The Strategy of Jack Reacher to Find The True Shooter

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THE STRATEGY OF JACK REACHER TO FIND THE TRUE SHOOTER

IN ONE SHOT NOVEL BY LEE CHILD

A PAPER

BY

ALFI NAVAIS MUTHYAH RITONGA

REG. NO. 122202035

DIPLOMA-III ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM

FACULTY OF CULTURE STUDY

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH SUMATERA

MEDAN

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AUTHOR’S DECLARATION

I, ALFI NAVAIS MUTHYAH RITONGA, declare that I am the sole author of this paper. Expect where the references are made in the text of this paper, this paper contains no material published elsewhere or extracted in whole or in part from a paper by which I have qualified for or awarded another degree.

No other person’s work has been used without due acknowledgement in the main text of this paper. This paper has not been submitted for the award for another degree in any tertiary education.

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COPYRIGHT DECLARATION

Name : ALFI NAVAIS MUTHYAH RITONGA

Title of Paper : The Strategy of Jack Reacher to Find The True Shooter Qualification : D-III / Ahli Madya

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I am willing that my paper should be available for reproduction at the discretion of the librarian of the Diploma III English Department Faculty of Culture Studies USU on the understanding that user are made aware of their obligation under law of the Republic of Indonesia.

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ABSTRACT

This paper is entitled The Strategy of Jack Reacher to Find The True Shooter. Jim Grant, better known by his pen name Lee Child was born in Coventry, England. He is one of the world’s leading thriller writers. His novels consistently achieve the number one slot on bestseller lists in the world, and had been sold to forty countries. All of his books has also considered to be made in a movie series. Especially renowned for One Shot, the book title is based on “One shot, one kill”, the military sniper’s creed. The book opens with a shooter killing five innocent people in a public Indiana square, and leaving behind an unbelievable amount of trace evidence. He is easily tracked down and identified as a retired Army sniper named James Barr. But when James Barr is apprehended, he refuses to talk, saying only, “Get Jack Reacher for me.” Reacher appears on the scene when he hears about the incident on the news. It seems the shooter had a similar killing spree while in the Army and Reacher had him nailed for that crime. However, the killer walked on technicality and Reacher swore he would track the shooter down. The method used is library research and from books and internet as references. In writing this paper, the writer uses method of descriptive research and intrinsic approach.

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ABSTRAK

Kertas karya ini berjudul The Strategy of Jack Reacher to Find The True Shooter. Jim Grant, yang lebih dikenal dengan nama pena Lee Child lahir di Converty, Inggris. Dia adalah salah satu penulis film thriller terkemuka di dunia. Novelnya secara konsisten mencapai jumlah satu slot pada daftar buku terlaris di dunia, dan sudah dijual di empat puluh negara. Semua judul-judulnya sudah dipertimbangkan untuk diangkat ke layar lebar. Terutama yang terkenal yaitu One Shot, judul buku ini didasarkan pada “One shot, one kill”, kunci keyakinan dari penembak jitu militer. Buku ini dimulai dengan seorang penembak yang menewaskan lima orang yang tidak bersalah di alun-alun Indiana, dan meninggalkan jumlah jejak yan luar biasa banyak. Ia pun dapat dengan mudah dilacak dan diidentifikasi sebagai pensiunan penembak jitu militer bernama James Barr. Tapi, ketika James Barr ditangkap, ia menolak untuk berbicara, ia hanya mengatakan, “Bawakan Jack Reacher padaku”. Reacher muncul ditempat kejadian ketika ia mendengar tentang kejadian penembakan tersebut diberita. Kejadian penembakan tersebut terlihat sama persis seperti saat ia di militer dan ia sangat mengutuk pelaku pembunuhan tersebut. Bagaimanapun, seorang penembak pasti mengacu pada sistem teknis dan Reacher bersumpah ia akan melacak dan melumpuhkan pelaku penembakan tersebut. Metode yang digunakan adalah metode studi pustaka dari buku-buku dan internet sebagai referensi. Dalam penulisan makalah ini, penulis menggunakan metode penelitian deskriptif dan pendekatan intrinsik.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim

First of all, I would like to thank and praise to the Almighty God, Allah SWT for blessing and giving me health, strength and ease to accomplish this paper as one of the requirements to get Diploma III certificate from English Department Faculty of Culture Science, University of Sumatera Utara.

Then, I would like to express a deep gratitude, love and appreciation to:

• My parents, Alfian Ritonga and Zunilta P Girsang thank you for your never ending love, motivation, advice, encouragement, mental and financial support, also prayer as well for me. I love you both.

• My beloved sisters and brothers, Alfi Yola H Ritonga, Alfi Naufal K Ritonga, Alfi Daffa Q Ritonga, and Alfi Qothrunnada Ritonga. Thank you for your support and for being my forever comfort zone in life. I love you.

• Dr. Matius C.A Sembiring, MA as the head of English Diploma Study Program

who has given me many new lessons of knowledge and life to learn about.

• My supervisor, Drs. Siamir Marulafau, M.hum. Thank you for the valuable time in giving the correction and constructive critics in completing this paper.

• My reader, Dr. Matius C.A Sembiring, MA Thank you for giving a time reading my paper.

• Dr. Syahron Lubis, M.A., as the Dean of Faculty of Culture Science, University of Sumatera Utara

• All lecturers in English Diploma Study Program for giving me a lot of lessons of educational study, advice, and life lessons as well.

