limit the discussion into the main characters only. I will discuss each characters clearly and completely.
1.3 Purpose of the Study
In this study, I have two main purposes. First, to understand the whole story and the main characters in this novel. Second, to inform that politics are
also interesting to be learned.
1.4 Significance of Writing
In general, I hope this paper can enrich the readers’ knowledge, especially the students of English Diploma Study Program.
1.5 Method of the Study
The source of this paper analysis is novel. In this paper I discussed The Ghost Writer. The focus of analysis is the main characters.
The method used in writing this report is library research and internet research. In this research, all the data and information related to the analyses are
taken from books and other sources.
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2 BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR
Robert Dennis Harris was born in Nottingham, England on 7 March 1957, is an English novelist.
Harris spent his childhood in a small rented house on a Nottingham council estate. His ambition to become a writer arose at an early age, from visits
to the local printing plant where his father worked. Harris went to Belvoir High School in Bottesford, and then King Edward VII School, Melton Mowbray, where
a hall is now named after him. There he wrote plays and edited the school magazine.
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Harris read English literature at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he was president of the Union and editor of the student newspaper Varsity. He was a
TV correspondent for the BBC and has also worked as a columnist for the London Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph, and as Political Editor for The Observer.
He was named Columnist of the Year in the 2003 British Press Awards. As well as several non-fiction books, including Selling Hitler: The Story of the
Hitler Diaries 1986, he is the author of six novels: Fatherland 1992, set in 1964 in Berlin; Enigma 1995, set in World War II; Archangel 1998, set in
present day Russia; Pompeii 2003, a dramatisation of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79; Imperium 2006, the first of a trilogy of novels about Cicero;
and The Ghost 2007, narrated by a professional ghost writer. Robert Harris lives in Berkshire. His novel Enigma, about the code breakers of Bletchley Park, was
made into a feature film directed by Michael Apted, from a script by Tom Stoppard. Archangel, the story of a historian on the trail of Stalins secret diaries,
was adapted for BBC Television in 2005, starring Daniel Craig. Pompeii has recently been adapted for film by the author, and will be directed by Roman
Polanski. Robert Harris is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His latest novel is Lustrum 2009, the second in the Cicero trilogy, shortlisted for the 2010
Walter Scott Prize.
Harris lives in a Berkshire vicarage near Newbury, with his wife Gill Hornby, herself a writer and sister of best-selling novelist Nick Hornby. They
have four children.
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3 SUMMARY OF THE NOVEL
Of all the advantages to be a ghost writer, one of which must have been an opportunity for you to meet interesting people, said Robert Harris, author of
The Ghost, at the beginning of his novel. His sentence is excerpts from the book Ghostwriting 2004 by Andrew Crofts.
I am your ghost, said the ghost at the first met with Adam Lang p. 75. As a ghost writer, someone is not unlike a ghost for the owner of the name that
will be specified as an author. He is there but invisible. He is exist but unknown. His pride may be just one: has been in contact with one interesting person in the
world. Although in this novel, meeting political celebrity was not a thing that appeals to the ghost. Instead, he is like Kate’s saying, his girlfriend, named as, ...
the only rat to jump into a sinking ship. P. 85. Adam Lang, a former British Prime Minister, must belong to the
interesting people. Not everyone can get a chance to meet him. But the man who becomes the narrator of The Ghost, the ghost whose name never be mentioned
until the end of the novel, with easy to acquire this rare opportunity. The ghost is a ghost writer and was recruited to help write Lang memoirs.
The narrator is the second choice. At first the writing of Lang memoirs written by Michael McAra, Langs political aide when he was prime minister.
McAra has conducted a series of research which he described in his memoir throughout sixteen chapters. Unfortunately, before completion, McAra was found
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dead on the beaches of Marthas Vineyard. So this work is transferred to the new ghost who experienced in writing celebrities memoirs.
Leaving London, the ghost went to Marthas Vineyard. He will continue the work of McAra together with Lang in Martin Rhinehart resort, the owners
who want to publish Lang memoirs. In fact the ghost have never read a political memoir as his belief that no one who reads this genre. He accepted the offer
because it lured 250 thousand dollar reward for the targeted job in a month. Marthas Vineyard, where Lang Adam hide from the pursuit of the public
because of alleged human rights crimes. At the house, its Lang personal assistant whom met by the ghost, very strict and disciplined that is Amelia Bly.
