THE STRATEGY OF JACK REACHER TO FIND THE TRUE SHOOTER
IN ONE SHOT NOVEL BY LEE CHILD
A PAPER
BY
ALFI NAVAIS MUTHYAH RITONGA
REG. NO. 122202035
DIPLOMA-III ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM
FACULTY OF CULTURE STUDY
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH SUMATERA
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ABSTRACT
ABSTRAK
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Bismillahirrahmanirrahim
First of all, I would like to thank and praise to the Almighty God, Allah SWT for
blessing and giving me health, strength and ease to accomplish this paper as one of the
requirements to get Diploma III certificate from English Department Faculty of Culture
Science, University of Sumatera Utara.
Then, I would like to express a deep gratitude, love and appreciation to:
• My parents, Alfian Ritonga and Zunilta P Girsang thank you for your never ending love, motivation, advice, encouragement, mental and financial support, also
prayer as well for me. I love you both.
• My beloved sisters and brothers, Alfi Yola H Ritonga, Alfi Naufal K Ritonga, Alfi
Daffa Q Ritonga, and Alfi Qothrunnada Ritonga. Thank you for your support and
for being my forever comfort zone in life. I love you.
• Dr. Matius C.A Sembiring, MA as the head of English Diploma Study Program
who has given me many new lessons of knowledge and life to learn about.
• My supervisor, Drs. Siamir Marulafau, M.hum. Thank you for the valuable time
in giving the correction and constructive critics in completing this paper.
• My reader, Dr. Matius C.A Sembiring, MA Thank you for giving a time reading
my paper.
• Dr. Syahron Lubis, M.A., as the Dean of Faculty of Culture Science, University of Sumatera Utara
the support nor the wonderful memorable memories with random feelings in every
brand new days. You always make my day, ladies.
• All of my friends in Diploma III English Study Program. Thank you for such an
inspiring differences of culture, unique local accents, motivating background story
that amaze me since day one. Good luck for the next stage of life, fellows.
• My shooting partners in ASHC (Anugerah Shooting and Hunting Community)
PERBAKIN (Persatuan Menembak dan Berburu Indonesia) SUMUT : Fitri, Okky,
Tomy, Feri, Putri, Yogi, Adriyanto (Capt TJ). Thank you for all your support and
for being double worth function organization. As a second lovely place I call home
where inside I find new family(in crime) and as a place to experience the
professional level as an athlete of shooting. All of you guys are like my own kind of
ammo and gun.
Finally, I do realize that nothing is perfect, including this paper.
Therefore, my pleasure to accept any constructive critics and suggestions towards
my paper.
Medan, 2015
The writer,
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TABLE OF CONTENT
3. THE STRATEGY OF JACK REACHER 3.1 Trapping and Shooting Insident ... 10
3.2 Tracking down the true shooter ... 16
4. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 4.1 Conclusion ... 25
4.2 Suggestion ... 25
BIBLIOGRAPHY ... 26
ABSTRACT
ABSTRAK
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
Literature is a kind of art, usually written offer pleasure and illumination.
Literature is also composition that tells us stories, dramatize situations, express
emotions, and analyze advocate ideas. Roberts (1993:68) stated that literature can
help us to grow both personally and intellectually. Literature provides an adjective
base for knowledge and understanding. Literature enables us to recognize human
dreams and struggle in different places and times that would never know.
Literature is as old as human language and as new as tomorrow’s sunrise.
And literature is everywhere not only in books, but in video, television, radio, CD,
computer, newspaper, in all the media of communication where a story told or an
image created.
Roberts and Jacobs (1993:1) say, “Literature refers to compositions that
tell stories, dramatize situations, express emotions and analyze and advocate
ideas.” Before the invention of writing, literary works were necessarily spoken or
sung, and were retained only as literature still exists, with many poems and stories
designed exclusively for spoken delivery. Even in our modern age of writing and
printing, much literature is still heard aloud rather than read silently.
Jacobs (1993:1-3) states that literature provides the comparative basic
from which we can see worthiness in the aims of all people, and it helps us to see
the beauty of the world around us. Literature may be classified into four
categories or genres. 1. Prose fiction, 2. Poetry, 3.Drama, 4.Nonfiction prose.
imaginative literature have much in common, but they also have distinguishing
characteristics. Prose fiction or narrative fiction, includes myths, parables,
romances, novels, and short stories.
