INTRODUCTION THE NEED FOR SACRIFICE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT IN JOHN GRISHAM’S THE RACKETEER (2012): The Need For Sacrifice In Law Enforcement In John Grisham’s The Racketeer (2012): A Sociological Approach.

1. INTRODUCTION

The Racketeer is a recommended novel to be read because it has great moral value. It tells about law enforcement in the real world. John Grisham writes this novel. He is a great writer in a thriller novel. He serves this story by using sociological approach as a lawyer, so we can apply the perception of law enforcement. The words chosen make the reader understand what the researcher exactly going to say. The Racketeer was published on October 23, 2012. This novel tells about law enforcement in this real world. It is tell about lawyer, FBI agents, judges and prosecutor. The Racketeer describes the life of a lawyer Malcolm Bannister that gets the sacrifice in law enforcement. He lost of career, job and family. Dionne as the Bannister wife divorces him because he is in prison for ten years, Dionnes married again with other man. In prison with other convict, Bannister knows who killed Judge Fawcett and he knows why. The judge’s body was found in his remote lakeside cabin. There are no forced entry and no struggle, just two dead bodies: Judge Fawcett and his young secretary. The FBI would love to know, and Malcolm Bannister would tell them. But everything has a price, especially information as explosive as the sequence of events that led to Judge Fawcett’s death. The novel ends with Bannister celebrating with the Rucker family in his new house in Antigua, with all the gold. Before the researcher writes this paper, several writers have analyzed about John Grisham novel. There is no same with previous research because it mostly different research. Those several research is the description between British-English and American-English Slangs in the John Grisham’s Novel The Racketeer. In this paper, the researcher explains this novel by using Sociological approach. This theory proposed by Swingewood and Laurenson. The researcher do choose this theory among several theories about law enforcement because this is most apropriate one to analyze The Racketeer. Swingewood and Laurenson has state three types of sociology of literature: 1 sociology of the writer, 2 sociology of the society and 3 sociology of the readers. Welek and Waren also has three classified sociology of literature, there are sociology of the researcher, sociology of the work and sociology of the audience. In this paper, the researcher discuss John Grisham novel The Racketeer by finding to the type of sociology of the writers and sociology of the society. The researcher focusing on the sociology of the researcher that tells about provenance, status, social ideology, profession and institution of literature.

2. RESEARCH METHOD