Background of the Study

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1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study

Literature according to Edgar V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs in book Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing 1995:2 refers to compositions that tell stories, dramatize situations, express emotions, and analyze and advocate ideas. Literature may be classified into four categories or genres: 1 prose fiction, 2 poetry, 3 drama, and 4 nonfiction prose. From the various types of imaginative literature, my choise falls on prose fiction or knowledge of novel which is a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length and complexity, portraying characters and presenting an organized sequence of events and scenes. Novel is human literature creations. Novel do not, however, present a documentary picture of life. Kennedy 1991:203 says that novel is a book length story in prose, whose author try to create senses while we read, we experience actual life and manner time when it was written. Novel have contenst such as plot, character, setting, theme, and point of view. The novel is broadest sense, a novel is any extended fictional prose narrative focusing on a few primary characters but often involving scores of secondary characters. The fact that it is in prose helps distinguish it from other lengthy works like epics. We might arbitrarily set the length at 50,000 words or more as a dividing point with the novella and the short story. According to Edgar V.Roberts and Henry E.Jacobs 1987:49 novel was borrowed from French and Italian to Universitas Sumatera Utara 2 describe these works and to distinguish them from medieval and classical romances as something that was new. In their books, they also said that there are four fiction aspects, they are character, plot, structure, and theme. The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith is a detective novel. According to Shaw Henry 1976:78 detective story is a narrative short story or novel in which a mystery is unraveled by a detective through the assembly and interpretation of clues. The tragic murder often occurred but not all is revealed, because there is no detective who investigate that murder cases. There are six elements of detective novel, such as solution of mystery, solving mystery, incompetent or ineffectual police, a susfect whoappears guity at first but is later proved innocent, detective’s friend, and often the narrator whose slowness in enterpreting clues emphasize by contrast the detective’s brilliance. For the example, the tragic murder that occurred on Ade Sara, a student at one of school in Jakarta. The murder occurred on the basis of love quadrangle. Ade Sara was killed by ex-boyfriend feel jealous and do not accept if Ade Sara have got a new beloved. However her ex-boyfriend not do that murder alone. He’s helped by him girlfriend. The murder which related background story of love often occurs in Indonesia. However in Jakarta, the types of killings are rarely expressed at length in the absence of detective. While murder cases which consist to supermodel, Lula Landry in the novel The Cuckoo’s Calling by Roberth Galbraith can be investigated because there is a detective who uncover as detail as detail the result of finding to details of the murder homicide figures in detail. Therefore this novel successfully expressed as a detective novel. Universitas Sumatera Utara 3 The writer chose “ detective story “ in the novel The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith because the detective story are terrible and excited when read it, also there is a detective decipher the events and find the culprit in detail. The writer use intrinsic approach and descriptive research that is collecting data from books in the library and also search the information from internet, such as data are colleceted, sorted, and summarized. The writer also uses intrinsic approach by Wellek and Warren 1994:24 which is the approach taken the data from text itself.

1.2 Problem of The Study