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the support nor the wonderful memorable memories with random feelings in every brand new days. You always make my day, ladies.

• All of my friends in Diploma III English Study Program. Thank you for such an inspiring differences of culture, unique local accents, motivating background story that amaze me since day one. Good luck for the next stage of life, fellows.

• My shooting partners in ASHC (Anugerah Shooting and Hunting Community) PERBAKIN (Persatuan Menembak dan Berburu Indonesia) SUMUT : Fitri, Okky, Tomy, Feri, Putri, Yogi, Adriyanto (Capt TJ). Thank you for all your support and for being double worth function organization. As a second lovely place I call home where inside I find new family(in crime) and as a place to experience the professional level as an athlete of shooting. All of you guys are like my own kind of ammo and gun.

Finally, I do realize that nothing is perfect, including this paper.

Therefore, my pleasure to accept any constructive critics and suggestions towards my paper.

Medan, 2015

The writer,

Reg. No. 122202035

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TABLE OF CONTENT

AUTHOR’S DECLARATION ... i

COPYRIGHT DECLARATION ... ii

ABSTRACT ... iii

ABSTRAK ... iv

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ... v

TABLE OF CONTENT ... vi

1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of Study ... 1

1.2 Problem of Study ... 2

1.3 Scope of Study ... 3

1.4 Method of Study ... 3

1.5 Purpose of Study ... 3

1.6 Reason for choosing the topic ... 3

2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1 Novel ... 4

2.2 Character ... 5

2.3 Plot ... 6

2.4 Setting ... 7

2.5 Intrinsic Approach ... 8

2.6 Descriptive Approach ... 9

3. THE STRATEGY OF JACK REACHER 3.1 Trapping and Shooting Insident ... 10

3.2 Tracking down the true shooter ... 16

4. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 4.1 Conclusion ... 25

4.2 Suggestion ... 25

BIBLIOGRAPHY ... 26

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ABSTRACT

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ABSTRAK

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1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study

Literature is a kind of art, usually written offer pleasure and illumination. Literature is also composition that tells us stories, dramatize situations, express emotions, and analyze advocate ideas. Roberts (1993:68) stated that literature can help us to grow both personally and intellectually. Literature provides an adjective base for knowledge and understanding. Literature enables us to recognize human dreams and struggle in different places and times that would never know.

Literature is as old as human language and as new as tomorrow’s sunrise. And literature is everywhere not only in books, but in video, television, radio, CD, computer, newspaper, in all the media of communication where a story told or an image created.

Roberts and Jacobs (1993:1) say, “Literature refers to compositions that tell stories, dramatize situations, express emotions and analyze and advocate ideas.” Before the invention of writing, literary works were necessarily spoken or sung, and were retained only as literature still exists, with many poems and stories designed exclusively for spoken delivery. Even in our modern age of writing and printing, much literature is still heard aloud rather than read silently.

Jacobs (1993:1-3) states that literature provides the comparative basic from which we can see worthiness in the aims of all people, and it helps us to see the beauty of the world around us. Literature may be classified into four categories or genres. 1. Prose fiction, 2. Poetry, 3.Drama, 4.Nonfiction prose. Usually the first three are classed as imaginative literature. The genres of

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imaginative literature have much in common, but they also have distinguishing characteristics. Prose fiction or narrative fiction, includes myths, parables, romances, novels, and short stories.

The world novel has been derived from an Italian word novella, which means a new story or a new thing. A number of critics have defined the word novel in a different way. Dr. Tillyard defines novel as “a novel is not too unorganized, fictious narrative in prose of at least, say 20.000 words.” W.E Williams defines it as “a long narrative in prose detailing the actions of fictious people.”

In addition, the writer uses descriptive qualitative method for processing the data obtained. Then the results of the analysis made in the form of detailed sentence that makes the reader better understand what the strategies experienced by the main character so that the results obtained are the most intelligent scene was high level intelligence. The purpose of this paper is to reveal a very intelligent strategy of how complicated the shooting case event in the novel take place. Hopefully, this work paper can be useful for the reader and can become a reference for the study of a foreign language contained in the English language.

1.2Problem of Study

The problem of study are as follow:

1) What did Jack Reacher do to find the true shooter? 2) How Jack Reacher can become a suspect as the shooter?

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1.3Scope of the Study

There are many aspects can be discussed in this novel, nevertheless the writer is interested to focus in finding out the facts written in this novel which are about the wrong shooter that innocently become the suspect and the true shooter that did the guilty.

1.4 Purpose of the Study

The purpose of the study is to give a description about the strategy of Jack Reacher in finding out the real true shooter andto give a description of James Barr’s actions that make him alleged as the suspect.

1.5 Method of the Study

The writer uses the library research because all the required data found in a written text which is in the novel of One Shot which written by Lee Child.

1.6 Reason for Choosing the Topic

This novel tells the story of a detective within the shooting case. While me as the author of this paper is a college student whom interested with all about the shooting world. Because besides being a student, I am also a shooting athlete of North Sumatera which has been following some of shooting championship at the city level to the national level. I have also got a gold medal in air rifle and air pistol category. I have read this novel for a while that published in Indonesian, so now I want to explore the English language.