The world novel has been derived from an Italian word novella, which
means a new story or a new thing. A number of critics have defined the word
novel in a different way. Dr. Tillyard defines novel as “a novel is not too
unorganized, fictious narrative in prose of at least, say 20.000 words.” W.E
Williams defines it as “a long narrative in prose detailing the actions of fictious
people.”
In addition, the writer uses descriptive qualitative method for processing
the data obtained. Then the results of the analysis made in the form of detailed
sentence that makes the reader better understand what the strategies experienced
by the main character so that the results obtained are the most intelligent scene
was high level intelligence. The purpose of this paper is to reveal a very intelligent
strategy of how complicated the shooting case event in the novel take place.
Hopefully, this work paper can be useful for the reader and can become a
reference for the study of a foreign language contained in the English language.
1.2Problem of Study
The problem of study are as follow:
1) What did Jack Reacher do to find the true shooter?
1.3Scope of the Study
There are many aspects can be discussed in this novel, nevertheless the
writer is interested to focus in finding out the facts written in this novel which are
about the wrong shooter that innocently become the suspect and the true shooter
that did the guilty.
1.4 Purpose of the Study
The purpose of the study is to give a description about the strategy of Jack
Reacher in finding out the real true shooter andto give a description of James
Barr’s actions that make him alleged as the suspect.
1.5 Method of the Study
The writer uses the library research because all the required data found in a
written text which is in the novel of One Shot which written by Lee Child.
1.6 Reason for Choosing the Topic
This novel tells the story of a detective within the shooting case. While me
as the author of this paper is a college student whom interested with all about the
shooting world. Because besides being a student, I am also a shooting athlete of
North Sumatera which has been following some of shooting championship at the
city level to the national level. I have also got a gold medal in air rifle and air
pistol category. I have read this novel for a while that published in Indonesian, so
2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 Novel
Novel is a long prose narrative that describes fictional character and events
in form of a sequential story. Novel is kind of the literature, according to Rees
(1973:106) says that novel is a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length in
which characters and actions representative of real life are portrayed in a plot of
more or less complexity.” One of inspiration in writing novel is based on true
story with human experience, usually through from relation of sequence events
involving a group of person in a specific setting. On the other side that novel
teaches the reader by the moral message in a theme of the novel.
Peck and Coyle (1984:102) say, the novel reflects a move away from an
essentially of religious view of life towards a new interest in the complexities of
everyday experience. Most novels are concerned with ordinary people and their
problems in the societies in which to find themselves.
Based on the quotation that novel is one form of literary work in which a
fictional story in writing of words and have intrinsic and extrinsic elements. The
novel tells the story of human life generally in interacting with the environment
and each other.
Watson (1979:102) says, “A novel is a way learning about how things
were or are-cognitive instrument; and those who destruct stories as evidence
should consider how often in conversation we use them to make a points or
It means novel has many functions to inform or make points in some subjects of
destruct stories.
2.2 Character
Taylor (1981:62) says, “character is a mere construction of words meant to
express an idea or view of experience and must be considered in relation to other
features of the composition, such as action and setting, before its full significance
can be appreciated.
Shaw (1972:50) says, “Character is the aggregate if traits and gestures that
from the natures of some person or animal.” Character also refers to moral
qualities and ethical standards and principles. In literature, character has several
other specific meaning notably that of a person represented in a story, novel, play,
etc. In seventeenth and eighteenth century England, a character was a formal
sketch of descriptive analysis of a particular virtue or vice as represented in a
person, what is now more often called a character sketch.” Character has two
types namely: flat or minor character and round or main character.
In a story emphasizing a major character, you may expect that each action
or speech, no matter how small, is part of a total presentation of that complex
combination of both the inner and outer self that constitute a human being.
Robert and Jacob (1993:131) say, “In fiction, a character may be defined
as a verbal representation of a human being. Through action, speech, description,
and commentary, authors portray character that are worth caring about, rooting
for, and even loving, although there are also character you may laugh at, dislike,
Based on the quotations, that character is a form of characteristic or trait
human or animal, character also refers to the quality of the moral and ethical
standards and principle. It can show the reaction of Jack Reacher in solving the
shooting case. And why is the suspect pointed to James Barr.
