CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
3.1 Object of the Study
The object of this study is a short story entitled Two Kinds, written by Amy Tan. In common, it is a story that concerns with the complex relationship between a
Chinese American mother, Suyan and her daughter who was born in America, Jing Mei.
3.2 Type of Research
Seen from the data used, that is a non-numerical data collection, the type of this research is descriptive qualitative research. Wikipedia explains qualitative
research as the following. Qualitative research is a method of inquiry appropriated in many different
academic disciplines, traditionally in the social sciences
, but also in market
research and further contexts. Qualitative researchers aim to gather an in-
depth understanding of human behavior
and the reasons
that govern such behavior. The qualitative method investigates the why and how of
decision making
, not just what, where, when. Hence, smaller but focused samples
are more often needed, rather than large samples
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From the explanation above, in this final project the writer tried to gather an in-depth understanding of how the characters of a Chinese mothers
represented by Suyan, especially seen from the way she treated her child named Jing Mei and then analyzed why it could be so by relating it to the Chinese
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history and American immigrant one. The data were provided in the forms of phrases, sentences, and written dialogues from Two Kinds short story that has
either implicit or explicit meanings.
3.3 Data and Data Source
Seen from the sources taken, in this final project, the writer used both primary and secondary data. The primary data were in term of words, phrases, sentences, and
written dialoques from Two Kinds. Meanwhile, the secondary one were the theories underlying the analysis taken from secondary data source.
The data source that the writer used were primary and secondary. The primary data source was the teks of Two Kinds short story and the secondary one
was taken from books, journals, and articles from internet related to the topic of this final project.
3.4 Procedure of Collecting the Data
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