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2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1 Novel

Novel is a long prose narrative that describes fictional character and events in form of a sequential story. Novel is kind of the literature, according to Rees (1973:106) says that novel is a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length in which characters and actions representative of real life are portrayed in a plot of more or less complexity.” One of inspiration in writing novel is based on true story with human experience, usually through from relation of sequence events involving a group of person in a specific setting. On the other side that novel teaches the reader by the moral message in a theme of the novel.

Peck and Coyle (1984:102) say, the novel reflects a move away from an essentially of religious view of life towards a new interest in the complexities of everyday experience. Most novels are concerned with ordinary people and their problems in the societies in which to find themselves.

Based on the quotation that novel is one form of literary work in which a fictional story in writing of words and have intrinsic and extrinsic elements. The novel tells the story of human life generally in interacting with the environment and each other.

Watson (1979:102) says, “A novel is a way learning about how things were or are-cognitive instrument; and those who destruct stories as evidence should consider how often in conversation we use them to make a points or answer questions.”

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It means novel has many functions to inform or make points in some subjects of destruct stories.

2.2 Character

Taylor (1981:62) says, “character is a mere construction of words meant to express an idea or view of experience and must be considered in relation to other features of the composition, such as action and setting, before its full significance can be appreciated.

Shaw (1972:50) says, “Character is the aggregate if traits and gestures that from the natures of some person or animal.” Character also refers to moral qualities and ethical standards and principles. In literature, character has several other specific meaning notably that of a person represented in a story, novel, play, etc. In seventeenth and eighteenth century England, a character was a formal sketch of descriptive analysis of a particular virtue or vice as represented in a person, what is now more often called a character sketch.” Character has two types namely: flat or minor character and round or main character.

In a story emphasizing a major character, you may expect that each action or speech, no matter how small, is part of a total presentation of that complex combination of both the inner and outer self that constitute a human being.

Robert and Jacob (1993:131) say, “In fiction, a character may be defined as a verbal representation of a human being. Through action, speech, description, and commentary, authors portray character that are worth caring about, rooting for, and even loving, although there are also character you may laugh at, dislike, or even hate.

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Based on the quotations, that character is a form of characteristic or trait human or animal, character also refers to the quality of the moral and ethical standards and principle. It can show the reaction of Jack Reacher in solving the shooting case. And why is the suspect pointed to James Barr.

2.3 Plot

Gwynn (2002:7) says that plot may be defined as a story’s sequence of incidents, arranged in dramatic order. One is tempted to insert the word “Chronological” but doing so will exclude many stories that depart from this strict ordering of events. In opposite fashion, novelist sometimes uses of foreshadowing prevents a story’s outcome from seeing haphazard or contrived which is largely illusory.

Shaw (1972:211) says that plot is a plan or scheme to accomplish a purpose. In literature, plot refers to arrangement of events to achieve an intended effect. A plot is a series of carefully devised and interrelated actions that progresses through a struggle of opposing forces (conflict) to a climax and denouement. A plot is different from story line (the order or events as they occur).

Kennedy (1991:7) says, “Plot is the artistic arrangement of those events. It means the most important element among other elements of fiction because structure events are rising out of conflict. Plot is the logical interaction of the various thematic elements of a tech which lead to a change of the original situation as presented at the outset of the narrative. One of the most important elements in shaping a work of fiction is plot.

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Based on the quotations from the three critics, that Plot is a story’s sequence of incidents, arranged in dramatic order which is different from the story line. It is arranged from the most important element among other elements of events to achieve an intended effect.

2.4 Setting

Shaw (1972:247) says that setting is the environment or surrounding of anything. The term is usually applied in literature to the local or period in which the action of a play, novel, motion picture, etc. takes place in theatrical jargon. Setting may also refer to scenery or properties.

Gwynn (2002:17) says that setting is simply the time and the place of a story, and in most cases the details of descriptions are given to the reader directly by the narrator. Description to place important to give the impression to the readers and make them knows where the story takes place. From the study of the setting would be known the extent of conformity and correlation between behavior and temperament with the community leaders, social situation, and opinion of society.

Taylor (1981:69) says, “Setting is the major factor in the formulation of subject matter and a direct influence on the expression of theme. As in the case of the other factors, however, setting needs not to be realistic, nor, in fact, even physical. Historical time (past, present or future) is very effective for certain narratives and an accurate geographical location advisable, but it is also possible to set a fiction in some vague undetermined time, omitting historical references altogether in order to achieve a sense of timelessness and universality.

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Based on the three quotations, setting means the time, place, and social reality within which a story takes place. We have no understand where we are, in which period of time in which society and at which level in that society if we are to intreprate correctly the other element in the story.

There are three elements of the novel such as Character, Plot, Setting that can show the data about how James Barr could be the suspect as the shooter? And what did Jack Reacher do to find the true shooter?

2.5 Intrinsic Approach

Welleck and Warren (1977:157) say that the research literature on the interpretation and analysis of literary works itself. In the 19th century popular literature research is research on an explanation of the origin and poetical literature in the 19th century moved to the tastes of readers. In this case, the art should be and can be enjoyed. Old methods describe again in the terms of modern methods such as rhetoric, classic, poetic, and dimension. Methods of the explication texts have been widely introduced in France based on a survey of literary forms. The Germans developed a formal analysis and look for parallels between art and art history and history of art pioneered by Walzel. IA Richard’s followers in the UK began to focus on poetry text. A group of critics in America began trying to restore a major concern in the study of literature. And a number of studies also emphasize the difference between drama and life and tend to combine drama with empirical reality to which it refers. The conclusion of Welleck and Warren is analysis based on the text itself.

