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their heads as they say it; I don’t mind. I’ve learned to
live with my disability, and learned to live without other
people, so it’s no skin off my nose.
is Frank’s job to be able to blend into the society. The
reason why the society is afraid of Frank is likely
because Frank feels that it is not important to get
along with the society and she never take a real action
about it.
E. Data Analysis
Based on the novel entitled The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks, the researcher tried to reveal the factors that cause Frank to suffer from identity crisis. The
researcher also analyzed the impacts of Frank’s identity crisis toward her personality. The findings then are based on the data that have been analyzed by the researcher.
The data were analyzed in order to accomplish the researcher’s objectives. The data analysis dealt with the process of data reducing, data display and conclusion
drawing. In this research, the step employed is the systemic step. First, all data in the source were included, and then those data were reduced, throwing away all the
insignificant and unrelated data. This means that the researcher included the relevant data only. Next, those relevant data were displayed in the data sheet. The researcher
categorized those data into several groups. Lastly, after being displayed, those data were verified and conclusions were drawn.
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F. Data Trustworthiness
There are several aspects in order to verify the trustworthiness of the research data. Those aspects are credibility, dependability, transferability, and conformability.
In order to gain the credibility of the data, the researcher performed a multiple checking and re-read the data to avoid errors and mistakes. As for dependability, the
researcher read the data frequently to understand the content of the story and reaching out into an independent and credible interpretation.
Transferability refers to the way a researcher transfers his findings to the readers of the study. In order to fulfill the aim of transferability, the researcher
organized the data in detail and in order so that the readers understand the findings of this study. Conformability refers to the to the experts’ judgment about the whole
analytical process of the study. It is about the accuracy between the data, the findings and also the interpretation of the data. In this research, conformability was conducted
by discussing the data with the researcher’s consultants to get the conformability of the data.
Lastly, to gain more trustworthiness for this research, the researcher used triangulation. Triangulation is a method to utilize information outside the data to
verify the data itself or to compare them. The aspects of triangulation are the sources, methods, researchers and theories. In order to conduct this triangulation, the
researcher consulted the data to his first consultant, Mr. Sugi Iswalono, M.A., and
