INTRODUCTION 1 Background of the Study
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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.