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3.2 Data and Data Source
This is library research. Library research works through from many books and references like , articles, journals, and websites in doing this research to
support the topic. Here the writer takes the novel as the object. So this research also works by using some books that concerning to the topic, some literature
books, articles, journals and website. Actually there are two sources of data, they are the primary data and the secondary data. In this research, the source of
primary data is the novel itself that is written by Betty Smith. Source
: A Tree Grows In Brooklyn Novel Written
: Betty Smith Publisher
: Harper and Row Publisher, New York Tick
: 322 in English Language and 648 in Indonesia language Copyright
: 1943 And the secondary data is taken from some critical works, some books concern to
the topic and the explanation of feminism and exsistence theory. This researh uses documentation methode. Firstly, the writer finds the book and the other references
to get more data that relates exsistence and feminism approach. In this case, the writer uses the novel as a form of text to be analyzed. In addition, the writer also
does searching more data to get the understanding The Feminism Found in Betty Smith’s Novel
and the theory by web surfing. In analyzing data, the writer makes the list of data to select the necessary
data that scan be analyzed in this research. Secondly, is collecting and classifying the data concerning the cases of the research. In this step, the writer will apply the
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theory that is concerned with the problem of the research to be described and to analyze data with the theory. Then after describing and analyzing data, the writer
concludes the discussion of the data into the conclusion that is important to be read.
3.3 Data Collecting Procedures
In literature, through the medium of language, either spoken or written language, the overall social behavior can only be felt presence. Limited language
skills in displaying images and stories, reflections and which in turn affects the emotions of the reader. Elements as introduced in structuralism, such as themes,
characterizations, plot, setting, character, and moral message are aesthetic qualities so obtained through avocate sharpness in the image and story. But in this
paper, the authors do not explain any elements of structuralism in detail but only a few elements are certainly related to novel studied.
As these elements are the themes, characters, characterizations and moral message. These elements that play an important role in the assessment of this
scientific work.This is because the writer doesnot examine part structuralism elements used in the novelbut describing the struggle of the main character uses
the theory of feminism approach. And in the assessment process, the authors use qualitative methods. Qualitative methods give attention to the data naturally, the
data in relation to the context of its existence. The ways that encourages qualitative methods are considered as multimethode because research in turn
involves a large number of relevant social phenomena. In the research literature will be involved authors, social environtment where the author is located,
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including elements of culture in general. Thequalitative method is the paradigm of positivism Max Weber, Immanuel Kant, Wilhelm Dilthey. As the name implies,
the nature of qualitative research maintain values while quantitative research is value-free. In literature science data source is the novel, the script, the data
research, as the formal data are words, sentences, and discourse.
3.4 Data Analyis Method
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