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RESEARCH METHOD
To collect data, the analysis is based on library research. This research involves a collection of some textbooks, Journals, articles, virtual resources and internet access. The main resources of this research are Myths and Activism reflected in Nawal El Saadawi’s Memoirs: A Daughter of Isis.
A. Type of the Research
In the research, the present researcher proposes the qualitative method. According by Denzin and Lincoln as their Handbook of Qualitative Research has move through time. Qualitative research is a positioned movement that finds the spectator in the world. It includes of quality of explanatory, material is applies that make the creation evident. These observes make over the world. They turn the world into a sequences of illustrations, including field notes, talks, dialogues, pictures, tape, and notes to the personality. At this means that qualitative: researchers study belongings in their ordinary sets, trying to make intelligence of, or understand, phenomena in terms of the implications people take to them (Creswell, 2007). So, that is a research which employs the method of collecting data, describing, classifying and analyzing the data and then drawing conclusions to conduct the research. The first assumption hypothesis of qualitative research is a worldwide, the using of a theoretical lens and the study of research problems the meaning individual’s groups that are considered to come from a social or human problem in investigating (Creswell, Qualitative inquiry and research design: choosing among five approaches (2nd ed), 2007).
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inductive and arranges patterns or themes. The final written report or presentation enrolls the voices of participants, and a complex description and interpretation (Creswell, 2007).
This study used descriptive qualitative and narrative research to investigate the procedure as well books and additional interconnected orientations to sustenance the focus matter. According to Bogdan and Taylor cited by Lexy J Moleong, Qualitative method is “a research procedure that obtains descriptive data in written and spoken from the people and their behavior which is being observed (Moleong, 2010). And, according to Creswell (2007:54) narrative is “A kind of qualitative in which the investigator illustrates the lives of characters, accumulates and tells stories about individuals live, and write narratives of characteristic experiences. B. Object of the Research
Identify the goals associated with each of the research questions. We discuss important considerations in the development of an object of the research. There are two objects of the Research are:
a. Material Object
The book with the entitled A Daughter of Isis first published in 1999 consists of 354 pages by Zed Books Ltd, 7 Cynthia Street, London N19JF, UK and room 400, 175 Fifth Avenue, London and New York, NY 10010, USA this edition was first published in 2009 in website www.zedbooks.co.uk.
b. Formal Object
The formal object of this study, research involves there is main issues Myth and Activism in Nawal El Saadawi’s Memoirs: A Daughter of Isis (1999).
C. Type of Data and Data Source
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dialogues and narrations. The data source reduction into two categories: primary data sources and secondary data sources
1. The Primary Data Sources
The primary data are taken from A Daughter of Isis (memoir): myth and activism that is written by Nawal El Saadawi.
2. The Secondary Data Sources
The secondary data are including the references and also materials related to the study by selection up whether from textbooks, internet, articles, papers, dissertations, author’s biography, journals or article and other significant data.
D. Technique of Collecting the Data
The technique of the data collection in this study is documenting analysis. The document analysis refers to printed materials, images, literary works, film or other types of record (Creswell, Qualitative Inquiry and Research design: Choosing Among, 2012). In accumulating the data, the researcher involves the following steps:
1. Hunting the books of A Daughter of Isis and investigating is literature works by Nawal El Saadaw
2. Understanding, Analysis, Evaluation the memoir
3. Saving and accumulating the data from the memoir of A Daughter of Isis
4. Finding, categorizing the issues of the memoirs 5. Defining of the elements of Myths and Activism
6. Analysis some interconnected books to find out the theory, data, and knowledge required.
7. Taking command of critical in both primary and secondary data informants.
E. Technique of Analyzing Data
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authors describe what they see. This detail is provided within the context of the setting of the person, place or event (Creswell, Qualitative Inquiry and Research design: Choosing Among, 2012, p. 184).
