1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study Literature is
said as medium
of expressing ideas.
Roberts and Henry (1993:1) said that
literature refers to
composition that tell
stories, dramatize situation,
express emotion, an analyze and advocate ideas. It means that literature is the art of writing that is full of
expression and ideas because it is a product of imagination that comes from the author’s mind.
In general, literary work itself can be divided into three kinds which
are known as “genre”,
they are: poetry,
drama, and prose.
Poetry expresses a conversation
or interchange that is grounded in the most deeply felt experiences of human beings. Drama is literature designed to
be performed by actors. Prose is the ordinary form
of written language. Edgar
V. Roberts and
Henry E. Jacobs (1993:2) said classify prose
into fiction prose and
non-fiction prose. Fiction is originally
meant anything made
up or shaped,
the prose stories based
on the author’s creation and imagination. It includes
myths, parables, novels, romances, a nd
short stories. On the other hand, non-fiction is literary works which describe or
interpret facts, present
judgments, and opinions.
It consists of
news reports, essays, magazines,
newspapers, historical biographical
works and many
other forms of communication.
One of the
most important aspects
of the major novel
is the interaction
of contrary. Contradiction
among characters makes
both figures more
real, but the characters also
act on one
another and develop
as a result
of these interactions, which is often most of what a main stream
novel is about. Character in a novel is not as
puzzling as character
in real life,
a novel is
short: it is
a work of
art, so it is selective character in novel rather as we do
in real life; from people’s actions, from what they say about themselves, from what
other say about them.
Character is a person who is
responsible for the thoughts and action within a story, poem, or other literature. Characters
are extremely important because they are the medium through
which a reader
interacts with a
piece of literature.
Every character has
his or her
own personality, used
by a creative author
to assist in forming
the plot of a story or creating a mood. The different attitudes, mannerisms, and even appearances of characters can greatly
influence the other major elements in a literary
work, such as
theme, setting, and
tone. With this
understanding of the character, a
reader can become
more aware of
other aspect of
literature, such as symbolism, giving
the reader a more complete
understanding of the
work. The character is one of the most important tools
available to the author. Authors take an indirect approach by indicating how their
characters look and act, what they think
and say, how they live and how other
characters regard them.
The meaning of brutal is :
brutal, savage Related Words 1. Brutish : cruel and savege 2. Brutishness :
about cruel and savege 3. Brute : the cruel people 4. Aggro : savege and
aggressive 5. Assassinate : kill quickly 6. Bruiser : the savege people 7. Beat
up : the punch people 8. Backlash : revenge and negative This paper will
discusse the character's
personality in a Reacher novel "One Shot" by
Child. In this novel there are a lot of scenes which are very brutal, one
of which is a stealing scene of car tried
break the hands
of the victim, strangled to death just to rob the victim’s
money. The title of this paper is THE BRUTALITY
PICTURED in JACK REACHER “ONE SHOT” Problem of the Study What kinds of
brutality pictured in the novel ? 1.2 Scope of the Study There are
many interesting aspects
that can be
discussed in this
novel, nevertheless the
writer is interested
to focus on
the brutality pictured in Jack Reacher: One Shot. Moreover, this paper is
restricted to discuss the elements of brutality
pictured in the novel starting from chapter 1 to chapter 1.4 Objective of the Study To find out the
brutality pictured in the novel and to find out the reasons of the brutality for the readers 1.5 Reason for
Choosing the Topics The writer chose to
analyze the novel of Lee Child Jack Reacher: One Shot
because this novel tells a compelling story about the value of life to fear.
In this
case, the writer
is keen on portraying the
brutality of the crime or whatever is used in this novel 1.6
Method of the Study In writing this
paper, the writer
uses library research
as the method
of study. The first step, the
writer reads the novel to understand the story. Then, the writer
reads literature books and browses data
the internet to get information
to support the writer’s idea that is
related to the topic of this paper. The final steps is to sort out and analyze the data that have
been collected
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