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2.6 Descriptive Research

Best (1982) says that Descriptive research purpose to describe what is happening now, and in which there is an attempt descriptions, printing, analysis, and interpretation of the conditions that occur at this time. In the descriptive study included a comparison of various type and it may well come to attempt to find the relationship between the set of variables.

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3. THE STRATEGY OF JACK REACHER

3.1 Trapping and Shooting Incident

In a small Indiana city a lone gunman drove north in a minivan. He was wearing a light-colored raincoat and the kind of shapeless light-colored beanie hat that old guys wear on the golf course when the sun is out or the rain is falling. The man was also wearing sunglasses, even though the van had dark windows and also wearing gloves even though the weather was not cold. Traffic slowed to a crawl where First Street started up a hill. Then it stopped completely where two lanes become one because the black top was torn up for construction.

There was construction all over town that made driving become a nightmare for a year. Then the man in the minivan slowed before he hit the turn in front of the plaza and made a left and entered the parking garage. He drove straight up the ramp. There was no barrier, because each space had its own parking meter. Therefore there was no cashier, no witness, no ticket, no paper trail and absolutely the man in the minivan knew all that. He wound round the ramps to the second level and headed for the far back corner of the structure. He slipped out of the seat and moved an orange traffic cone from the space he wanted.

He drove the van into the space and shut it down. He sat still for a moment quietly. The space he had protected with the traffic cone had been the last one available there. Then the man opened the driver’s door and slid out. He took a quarter from his pocket and put it in the parking meter. He stood still next to the van wearing a pair of old desert boots on his feet. It is Khaki suede, single eyelets,

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soldiers. He opened the sliding rear door and leaned inside and unfolded a blanket and revealed the rifle. It was a Springfield M1A Super Match autoloader, American walnut stock, heavy premium barrel, ten shot box magazines, chambered for the 308. It was the exact commercial equivalent of the M14 self-loading sniper rifle that the American military had used during his long-ago years in the service. It was loaded with Lake City M852s.

He listened to the silence and lifted the rifle off the rear bench, carried it away with him to the raw new construction. There were haphazard piles of paper cement sacks, some full, some empty. There was grey cement dust everywhere and the smell of damp lime.

The man with the rifle walked on in the darkness until he came close to the new northeast corner. Then he stopped and put his back tight against a raw concrete pillar and he still stood there. He was directly looking north and east into the public plaza. He reached the base of the wall and lay flat on the ground, pressed up tight against the raw concrete. Then he squirmed up into a sitting position and knelt. He breathed in, breathed out. One shot, one kill. That was the sniper’s credo. Felt himself relax and felt come home.

“He breathed in, breathed out. One shot, one kill. That was the sniper’s credo. To succeed required control and stillness and calm.” (Child, 2005:17)

There were a lot of people who came out the doors and walked right to left directly in front of him, just like ducks in a shooting gallery. The man with the rifle breathed in, and breathed out, and waited. Then he stopped waiting, he pulled

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the trigger and kept on pulling. His first shot hit a man in the head and killed him instantly. He worked fast, left to right. The second shot hit the next man in the head. Same result as the first, exactly. The third shot hit a woman in the head. His fourth head shot killed a man in a suit, and the fifth missed completely. His sixth shot caught a guy on the bridge of his nose and blew his head apart. The man with the rifle stopped firing.

“His first shot hit a man in the head and killed him instantly. He worked fast, left to right. The second shot hit the next man in the head. Same result as the first, exactly. The third shot hit a woman in the head. His fourth head shot killed a man in a suit, and the fifth missed completely. His sixth shot caught a guy on the bridge of his nose and blew his head apart.” (Child, 2005:20)

He swept shell cases into a pile and scooped them but the sixth rolled away and fell into an unfinished expansion joint. He surely left it because there was no time. He jammed the five cases he had in his raincoat pocket and back to his minivan. He backed out and headed for the exit ramp. Then he smiled suddenly.

“Good work, he thought. Covert infiltration, six shots fired, five targets down, successful extra filtration, as cool as the other side of the pillow.” (Child, 2005:21)

The dozen simultaneous 911 cell phone calls lit up the emergency switchboard. Everything was dispatched, all of them with lights popping and sirens blaring. Initially there was complete mayhem. The 911 calls had been panicked and incoherent. But crimes were plainly involved, and they were clearly serious, so the Serious Crime Squad’s lead detective was given temporary

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command. He was a high-quality twenty-year PD veteran who had come all the way up from patrolman. His name was Emerson.

He was blasting through slow traffic with no way of knowing what had happened. Robbery, drugs, gang fights, terrorisms, he had no hard information. None at all but he was calm, comparatively.

“He was a high-quality twenty-year PD veteran who had come all the way up from patrolman. His name was Emerson.” (Child,

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Emerson and his team were trying together to track the chronology of the shooting incident to find the shooter. They found a shell case and a bullet. They tie the weapon to the crime and the scratches tie the weapon to the garage location. They also found the same thumb and index finger as on the quarter in the parking meter and on the traffic cone. So they can connect the crime to the gun, and the gun to the ammo, and the ammo to the guy who used it.