2.3 Plot
Gwynn (2002:7) says that plot may be defined as a story’s sequence of
incidents, arranged in dramatic order. One is tempted to insert the word
“Chronological” but doing so will exclude many stories that depart from this strict
ordering of events. In opposite fashion, novelist sometimes uses of foreshadowing
prevents a story’s outcome from seeing haphazard or contrived which is largely
illusory.
Shaw (1972:211) says that plot is a plan or scheme to accomplish a
purpose. In literature, plot refers to arrangement of events to achieve an intended
effect. A plot is a series of carefully devised and interrelated actions that
progresses through a struggle of opposing forces (conflict) to a climax and
denouement. A plot is different from story line (the order or events as they occur).
Kennedy (1991:7) says, “Plot is the artistic arrangement of those events. It
means the most important element among other elements of fiction because
structure events are rising out of conflict. Plot is the logical interaction of the
various thematic elements of a tech which lead to a change of the original
situation as presented at the outset of the narrative. One of the most important
Based on the quotations from the three critics, that Plot is a story’s
sequence of incidents, arranged in dramatic order which is different from the story
line. It is arranged from the most important element among other elements of
events to achieve an intended effect.
2.4 Setting
Shaw (1972:247) says that setting is the environment or surrounding of
anything. The term is usually applied in literature to the local or period in which
the action of a play, novel, motion picture, etc. takes place in theatrical jargon.
Setting may also refer to scenery or properties.
Gwynn (2002:17) says that setting is simply the time and the place of a
story, and in most cases the details of descriptions are given to the reader directly
by the narrator. Description to place important to give the impression to the
readers and make them knows where the story takes place. From the study of the
setting would be known the extent of conformity and correlation between
behavior and temperament with the community leaders, social situation, and
opinion of society.
Taylor (1981:69) says, “Setting is the major factor in the formulation of
subject matter and a direct influence on the expression of theme. As in the case of
the other factors, however, setting needs not to be realistic, nor, in fact, even
physical. Historical time (past, present or future) is very effective for certain
narratives and an accurate geographical location advisable, but it is also possible
to set a fiction in some vague undetermined time, omitting historical references
Based on the three quotations, setting means the time, place, and social
reality within which a story takes place. We have no understand where we are, in
which period of time in which society and at which level in that society if we are
to intreprate correctly the other element in the story.
There are three elements of the novel such as Character, Plot, Setting that
can show the data about how James Barr could be the suspect as the shooter? And
what did Jack Reacher do to find the true shooter?
2.5 Intrinsic Approach
Welleck and Warren (1977:157) say that the research literature on the
interpretation and analysis of literary works itself. In the 19th century popular
literature research is research on an explanation of the origin and poetical
literature in the 19th century moved to the tastes of readers. In this case, the art
should be and can be enjoyed. Old methods describe again in the terms of modern
methods such as rhetoric, classic, poetic, and dimension. Methods of the
explication texts have been widely introduced in France based on a survey of
literary forms. The Germans developed a formal analysis and look for parallels
between art and art history and history of art pioneered by Walzel. IA Richard’s
followers in the UK began to focus on poetry text. A group of critics in America
began trying to restore a major concern in the study of literature. And a number of
studies also emphasize the difference between drama and life and tend to combine
drama with empirical reality to which it refers. The conclusion of Welleck and
2.6 Descriptive Research
Best (1982) says that Descriptive research purpose to describe what is
happening now, and in which there is an attempt descriptions, printing, analysis,
and interpretation of the conditions that occur at this time. In the descriptive study
included a comparison of various type and it may well come to attempt to find the
3. THE STRATEGY OF JACK REACHER
3.1 Trapping and Shooting Incident
In a small Indiana city a lone gunman drove north in a minivan. He was
wearing a light-colored raincoat and the kind of shapeless light-colored beanie hat
that old guys wear on the golf course when the sun is out or the rain is falling. The
man was also wearing sunglasses, even though the van had dark windows and also
wearing gloves even though the weather was not cold. Traffic slowed to a crawl
where First Street started up a hill. Then it stopped completely where two lanes
become one because the black top was torn up for construction.
