Background of the Study

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1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study

Wellek and Warren 1971 : 3 says , “Literature is the mirror of human life that portrays human feeling, thought, imagination and perception which can be viewed based on personal judgment ”. In other word, literature constitutes the imaginative act from the human‟s imagination and interpreting life-experiences. Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. Eagleton 1983 : 9 also says “Literature in the sense of a set of works of assured and unalterable value, distinguished by certain shared inherent properties, does not exist ”.In other word, literature work has value of sense that can not be changed. Based on excerpts of critics above can be concluded that literature can give us new ways of looking the world and finding significance which the daily use of language in its more commonplace way has concealed. Novel is one of literary forms. Gray 1984 : 141 says, “Novels are long prose fictions, including every kind of plot, all style and manners of dealing with their material and showing a capability to cover every imaginable subject matter from all points of view”.In other word, a novel is a long prose fiction almost always concentrating on character and incident, and usually containing a plot. The intrinsic elements are truly seen from the novel. Novel has some intrinsic elements, such as theme, plot, character, setting, point of view and style. Universitas Sumatera Utara 2 Along with the development of internet technology, this causes to the rise of crime called Cybercrime. Cybercrime is criminal activity done using computers and the Internet which to take opportunities from the victims such as theft and use of an Internet account belonging to someone else, website hijacked, deception through social media accounts with a motive for kidnapping, rape and Murder and etc. The appearance of several cases of cybercrime that often happen and the existence of cybercrime has become a threat to internet users who are victims, not only in the material, but also their lives. This situation also present in the novel Wish List by John Locke. The Wish List is a website that is controlled by multiple agents where they were granted four wishes of an ordinary man named Buddy Pancake. When Buddy Pancake and his drinking friends stumbles across Website Wish List and they jokingly type their impossible wishes. Then, one by one of their wishes start coming true. But Buddy neglected to read the fine print explaining the price they must pay for the wishes they‟ve been granted. The result is they ask Buddy to perform criminal acts as a payment of four of his wishes. To analyze the story, the writer uses „intrinsic approach‟. Wellek and Warren 1972 : 139 said that retrieve data only from the text, such as read the text carefully, sort information of plot, character, theme, background, action and make summary and conclusion. The writer also uses the library method as the method of study. Library method based on finding sources and appropriate information from the books or internet. Universitas Sumatera Utara 3 The writer interested to analysis this novel as subject of this paper because the story is about Website Wish List which can granted four wishes of their visitors but then asked to perform criminal acts as a payment of four of visitors‟ wishes. As the focus of this paper, the writer will analysis the Wish List Website and how this website give big affect to Buddy‟s fate.

1.2 Problem of Study