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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
A. Object of The Study
In this thesis the writer uses a novel entitled
The Lucky One,
a romantic novel with theme of fate and destiny, which is written by number one New York Times
Bestselling author, Nicholas Sparks. The novel was first published in 2008 by Grand Central Publishing, New York.
In the year of 2012 the novel is adapted into a box-office movie using the same title as the title in the novel. It is Warner Bros., who produces the movie and
actually it is is not the first time of Sparks‟ novel that is adapted into box-office
movie. Since February 1999 until recently on February 2013 there are seven novels have been adapted into box-office movie and released in theatre exclude
the novel
The Lucky One
. The movie starring Zac Efron as Logan Thibault and Taylor Schilling as Elizabeth are remakable movie stars, and in the process of the
movie it was directed by an Academy Award-nominated writerdirector Scott Hicks.
The story took the setting during the time of the United States invasion to Iraq. In the story, Logan Logan was a U.S Marine who had the duty tour in Iraq.
His desire to serve in the Marine was influenced by his father who was also a Marine. First time in the duty tour, Logan found difficulty to adapt with the
situation in the camp especially with the issue of the enemy‟s biological weapon
which also strikes most Marines‟ psyche, he tried to spend his days by having the
routine drill and joined his mates on playing card games until the late night. In the card games he had lost much money that he had spent before he enrolled into the
Marine so he decided to stop and try another activity. In the early of the other day, he jogged nearby the camp and at the end of the session he found a photograph of
a smiling young woman with a phrase “Keep Safe-E” which was buried in the
dirt, thinking of someone might have lost the photograph, after back to the camp Logan attached the photograph on the announcement board so the one who had
lost the photograph could get it back. After days passed, no one claimed for the photograph so Logan take back the
photograph. Starting from this moment his life strikes into luck, his first luck was when he came back into card game after his friend asked him to re-join the game,
previously he had lost much money while in this time he won the money back even gained more money so that he played longer with the other players, the other
luck saved him from the combats during his duty tour. A friend who was also a Marine, Victor, told Logan that the photograph had brought him into luck because
he believed in superstitions that the photograph was a lucky charm, but Logan just did not to pay so much attention on his friend‟s superstition until five years after
the duty tour was over he still remembered on what his friend had told him. Coming back home in Colorado, Logan was haunted by
his friend‟s suggestion on looking for the woman in the photograph. At last, he followed his
friends suggestion and with the lack of information which was only found in the photograph about the woman in the photograph he took a trip by foot to Hampton,
North Carolina.
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