There was construction all over town that made driving become a
nightmare for a year. Then the man in the minivan slowed before he hit the turn
in front of the plaza and made a left and entered the parking garage. He drove
straight up the ramp. There was no barrier, because each space had its own
parking meter. Therefore there was no cashier, no witness, no ticket, no paper trail
and absolutely the man in the minivan knew all that. He wound round the ramps
to the second level and headed for the far back corner of the structure. He slipped
out of the seat and moved an orange traffic cone from the space he wanted.
He drove the van into the space and shut it down. He sat still for a moment
quietly. The space he had protected with the traffic cone had been the last one
available there. Then the man opened the driver’s door and slid out. He took a
quarter from his pocket and put it in the parking meter. He stood still next to the
soldiers. He opened the sliding rear door and leaned inside and unfolded a blanket
and revealed the rifle. It was a Springfield M1A Super Match autoloader,
American walnut stock, heavy premium barrel, ten shot box magazines,
chambered for the 308. It was the exact commercial equivalent of the M14
self-loading sniper rifle that the American military had used during his long-ago years
in the service. It was loaded with Lake City M852s.
He listened to the silence and lifted the rifle off the rear bench, carried it
away with him to the raw new construction. There were haphazard piles of paper
cement sacks, some full, some empty. There was grey cement dust everywhere
and the smell of damp lime.
The man with the rifle walked on in the darkness until he came close to the
new northeast corner. Then he stopped and put his back tight against a raw
concrete pillar and he still stood there. He was directly looking north and east into
the public plaza. He reached the base of the wall and lay flat on the ground,
pressed up tight against the raw concrete. Then he squirmed up into a sitting
position and knelt. He breathed in, breathed out. One shot, one kill. That was the
sniper’s credo. Felt himself relax and felt come home.
“He breathed in, breathed out. One shot, one kill. That was the
sniper’s credo. To succeed required control and stillness and calm.”
(Child, 2005:17)
There were a lot of people who came out the doors and walked right to left
directly in front of him, just like ducks in a shooting gallery. The man with the
the trigger and kept on pulling. His first shot hit a man in the head and killed him
instantly. He worked fast, left to right. The second shot hit the next man in the
head. Same result as the first, exactly. The third shot hit a woman in the head. His
fourth head shot killed a man in a suit, and the fifth missed completely. His sixth
shot caught a guy on the bridge of his nose and blew his head apart. The man with
the rifle stopped firing.
“His first shot hit a man in the head and killed him instantly. He worked fast, left to right. The second shot hit the next man in the head. Same result as the first, exactly. The third shot hit a woman in the head. His fourth head shot killed a man in a suit, and the fifth missed completely. His sixth shot caught a guy on the bridge of his nose and blew his head apart.” (Child, 2005:20)
He swept shell cases into a pile and scooped them but the sixth rolled away
and fell into an unfinished expansion joint. He surely left it because there was no
time. He jammed the five cases he had in his raincoat pocket and back to his
minivan. He backed out and headed for the exit ramp. Then he smiled suddenly.
“Good work, he thought. Covert infiltration, six shots fired, five
targets down, successful extra filtration, as cool as the other side of
the pillow.” (Child, 2005:21)
The dozen simultaneous 911 cell phone calls lit up the emergency
switchboard. Everything was dispatched, all of them with lights popping and
sirens blaring. Initially there was complete mayhem. The 911 calls had been
panicked and incoherent. But crimes were plainly involved, and they were clearly
command. He was a high-quality twenty-year PD veteran who had come all the
way up from patrolman. His name was Emerson.
He was blasting through slow traffic with no way of knowing what had
happened. Robbery, drugs, gang fights, terrorisms, he had no hard information.
None at all but he was calm, comparatively.
“He was a high-quality twenty-year PD veteran who had come all
the way up from patrolman. His name was Emerson.” (Child,
2005:23)
Emerson and his team were trying together to track the chronology of the
shooting incident to find the shooter. They found a shell case and a bullet. They
tie the weapon to the crime and the scratches tie the weapon to the garage
location. They also found the same thumb and index finger as on the quarter in the
parking meter and on the traffic cone. So they can connect the crime to the gun,
and the gun to the ammo, and the ammo to the guy who used it.