At that house the ghost met with Langs wife, Ruth, who is also former party activist. Because of Ruths political knowledge is good enough, then the
ghost also think that Ruth as the prime ministers political mentor. After reading the manuscript prepared by McAra, the ghost concluded if
this article would be the most failed projects in the history of publishing. No doubt, outworn itself as the worker would become scapegoats. McAra manuscript
hardly ever mentions Ruth, Langs wife who is known for his independence and intelligence. She also did not find matters of Operation Tempest which was
become the news of the various world mass media. There is indication that the five-year-old Lang past has supported
Operation Tempest, the mission of kidnapping four British citizens who become al-Qaeda terrorist suspects. They arrested by the elite British Special Air Service
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SAS in Peshawar, Pakistan and the behest of the CIA handed over to Lang. After they get torture, one of them was killed and three others were imprisoned at
Guantanamo. This operation is considered illegal under UK and international law. Lang case boiling increasingly when Richard Rycart-former British
foreign minister who once dismissed Lang from the Cabinet and now serves superb ambassador for the UN humanitarian problems-ask the International Court
in The Hague to investigate the involvement of Lang. Presumably, although thought to have a personal vendetta on Lang, Rycart-who claim to be sacked
because he was not pro-America had evidence of Langs involvement in Operation Tempest.
In line with the rise of the preaching of the role of Lang in the case of the so-called war crime, the publishers decided to publish the memoirs. For the
publisher this time is the moment to reap the benefits while for the ghost it is became critical moment because there is only two weeks left.
The ghost continues to explore the private lives of Adam Lang, especially during at Cambridge University. From here some puzzles started to opened,
including the death of the earlier author of biography of the prime minister, Mike McAra, who is found his death body floating in the sea.
McAra apparently did not want to left things just end even though hes dead. He left a form of memorabilia from the times of Lang lecture at Cambridge;
a piece of campus actors photograph who raises a question. Following in the
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McAra’s clue, without anyone realizing it, the ghost found that the persistent curiosity has hired himself as the next victim will be.
By tracing the clue left by Mike McAra, the ghost started looking for another figure which has very close relation to Adam Lang, namely Paul Emmett,
a professor at Harvard University. Mike McAra death due to drunk very dubious. Then the ghost was visiting Paul Emmett to extract some information. After
coming back from the house he was, he was being followed by unknown people and about to kill him.
The ghost survived, then met with Richard Rycart. By using the google search engine, the ghost is trying to figure out who Paul Emmett and his
relationship with Adam Lang. With a piece of information, he knows that Paul Elmett is a CIA agent, who recruited Adam Lang in 1973.
The ghost also confirm his meeting with Richard Rycart to Adam Lang through a conversation full of emotion on his private plane. Adam Lang unlucky
fate. When he had just got off the plane, he was immediately bombarded with machine guns by a father whose son was killed in the Iraq war.
But the story does not end here. At the launch of this biography, the ghost managed to answer the puzzle long over this: Apparently, Paul Emmett was a
member of the CIA, and he has recruited Ruth, Adam Lang’s wife. Those who were both trying to control Adam Lang, including the following U.S. foreign
policy to combat terrorism.
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Reportedly, Adam Lang character was inspired by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair who also had a ghost writer for his memoir. Maybe this is
what led to the idea to write a novel that tells the ghost writer. For Harris, the name of the person does not guarantee memoirs sales. He pushed the idea of
writing political memoir in which the writer have to give the heart in writing to obtain the sympathy of readers. Successful political memoirs will be able to
persuade the readers to identify their emotionally with the owner of the memoir. And able to invite the reader to recognize similarities in them with the characters.
Of course, The Ghost is not a theory book in writing memoirs. What mentioned above is only one part even if it is not removed will not give any
systemic impact on the quality of the novel. For a thriller novel, the conflict is the main selling. The more classy conflict is presented, the more viscous its power
suspension, and the novel becomes more compelling. This novel not only contains a single conflict. All the main characters are
connected with the old secrets stored by one character. When the secret was revealed, and can only be read ahead of the seal, it is becoming a heavy blow that
struck the readers mind. Its remarkable. Initially the ghost that becomes the narrator is present as spectators, but
gradually he developed into the main character which is threatened by the choices made without thinking carefully. Ghosts inappropriate to expect greatness
Ghostwriting, p. 314, but as a ghost really inappropriate for me to expect the salvation of his soul.
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The Ghost is a kind of novel that can not be ignored reader who liked the novel of politics and intelligence support. Harris was able to prove that despite not
primp in terms of plot, he was able to dress the worlds second dish is a mesmerizing thriller that will remain long after reading it.
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4 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
4.1 Plot
