asked. “We
can’t even
go outside.
How can we lead men into battle? I’ve
seen enough war. I don’t want to see
any more.” change
anything. Therefore,
she hesitates to do an
action.
Desperation and
Unwillingness to Struggle
D. Data Collection Technique
There were two steps in collecting the data in this research. The first step was the process of reading and rereading the data sources in order to get
understanding in the deep manner. Firstly, the process was done through reading the text of Ellis’s The Breadwinner line by line and repeating to read it.
Secondly, to support the understanding regarding children who face gender inequality, reading per line and rereading were also conducted in the secondary
data. The process of reading line by line and rereading the text enabled the researcher to comprehend the text based on the objectives of the research.
The second step was collecting, classifying and categorizing the data. Firstly, the data were highlighted and noted. The noting process was done by
rewriting the main idea of the words, phrases, clauses and sentences related to Parvana’s struggles against gender inequality in Taliban Society and the page
where it belongs to. Secondly, the data were classified based on the objectives of the research. Therefore, there were three data classifications in this research:
1 harms that gender inequality put on female children in Taliban society, 2 how Parvana struggles against gender inequality in Taliban society, and 3
significant meanings of Parvana’s struggles to female children in Taliban society. The data classification was done in order to ease the data analysis.
Lastly, categorization of some expressions which have the similar meaning was
conducted. For example, categorizing some expressions into subcategory of fear and lack of confidence.
E. Data Analysis Technique
The method to analyze the data in this research is content analysis. Content analysis deals with the text analysis upon one particular phenomenon.
Therefore, the people’s interpretation is essential to analyze the phenomenon.
According to Hsieh and Shannon 2005, content analysis deals with ‘subjective interpretation’ of the text through the ‘systematic classification
processes’. The interpretation of the phenomenon is subjective due to the different background and exposure that every person gets. In order to do
comprehensive interpretation when analyzing the data, the data in this research were firstly classified systematically.
After the data were classified based on the objectives, the data then were interpreted in order to gain the new insight of the objectives. The data which
were in the forms of words, phrases, clauses and sentences related to Parvana’s struggles against gender inequality in Taliban society seen from Deborah Ellis’
The Breadwinner were interpreted based on the objectives of this research. Several steps were conducted in order to analyze the data:
1. reading Ellis’ The Breadwinner line by line and rereading it in order to gain comprehensive understanding;
2. highlighting and noting the words, phrases, clauses and sentences related to Parvana’s struggles against gender inequality in Taliban society in Deborah
Ellis’ The Breadwinner;
3. classifying significant expression of words, phrases, clauses and sentences based on the objectives of this research;
4. categorizing the significant expression of words, phrases, clauses and sentences which has the similar meaning;
5. interpreting and analyzing the data; and 6. implementing the trustworthiness of the data by doing triangulation.
F. Data Trustworthiness