“The shell case has got fingerprints on it from when he loaded the
magazine. So we can tie the crime to the gun, and the gun to the
ammo, and the ammo to the guy who used it. See? It all connects.
The guy, the gun, the crime. It’s a total slam dunk.” (Child, 2005:39)
Exactly six hours after the first shot was fired, the situation was nailed
down tight. Based on the result of the fingerprint search, it was match with an
ex-military shooter. They found an address, history, a driver’s license photo plus
“His name is James Barr. He’s forty-one years old. He lives twenty
minutes from here. He served in the U.S Army. Honorable discharge forty
years ago. Infantry specialist, which means he’s a sniper. DMV says he
drives a six-year-old Dodge Caravan, beige.” (Child, 2005:40)
All of the evidences were pointed to James Barr an ex infantry specialist
of the U.S Army. While he never know about what was going on in that building,
about the cruel shooting incident that killed five citizens around that building.
The warrants were ready within an hour, but the arrest took three hours for
them to set up. First, unmarked surveillance confirmed Barr was home. Then, they
did standard operating procedure to plan carefully for the takedown of an armed
man inside a building. Emerson was detailed to make the actual arrest, wearing
full body armour and a borrowed helmet. People figured that nobody owned just
one automatic weapon. If a guy had one, he had more. Maybe full-auto machine
guns.Maybe grenades or bombs.
The police broke down James Barr’s place at three in the morning and
found him asleep, alone in bed. Emerson called the paramedics to check for him
to make sure that he wasn’t faking and to make sure he wasn’t about to die on
them. Then they pronounced him reasonably fit and healthy, but fast asleep.
Emerson found a driver’s license in his pocket. That shows the similarities of
identity of him. In the house, they found the scuffed blue jeans in the bedroom
closet. The crepe-soled shoes were placed neatly on the floor below them. They
including a half-empty box of Lake City M852 168-grain boat tail hollow point
308s. The jar nearest the front of the bench held just five of them. Lake City
brass. The jar’s lid was still off, like the five latest cases and been dumped in there
recently and in a hurry.
He shook Barr by the shoulder and got half opened eyes in response. He
recited the Miranda warning, then they wrapped him in a blanket and two cops
dragged him out of the house and into a car.
“He recited the Miranda warning. The right to remain silent, the
right to a lawyer. Barr tried to focus, but didn’t succeed. Then he went back
to sleep.” (Child, 2005:44)
Barr was moved from the police station lock up to the county jail. His
blanket and pajamas were taken away and he was issued with paper underwater,
an orange jumpsuit, and a pair of rubber shower sandals. The county jail wasn’t a
pleasant place to be. He survived as a fish for two hours, and then he was escorted
to an interview room. He was told there was a lawyer waiting there for him. The
lawyer introduced himself to James Barr. Then, he recorded the conversation on
tape and started the interview. But after all the questions, Barr stayed quiet. Until
for several long minutes, Barr said that they got the wrong guy and asked to get
him Jack Reacher. Then he just got up from the table and walked to the cubicle’s
door and pounded on it until the jailer opened it up and led him back to his
overcrowded cell.
“You got the wrong guy. Get Jack Reacher forme” Barr said.
Based on all that, the trapping by the true shooter was kind of mission
complete. He could trap Barr with every detail things of the evidence fit to James
Barr. The fingerprint, the ammunition, weapon, clothes, vehicle, it was a very
well-planned trap mission.
The conclusion of the above statement is about the trapping and the
shooting incident that running well as the shooter already planned. He was very
well-trained shooter that made it not impossible to do. James Barr came
speechless to get arrested for something he did not do. He realized for being
criminalized by person. But to deny everything the police had been alleged him
for is something useless. He did not even trust his own lawyer has the capability
to help him out from the county jail. Only one name that he believesbecome the
only one that could. He is Jack Reacher.
