Approach of the Study

24 isolated place. Most of people are farmers and shepherds. Viscos village is a place for every hunter who always comes when the hunting time has come. Most of teenagers who live in Viscos village have moved to big city because they feel that Viscos village cannot guarantee their future. People’s life in Viscos always runs in harmony and peace; they eat from their livestock crops and their rice field. Every year hunters come to Viscos to do their hobby, hunting wolves. Viscos is famous with its wild wolves which live in the forest. However, Viscos is still natural; there are still a lot of forests which are possible for the animals to live. Their income comes from the hunters who stay in the only hotel in Viscos and also by selling their harvest. Every night Viscos people always gather in the only hotel’s bar. They come to tell about their daily life. Viscos has nine months winter, so they only have three months summer to cultivate their field. The harmonious and peaceful Viscos’s development is closely related to its historical background. Long time ago, Viscos village was a place for the very dregs of humanity, a place where bandits, smugglers, prostitutes, and murderers gathered. The wickedest of them all was Ahab. For Ahab, killing somebody else was a usual thing. For over two centuries, Viscos had been inhabited by the very dregs of humanity …. at that time, Viscos was little more than a frontier post, populated by bandits fleeing from justice, by smugglers and prostitutes, by confidence tricksters in search of accomplices, even by murderers resting between murders. The wickedest of them all, an Arab called Ahab, controlled the whole village and the surrounding area. p. 24 Then one day, there was a saint who came to Viscos village, he was called St. Savin. St. Savin knew about Ahab reputation and he was the wickedest among 25 of Viscos people at that time. That was the reason why St. Savin decided to visit Ahab and planned to spend the night at Ahab’s house. Formerly, Ahab wanted to kill St. Savin. Yet, St. Savin’s love had made Ahab realized about his faults and promised that he would leave his dark life. Since then, Ahab changed Viscos people’s life to be harmony and peaceful. His conviction to change had made the people of Viscos also want to be good people. This tradition was really held by every single person in Viscos village. That moment has made Viscos to be a famous place which full of harmony, peace and comfort. The Village which is full of harmony and peace is challenged by the coming of the stranger with his motivation to tempt its people. The stranger’s curiosity in looking for the meaning of the truth to question that always wrestles his heart “whether human being is good or bad” has brought him to make a plan which can shake every heart who knows about it. This story begins from the stranger’s life experiences. He feels that life has been so unfair for him. He also feels that he has become a man who undergoes this life in the right way, and he is also loyal to God’s order but why life is still so cruel to him. That is why, he is going to prove his theory that human being is an evil. As Waringin 2007: 19 says that “Otak manusia secara mendasar hanya mencari kenikmatan dan menghindari kesengsaraan.” Human brain is based on the searching of pleasure and avoiding misery. It means that if we are closed with a misery, we tend to go away. While, when we are closed to an enjoyment, we tend to come near to that pleasure. This quotation shows how the stranger’s feeling to this life. In this situation, he tends to try to avoid his misery that is why