“The shell case has got fingerprints on it from when he loaded the magazine. So we can tie the crime to the gun, and the gun to the ammo, and the ammo to the guy who used it. See? It all connects. The guy, the gun, the crime. It’s a total slam dunk.” (Child, 2005:39)

Exactly six hours after the first shot was fired, the situation was nailed down tight. Based on the result of the fingerprint search, it was match with an ex-military shooter. They found an address, history, a driver’s license photo plus supplementary information from all over the system.

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“His name is James Barr. He’s forty-one years old. He lives twenty minutes from here. He served in the U.S Army. Honorable discharge forty years ago. Infantry specialist, which means he’s a sniper. DMV says he drives a six-year-old Dodge Caravan, beige.” (Child, 2005:40)

All of the evidences were pointed to James Barr an ex infantry specialist of the U.S Army. While he never know about what was going on in that building, about the cruel shooting incident that killed five citizens around that building.

The warrants were ready within an hour, but the arrest took three hours for them to set up. First, unmarked surveillance confirmed Barr was home. Then, they did standard operating procedure to plan carefully for the takedown of an armed man inside a building. Emerson was detailed to make the actual arrest, wearing full body armour and a borrowed helmet. People figured that nobody owned just one automatic weapon. If a guy had one, he had more. Maybe full-auto machine guns.Maybe grenades or bombs.

The police broke down James Barr’s place at three in the morning and found him asleep, alone in bed. Emerson called the paramedics to check for him to make sure that he wasn’t faking and to make sure he wasn’t about to die on them. Then they pronounced him reasonably fit and healthy, but fast asleep. Emerson found a driver’s license in his pocket. That shows the similarities of identity of him. In the house, they found the scuffed blue jeans in the bedroom closet. The crepe-soled shoes were placed neatly on the floor below them. They were dusty; the raincoat was in the hall closet. The beige Dodge Caravan was in

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including a half-empty box of Lake City M852 168-grain boat tail hollow point 308s. The jar nearest the front of the bench held just five of them. Lake City brass. The jar’s lid was still off, like the five latest cases and been dumped in there recently and in a hurry.

He shook Barr by the shoulder and got half opened eyes in response. He recited the Miranda warning, then they wrapped him in a blanket and two cops dragged him out of the house and into a car.

“He recited the Miranda warning. The right to remain silent, the right to a lawyer. Barr tried to focus, but didn’t succeed. Then he went back to sleep.” (Child, 2005:44)

Barr was moved from the police station lock up to the county jail. His blanket and pajamas were taken away and he was issued with paper underwater, an orange jumpsuit, and a pair of rubber shower sandals. The county jail wasn’t a pleasant place to be. He survived as a fish for two hours, and then he was escorted to an interview room. He was told there was a lawyer waiting there for him. The lawyer introduced himself to James Barr. Then, he recorded the conversation on tape and started the interview. But after all the questions, Barr stayed quiet. Until for several long minutes, Barr said that they got the wrong guy and asked to get him Jack Reacher. Then he just got up from the table and walked to the cubicle’s door and pounded on it until the jailer opened it up and led him back to his overcrowded cell.

“You got the wrong guy. Get Jack Reacher forme” Barr said. (Child, 2005:53)

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Based on all that, the trapping by the true shooter was kind of mission complete. He could trap Barr with every detail things of the evidence fit to James Barr. The fingerprint, the ammunition, weapon, clothes, vehicle, it was a very well-planned trap mission.

The conclusion of the above statement is about the trapping and the shooting incident that running well as the shooter already planned. He was very well-trained shooter that made it not impossible to do. James Barr came speechless to get arrested for something he did not do. He realized for being criminalized by person. But to deny everything the police had been alleged him for is something useless. He did not even trust his own lawyer has the capability to help him out from the county jail. Only one name that he believesbecome the only one that could. He is Jack Reacher.

3.2 Tracking Down the True Shooter

Due to the dialogue with James Barr that wanted Jack Reacher to come help him out of this case. Because he knew him as an investigator, someone who broke a tough case that he thought couldn’t be broken. He thought Jack Reacher was an investigative genius. There is more to this case than Emerson saw, the police leader who lead the operation. Barr wanted someone else to understand that. But his first lawyer was lazy. He wasn’t very interested. He also could not just lay out the facts because nobody would have believed him. That is why Barr got so frustrated.

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the way. He had a front row seat. He thought I was an investigative genius.” (Child, 2005:150)

James Barr was a sniper. He was not the best nor the worst but he trained for more than five years. And training has a purpose. Looking at the shooting base location, a sniper would have fired from up the highway. Because he has got his targets walking directly towards him in a straight line: single file, into a bottle-neck. Setting up with one aiming point and never has to vary it. His targets just walk into it, one after another. Shooting from the side is much harder. The targets are passing right to left in front of him, relatively quickly. But he fired from there. It had to be a real good one, because he trapped himself inside a building, down at street level, in a congested area, with a much harder shot, in a place whose very nature made it the best crime scene a twenty-year veteran like Emerson has ever seen.

“This is fourteen years later. He is not as good as he was. It had to be a real good one, didn’t it? Because he trapped himself inside a building, down at street level, in a congested area, with a much harder shot, in a place whose very nature made it the best crime scene a twenty year veteran like Emerson has ever seen.” (Child, 2005:157)

Jack Reacher found everything was wrong in this case. Like, why would he wear a raincoat? It was warm and it was not raining and he was in a car even never outside. He wore it so he could scrape unique fibers off it onto the pillar. Also, a pair of shoes he wore to make him traceable every last piece of crap around. He shoot out of the dark to make people would see his muzzle flash and

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pinpoint the location so they could go up there afterwards and find all the other clues. The one missing shot that fired into a pool was not a really missing shot. He insisted to do it before so it could be found later, undamaged and could tie the barrel to the crime.