3.2 Tracking Down the True Shooter
Due to the dialogue with James Barr that wanted Jack Reacher to come
help him out of this case. Because he knew him as an investigator, someone who
broke a tough case that he thought couldn’t be broken. He thought Jack Reacher
was an investigative genius. There is more to this case than Emerson saw, the
police leader who lead the operation. Barr wanted someone else to understand
that. But his first lawyer was lazy. He wasn’t very interested. He also could not
just lay out the facts because nobody would have believed him. That is why Barr
got so frustrated.
the way. He had a front row seat. He thought I was an investigative
genius.” (Child, 2005:150)
James Barr was a sniper. He was not the best nor the worst but he trained
for more than five years. And training has a purpose. Looking at the shooting base
location, a sniper would have fired from up the highway. Because he has got his
targets walking directly towards him in a straight line: single file, into a
bottle-neck. Setting up with one aiming point and never has to vary it. His targets just
walk into it, one after another. Shooting from the side is much harder. The targets
are passing right to left in front of him, relatively quickly. But he fired from there.
It had to be a real good one, because he trapped himself inside a building, down at
street level, in a congested area, with a much harder shot, in a place whose very
nature made it the best crime scene a twenty-year veteran like Emerson has ever
seen.
“This is fourteen years later. He is not as good as he was. It had to be a
real good one, didn’t it? Because he trapped himself inside a building, down at
street level, in a congested area, with a much harder shot, in a place whose very
nature made it the best crime scene a twenty year veteran like Emerson has ever
seen.” (Child, 2005:157)
Jack Reacher found everything was wrong in this case. Like, why would
he wear a raincoat? It was warm and it was not raining and he was in a car even
never outside. He wore it so he could scrape unique fibers off it onto the pillar.
Also, a pair of shoes he wore to make him traceable every last piece of crap
pinpoint the location so they could go up there afterwards and find all the other
clues. The one missing shot that fired into a pool was not a really missing shot. He
insisted to do it before so it could be found later, undamaged and could tie the
barrel to the crime.
“Because he didn’t miss. He fired into the pool deliberately. He
wanted to put a bullet in the water, down the long diagonal axis, from a
low angle, just like a ballistics tank, just so it could be found later,
undamaged. Just so it could tie his barrel to the crime.” (Child, 2005:159)
Jack Reacher realized that James Barr tried to give a message from the
tape recorder that recorded the conversation with him and the first lawyer. He
meant they should be looking for the other guy that made him do it. Reacher
believed there was a puppet master.
Unfortunately James Barr involved in a serious fight within the county jail
with a mexican. The mexican had a knife in his hand and twelve friends behind
him. The knife was a plastic tooth brush handle wrapped with tape and sharpened
to a point, like a siletto. The friends were all stocky little guys, all with the same
tattoos. They all had cropped hair with intricate patterns shaved across their skull.
Barr was trying to talk to them peacefully but the mexican ignored him, and eight
minutes later Barr was in a coma. He was found some time after that, on the floor,
beaten pulpy, with multiple stab wounds and a cracked skull and severe subdural
bleeding. He was medevacked to the city hospital and sewn up and operated on to
care unit, comatose. The doctors were not sure when he would wake up again.
Maybe in a day, a week, a month, or maybe never.
“Wait, Barr said. He wastrying to talk to them peacefully but the
mexican ignored him, and eight minutes later Barr was in a coma”. (Child,
2005:58)
But after some days got intensive treatment from the hospital, James Barr
got awake and reasonably lucid. The doctors were listening him as stable, but that
does not mean he’s a well man. So, they were restricting his visitors to a
maximum of two at any one time, and keep things as brief as possible.
The doctor said she started out assuming, it is more likely to be real than
fake. A brain injury bad enough for a two-day coma almost always produces
amnesia. Those data were settled long ago. Then she just watch the patient. True
amnesiacs are very unsettled by their condition. They’re disoriented and
frightened. It can be seen how they really trying hard to remember. They want to
remember. Fakers show up different. They will avoid the days in question. They
look away from them, mentally. Sometimes even physically and there is often
some distinctive body language.
With the doctor’s explanation, Jack Reacher start to giving many specific
question due to the day when the shooting incident happened. James Barr was
very cooperative and he was not seem to be bulshitting. He was trying really hard
to remember that day.
After interviewing him, Jack Reacher got a new evidence that directed to
have got the fibres, ballistics, dog DNA, a receipt for the ammunition all the way
from some place. They traced the traffic cone to the city. They have got all kinds
of stuff. But they have not got James Barr on tape driving in to place the cone in
the garage before hand. They must have looked at the tapes a dozen times by now.
