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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD

A. Research Instruments and Design

The researcher aims to identify the characters that are being deconstructed and convey the way the author deconstructs the characters in Terry Pratchett’s The Wee Free Men. The researcher uses library research, descriptive qualitative research approach, and content analysis technique to examine the issue. The researcher applies library research method to collect the related data that goes parallel with the topic of the research. Since the data is not a numerical one, the researcher uses descriptive qualitative method to explain the result of the analysis in form of words, phrases and sentences. Stone in Krippendorf 2004:11 says that content analysis is a research that focuses on the characteristic, description, and message in the work as a unified object. The researcher uses deconstruction and children’s literature theories in this research. The sources of the theories come from literature text books. However, the researcher also reads other sources like electronic journal and articles to gain in depth understanding about deconstruction, images, and stereotypes in children’s literature. The data of the research are words, phrases, and sentences. All the findings were classified based on the relevance, and then they were noted. The results then became the data for the research. The data either taken from the text book or electronic sources are described in chapter 2 and are used to cross- check the theories of deconstruction, children’s literature, and conventional 39 images in Terry Pratchett’s novel. The data source of the research is the novel The Wee Free Men written by Terry Pratchett. In qualitative research, Creswell 2007:38 stated that the researchers collect data themselves by examining the documents, observing the behavior, and interviewing the participants. Meaning that the other instrument of the research is the researcher herself, as she read the book, noted the data, categorized the data, and examined the data by herself. There is also another instrument to complete the main instrument, which are the data sheets. The most effective way to collect the data is by reading the book closely and then making notes. The researcher read closely more than once to gain the valid information related to the research questions and to anticipate the missing data.

B. The Data Collection and Categorization