“Because he didn’t miss. He fired into the pool deliberately. He wanted to put a bullet in the water, down the long diagonal axis, from a low angle, just like a ballistics tank, just so it could be found later, undamaged. Just so it could tie his barrel to the crime.” (Child, 2005:159)

Jack Reacher realized that James Barr tried to give a message from the tape recorder that recorded the conversation with him and the first lawyer. He meant they should be looking for the other guy that made him do it. Reacher believed there was a puppet master.

Unfortunately James Barr involved in a serious fight within the county jail with a mexican. The mexican had a knife in his hand and twelve friends behind him. The knife was a plastic tooth brush handle wrapped with tape and sharpened to a point, like a siletto. The friends were all stocky little guys, all with the same tattoos. They all had cropped hair with intricate patterns shaved across their skull. Barr was trying to talk to them peacefully but the mexican ignored him, and eight minutes later Barr was in a coma. He was found some time after that, on the floor, beaten pulpy, with multiple stab wounds and a cracked skull and severe subdural bleeding. He was medevacked to the city hospital and sewn up and operated on to relieve pressure from a swollen brain. Then he was dumped in a secure intensive

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care unit, comatose. The doctors were not sure when he would wake up again. Maybe in a day, a week, a month, or maybe never.

“Wait, Barr said. He wastrying to talk to them peacefully but the mexican ignored him, and eight minutes later Barr was in a coma”. (Child, 2005:58)

But after some days got intensive treatment from the hospital, James Barr got awake and reasonably lucid. The doctors were listening him as stable, but that does not mean he’s a well man. So, they were restricting his visitors to a maximum of two at any one time, and keep things as brief as possible.

The doctor said she started out assuming, it is more likely to be real than fake. A brain injury bad enough for a two-day coma almost always produces amnesia. Those data were settled long ago. Then she just watch the patient. True amnesiacs are very unsettled by their condition. They’re disoriented and frightened. It can be seen how they really trying hard to remember. They want to remember. Fakers show up different. They will avoid the days in question. They look away from them, mentally. Sometimes even physically and there is often some distinctive body language.

With the doctor’s explanation, Jack Reacher start to giving many specific question due to the day when the shooting incident happened. James Barr was very cooperative and he was not seem to be bulshitting. He was trying really hard to remember that day.

After interviewing him, Jack Reacher got a new evidence that directed to the truth. The police have been gilding the lily over at the police station. They

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have got the fibres, ballistics, dog DNA, a receipt for the ammunition all the way from some place. They traced the traffic cone to the city. They have got all kinds of stuff. But they have not got James Barr on tape driving in to place the cone in the garage before hand. They must have looked at the tapes a dozen times by now. If they had found him, they would have printed the stills and pinned them up for the world to see. But they were not there, which means they did not find them.Which means James Barr did not drive in and leave the cone beforehand. And it means someone else did it. It must be the puppet master or another puppets.

“They have got all kinds of stuff. But they have not got James Barr on tape driving in to place the cone in the garage before hand. Which means James Barr did not drive in and leave the cone beforehand. And it means someone else did it. It must be the puppet master or another puppets.” (Child, 2005:214)

Reacher was sure that James Barr always practiced his shooting skill somewhere after got out from military. However, weapon, bullet, and firing range had already been a part of his life.

So, Reacher tried to get another clue from a firing range. Three miles out Reacher saw a wire fence on the left shoulder of the road that started directly after he crossed the Blackford on a bridge. Reacher followed it and where it met the Blackford again he found a gate and a gravel clearing and a complex of low huts.

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angle and ran three more miles north and east. The gate was chained. It was hung with a hand-painted sign that read: Open 8 a.m. until dark.” (Child, 2005:338)

By eight twenty he started to hear rifles firing. Then he heard a string of lighter pops, from a handgun. He found the Humvee guy behind a waist-high counter in the main hut. Up close he was older than the had looked from a distance. More than fifty, less than sixty, sparse grey hair, lined skin, but ramrod straight. He had a weathered neck wider than his head and the sort of eyes that pegged him as an ex-marine noncom even without the tattoos on his firearms and the souvenirs on the wall behind him. He is the owner of the firing range named Gunny Cash.

Reacher asked about the James Barr to him, but he did not want to answer Reacher’s question unless one condition. Reacher should hit the X of the paper target. Cash pulled the Humvee off the main track and drove three hundred yards down the length of an empty range. He got out and clipped the paper target to a frame and got back in and K-turned the truck and headed back. He parked it neatly and shut it down.

Reacher sat still for a moment. He was more nervous than he should have been. He breathed in and held it and felt the thrill of caffeine in his veins. Just a tiny microscopic tremble. Four fast cups of strong coffee were not an ideal preparation for accurate long-distance shooting.

