CHAPTER III THE ANALYSIS OF PLOT, CHARACTER AND THEME
In this chapter the writer will analyze the plot, character and the theme of the story to find out how the stories happen with all the problems
inside it. Then from the plot the writer tries to find out what the characters and theme of the story itself is. And also the writer will put the summary of
The Pale Horse, to give a little description about the story.
A. Summary of The Pale Horse
Mark Easterbrook, the hero of the story, the narrator and the young historian, is accused of murdering father by uncompromising detective
Lejeune with only a list of names given to him by Father Gorman before his death. Before Mark knew about this mystery, Mark saw fought between two
girls in a Chelsea, England coffee bar. At dinner with a friend, Poppy mentions about the pale horse that arranges murder, but is suddenly scared
and frightened at having mentioned it and will say no more. After the death of Father Gorman, the detective came to crime scene and found out the list
of name in his shoes. Detective Lejeune
showed the list to Dr. Jim Corrigan, because name was included in the list. The captain knew
that Dr.Jim Corrigan was in the list and the list includes the names of Mark’s godmother’s Lady Heskith-Dubois who has recently died of what
appear to be a natural causes and of Thomasina Tuckerton. He begins to fear that the list contains the names of those dead or shortly to die.
Detective Lejeune accepted a letter from Zachariah Osborne, one of the witnesses of Father Gorman murder. Zachariah wrote that the man who
walked behind Father Gorman at the night was Mr.Venables who lived at priors court, Much Deeping. After reading the letter Lejeune and Dr.Jim
decided to investigate Mr.Venables. After talking with Mrs.Dane Calthrop, he wanted to investigate the pale horse and the possible connection between
the list of name. Mark asked his friend Hermia to help him to investigate, but Hermia refused to help because of her busy. How ever he receives
support from Ginger and Dr.Jim refused to help Mark, he thought that all of that was balderdash, did not make sense at all.
Mark also makes an ally of Ginger Corrigan, a girl whom he has met in the neighborhood and who successfully draws Poppy out about the pale
horse organization. Ginger found the information about Mr.Bradley who had connection with pale horse. Ginger wanted Mark to visited Mr.Bradley
to get more information. Mr.Bradley, a lawyer who outlines to him the means by which the pale horse can kill someone for him without breaking
the law. To get more information about how the process of killing people, Mark and Ginger planned to be a client of Mr.Bradley. They were making a
reason who the one to be a target. Ginger pretend to be Mark’s wife, after telling everything to detective Lejeune, Mark visited Mr.Bradley. As he
arrived, Mark told everything and wanted to do the bet. At a ritual of some kind at the pale horse, Mark witnesses Thryza
apparently channel a malignant spirit through an electrical apparatus. Shortly afterward, Ginger gets sick and begins rapidly to decline. In
desperation, Mark turns to Poppy again who know mentions a friend Mrs.Brandon, who worked at Customers Reactions Classified but she
quitted because she thought there was a connection to pale horse. It became more interesting because the woman who gave Father Gorman the list also
worked at C.R.C. and of course Ginger once welcomed a girl at C.R.C. Mark thinks that the same thing happened to Lady Heskett-Dubois, Mary
Delafontaine and Thomasina’s has lost her hair during her illness. More over, Ginger has begun to shed her own hair. Mark told Lejeune that
Ginger’s hair comes out was not because of high fever but of thallium poisoned. At the end revealed that Mr.Osborne as the man behind the scene.
The Black Magic element just a mask for the part while the real murders
were committed by visiting the victim’s houses with those poisoned with thallium.
B. Intrinsic Element
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