Background of Study INTRODUCTION
unusual plot because of its flashback. In modern short story, the author always uses flashback plot such as is he living or is he dead? For common short story the
author usually use forward plot, it shows when people reads common short story this modern life and the story just talk about love and not about their social life, so
the reader will just follow the story. Is he living or is he dead? Will bring the reader in the past of the story and felt like they also lived at that time because
from the first until the last story it showed us flashback. It also had a little funny story because the author also had a unique idea in his story. The unique part of
this short story is about Carl’s idea, his idea was he wanted one of his friend or someone who will be chosen later must pretend to die so that the paint that he had
made before will cost expensive. It was all the merit of a death painter at that time even until right now. Based on the statements above, the writer is interested to
analyses the flashback plot of the story such as the introduction of the character, describing their background, the place and time of events and it will suggest the
basic line of conflict that known as the exposition and rising action and the other part called climax is to describe all the troubles in the story and to make clear all
the trouble and find the way out. The plot shows flashback and then back again to the present time the time when the story’s told first and known as the falling
action and resolution.