each datum, the researcher also did another careful reading along with data interpretation.
Finally, the data were categorized into the thematic meaning related to the form of racial prejudices that are described in Harper Lee’s To Kill a
Mockingbird. Then the data of the racial prejudices that are described in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird were classified into thematic.
Furthermore, the researcher put the data into a table first and transferred into the data sheets. The researcher used a particular form of data sheet
to see the progress of her research. The data sheet was presented in table 1 below:
Table 1. The Data Sheet No.
Data Quotation Act Page
Classification Code
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The data were then arranged based on their classification, and then the researcher crosschecked and re-crosschecked the data in order to achieve
the validity.
F. The Data Analysis Technique
Given 2008: 186 states that data analysis is the important part of qualitative research that includes gathering and linking the data to be a
concept. Creswell 2009: 185 mentions that there are six steps in data analysis: organizing and preparing the data, reading through all the data,
coding the data, giving a description, interrelating description and interpreting the meaning of description. Six steps to analyze the data are explained below.
1. The first is identifying the data from the novel by making some notes. 2. The second is reading and rereading the whole data and arranging the data
into a theme: racial prejudice revealed in the novel. 3. The third is coding and categorizing the data in the data table into some
categories related to the forms of racial prejudice in Maycomb. 4. The fourth is sorting the data by selecting the relevant data and excluding
the irrelevant data. The selected relevant data were classified and interpreted according to its thematic meaning.
5. The fifth is making the interrelation between the descriptions of the data and the theory to get the findings based on the objectives; the identification of
racial prejudice in Maycomb.