But it was only three hundred years. Three hundred yards, with a good rifle, no heat, no cold, still air. More or less the same thing as pressing the muzzle

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into the centre of the target and pulling the trigger. He could do it with his eyes closed. There was no fundamental problem with marksmanship. The problem was with the stakes. He wanted the puppet master more than he had wanted the Marine’s cup all those years before. A lot more. He slid out of the Humvee and took the rifle off the back seat. Carried it across rough earth to the coconut mat. Placed it gently with its bipod feet a yard back from the edge. Bent down and loaded it. Stepped back behind it and lined himself up and crouched, knelt, lay full length. He snuggled the stock into his soulder. Eased his neck left and right and looked around. It felt like he was alone in the middle of nowhere. He ducked his head. Closed his left eye and moved his right eye to the scope. Draped his left hand over the barrel and pressed down and back. Now, he had a tripod mount. The bipod, and his shoulder. Solid. He spread his legs and turned his feet out so they were flat on the mat. Drew his left leg up a little and dug the sole of his shoe into the mat’s fibres so the dead weight of the limb anchored his position. He relaxed and let himself sprawl. He knew he must look like a guy who had been shot, instead of a guy preparing to shoot.

He gazed through the scope. Saw the hypervivid image of great optics. He acquired the target. It looked close enough to touch. He laid the reticle where the two strokes of the X met. He opened his eyes again and saw that the reticle was still. He stared at the target. Feeling and wanting. He pulled the trigger. The gun kicked and roared and the muzzle blast blew a cloud of dust out of the coconut mat and obscured his view. He lifted his head and coughed once and ducked back to the scope. The X was gone. There was a neat hole drilled through the centre of

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bottom of each stroke. Cash dropped down in his place and used the scope to check the result.

“He stared at the target. Feeling it. Wanting it. He pulled the trigger. The gun kicked and roared and the muzzle blast blew a cloud of dust out of the coconut mat and obscured his view. Bull’s eye. The X was gone.” (Child, 2005:348)

Jack Reacher qualified the requirement he offered. Then, Gunny Cash told the information about James Barr that Reacher had been asking for. Apparently, Gunny Cash kept all the records for everyone who ever shot in his firing range. Reacher discovered that James Barr’s shots was terrible. Even way worse than he shoul be from fourteen years ago. The paper target of Barr were the product of a very poor shooter. It showed how bad Barr is to shoot in the very difficult situation as what happened in the case. It should not be him.

Gunny Cash told him that Barr always came there with a very close friend named Charlie. Reacher looked at Charlie’s records. He was a tremendous shot, training hard, but trying to look like he was missing all the time.

Reacher was looking over his data. Apparently, his real name is Chenko and he hangs with a bunch of Russians. He’s probably a Red Army veteran, one of the snipers. His boss called himself the Zec, and old time Soviet slang. A zec was a labour camp inmate. In the Gulag in Siberia.

“His real name is Chenko and he hangs with a buch of Russians. He’s probably a Red Army veteran. Probably one of their snipers. And they are real good. They always have been.” (Child, 2005:383)

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Apparently, Charlie had been Barr’s closest friend two years ago. He knew Barr’s house, and he knew where everything was. Even James Barr’s dog knew him.

Reacher concluded that Chenko and his boss had arranged something to get Barr out of the way. Because on his interview with James Barr, he remembered going out somewhere, previously. Then being optimistic, like something good was about to happen. Reacher thought they set him up with someone. He thought they engineered a chance meeting that led somewhere such a date on Friday.

“I think they arranged something to get him out of the way. He remembers going out somewhere, previously. Then being optimistic, like something good was about to happen. I think they set him up with someone. I think they engineered a chance meeting that led somewhere. I think he had a date on Friday.” (Child, 2005:381)

Reacher collected all about the information of Chenko and the Zec including their resident. Reacher cooperated with Cash and police to track down the conspiracy between Chenko and the Zec. After dealing with all the plan, they went to place of the Zec. They caught them there and found the evidences about their conspiracy tracks that prove James Barr was no guilty in this case.

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4. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

4.1 Conclusions

After doing an analysis toward the novel, it is provable that the strategy of Jack Reacher which was an ex-investigator military required a high intelligence of thinking. The strategy can be seen from the long process of revealing the evidence as the series clues to find the true shooter.James Barr who mentioned the name of Jack Reacher proved that he kept his promise since fourteen years ago to not ever do the same mistake again. Because of the capability and the intelligence of Jack Reacher in tracking down the evidence, James Barr came out from the alleged suspect of the shooting case andChenko, thetrue shooter which worked for the puppet master the Zecrevealed to be the prime suspect who wil be responsible for the cruel crime they did.

4.2 Suggestions

The writer hopes this paper couldgive some advantages and a motivation for the readers from the novel One Shot. I hope the reader could understand the story from this novel because this novel is worthy enough to read. It learns us to be open-minded on looking over a case or something. It forces our intelligence of mindset to see all the possibilities and hidden evidences behind the seen-evidences that we need to be wise in making into a decision without relying on one aspect only.

I hope the reader would be inspired and motivated from the way Jack Reacher’s used his logic and objective mind also sometimes counting on his instinct too.

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APPENDICES BIOGRAPHY OF LEE CHILD

Jim Grant (born 29 October 1954), better known by his

Child, is a British

former American States.

Jim Grant was born in and his younger brother moved him and his three brothers t was four years old, so that the boys could get a better education. Grant attended Cherry Orchard Primary School in Handsworth Wood until the age of 11. He attende

In 1974, at age 20, Grant studie had no intention of entering the legal profession and, during his student days,

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worked backstage in a theatre. After graduating, he worked i

Grant joine

Grant

was involved in the transmission of more than 40,000 hours of programming for Granada, writing thousands of commercials and news stories.He worked at Granada from 1977–1995 and ended his career there with two years as a trade uni

After being made redundant from his job due to corporate restructuring, Grant decided to start writing novels, stating they are "the purest form of

entertainment." In 1997, his first novel

moved to the United States in the summer of 1998.

His pen name "Lee" comes from a family joke about mispronunciation of the name of Renault' his work on bookstore shelves betw a

Grant has said that he chose the name Reacher for the central character in his novels because he himself is tall and, in a supermarket Cumbria, when he was living i if this writing thing doesn't pan out, you could always be a reacher in a

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are written in first person, while others are written in the third person. Grant has characterised the books as revenge stories – "Somebody does a very bad thing, and Reacher takes revenge" – driven by his anger at the downsizing at Granada. Although English, he deliberately chose to write American-style thrillers.

In 2007, Grant collaborated with 14 other writers to create the 17-part

serial thrille

broadcast weekl 2007.

On 30 June 2008, it was announced that Grant would be taking up a Visiting Professorship at the 2009, Grant funded 52 Jack Reacher scholarships for students at the university.Grant was elected president of the

Grant's prose has been described as "hardboiled" and "commercial" in style. A 2012 interview suggested that many aspects of the Jack Reacher novels were deliberately aimed at maintaining the books' profitability, rather than for literary reasons. For instance, making Jack Reacher have one parent who was French was suggested as being partly because the presence of only American members of Reacher's family would limit the series' appeal in France. The same interview stated that Grant "didn't apologise about the commercial nature" of his fiction.

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SUMMARY OF THE NOVEL

In a small a rush hour crowd in a public plaza, committing a massacre of five apparently random victims with six shots. The shooter leaves a perfect trail behind for the police to quickly track him down. Evidence from the scene, of a shell case and a the wrong guy," and "Get Jack Reacher for me." Reacher, a former Army Indiana. Reacher has no job, no home, no car, and a shrinking savings account from his past military pay. Although Reacher has a does have is sharp moral clarity in a modern climate of moral ambiguity.

Instead of clearing Barr, Reacher wants to assist the prosecution in convicting him. There are good reasons why Reacher is the last person Barr would want to see. When Reacher was an investigating Military Policeman years past, Barr had gone on a killing spree similar to the Indiana shootout, murdering four men during the technicality let Barr walk free. Reacher swore he would track the sniper down if he ever tried it again. Reacher believes Barr is guilty but Barr's sister Rosemary is convinced of her brother's innocence and entreats lawyer Helen Rodin to defend her brother. Helen's father is the district attorney who will prosecute the case.

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Reacher to form his own conclusions with the available evidence. The local news reporter, Ann Yanni, is also looking for more information and Reacher is more than willing to include her in his investigation, in exchange for the use of her car and a guaranteed public expose on the Barr case. Reacher knows that 35 yards, the parking garage shooting distance to the victims, is point-blank range for a trained military sniper like Barr. Reacher also knows the shooter missed one shot on purpose, giving Reacher one shot at the truth.

Reacher drives t practiced and learns some interesting facts from Gunny Samuel Cash, the former the presumably airtight case against Barr. Cash is unwilling to reveal information or his records to Reacher but grudgingly agrees to talk if Reacher is able to hit a paper target dead center at 300 yards with one shot. After he succeeds, Reacher is shown 32 sheets of target paper from three years' worth of Barr's practice shootings at his range, every single sheet with dead-on maximum scores.

After the visit to the shooting range, Reacher adds Cash's information to the case evidence. Helen and Rosemary sift through the clues in a riveting analysis and finally get Reacher to conclude that Barr is innocent, which means someone set up Barr as the sniper. Someone is also trying to get Reacher off the case, which formerly seemed a slam-dunk but is now falling apart. Reacher is teamed with Helen, the young defense lawyer working against her D.A. father with a prosecution team that has an explosive secret of its own.

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Reacher gets closer to the unseen enemy pulling the strings, leading him to the real perpetrators, a Russian gang masquerading as legitimate businessmen. The gang's eighty-year-old capo spent much of his life in one of the infamous Soviet Gulags and is known only as the Zec. Reacher outwits the mob guards in the Russian gang's fortress, efficiently and brutally dispatching five hoods before confronting the boss and forcing him to come clean on the conspiracy from beginning to end.

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APPENDICES BIOGRAPHY OF LEE CHILD

Jim Grant (born 29 October 1954), better known by his

Child, is a British

former American States.

In 1974, at age 20, Grant studie had no intention of entering the legal profession and, during his student days,

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worked backstage in a theatre. After graduating, he worked i

Grant joine Grant was involved in the transmission of more than 40,000 hours of programming for Granada, writing thousands of commercials and news stories.He worked at Granada from 1977–1995 and ended his career there with two years as a trade uni

After being made redundant from his job due to corporate restructuring, Grant decided to start writing novels, stating they are "the purest form of entertainment." In 1997, his first novel moved to the United States in the summer of 1998.

His pen name "Lee" comes from a family joke about mispronunciation of the name of Renault' his work on bookstore shelves betw a

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In 2007, Grant collaborated with 14 other writers to create the 17-part serial thrille broadcast weekl 2007.

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SUMMARY OF THE NOVEL

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The Strategy of Jack Reacher to Find The True Shooter