If they had found him, they would have printed the stills and pinned them up for
the world to see. But they were not there, which means they did not find
them.Which means James Barr did not drive in and leave the cone beforehand.
And it means someone else did it. It must be the puppet master or another
puppets.
“They have got all kinds of stuff. But they have not got James Barr on
tape driving in to place the cone in the garage before hand. Which means
James Barr did not drive in and leave the cone beforehand. And it means
someone else did it. It must be the puppet master or another puppets.”
(Child, 2005:214)
Reacher was sure that James Barr always practiced his shooting skill
somewhere after got out from military. However, weapon, bullet, and firing range
had already been a part of his life.
So, Reacher tried to get another clue from a firing range. Three miles out
Reacher saw a wire fence on the left shoulder of the road that started directly after
he crossed the Blackford on a bridge. Reacher followed it and where it met the
Blackford again he found a gate and a gravel clearing and a complex of low huts.
angle and ran three more miles north and east. The gate was chained. It
was hung with a hand-painted sign that read: Open 8 a.m. until dark.”
(Child, 2005:338)
By eight twenty he started to hear rifles firing. Then he heard a string of
lighter pops, from a handgun. He found the Humvee guy behind a waist-high
counter in the main hut. Up close he was older than the had looked from a
distance. More than fifty, less than sixty, sparse grey hair, lined skin, but ramrod
straight. He had a weathered neck wider than his head and the sort of eyes that
pegged him as an ex-marine noncom even without the tattoos on his firearms and
the souvenirs on the wall behind him. He is the owner of the firing range named
Gunny Cash.
Reacher asked about the James Barr to him, but he did not want to answer
Reacher’s question unless one condition. Reacher should hit the X of the paper
target. Cash pulled the Humvee off the main track and drove three hundred yards
down the length of an empty range. He got out and clipped the paper target to a
frame and got back in and K-turned the truck and headed back. He parked it
neatly and shut it down.
Reacher sat still for a moment. He was more nervous than he should have
been. He breathed in and held it and felt the thrill of caffeine in his veins. Just a
tiny microscopic tremble. Four fast cups of strong coffee were not an ideal
preparation for accurate long-distance shooting.
But it was only three hundred years. Three hundred yards, with a good
into the centre of the target and pulling the trigger. He could do it with his eyes
closed. There was no fundamental problem with marksmanship. The problem was
with the stakes. He wanted the puppet master more than he had wanted the
Marine’s cup all those years before. A lot more. He slid out of the Humvee and
took the rifle off the back seat. Carried it across rough earth to the coconut mat.
Placed it gently with its bipod feet a yard back from the edge. Bent down and
loaded it. Stepped back behind it and lined himself up and crouched, knelt, lay full
length. He snuggled the stock into his soulder. Eased his neck left and right and
looked around. It felt like he was alone in the middle of nowhere. He ducked his
head. Closed his left eye and moved his right eye to the scope. Draped his left
hand over the barrel and pressed down and back. Now, he had a tripod mount. The
bipod, and his shoulder. Solid. He spread his legs and turned his feet out so they
were flat on the mat. Drew his left leg up a little and dug the sole of his shoe into
the mat’s fibres so the dead weight of the limb anchored his position. He relaxed
and let himself sprawl. He knew he must look like a guy who had been shot,
instead of a guy preparing to shoot.
He gazed through the scope. Saw the hypervivid image of great optics. He
acquired the target. It looked close enough to touch. He laid the reticle where the
two strokes of the X met. He opened his eyes again and saw that the reticle was
still. He stared at the target. Feeling and wanting. He pulled the trigger. The gun
kicked and roared and the muzzle blast blew a cloud of dust out of the coconut
mat and obscured his view. He lifted his head and coughed once and ducked back
bottom of each stroke. Cash dropped down in his place and used the scope to
check the result.
“He stared at the target. Feeling it. Wanting it. He pulled the trigger.
The gun kicked and roared and the muzzle blast blew a cloud of dust out
of the coconut mat and obscured his view. Bull’s eye. The X was gone.”
(Child, 2005:348)
Jack Reacher qualified the requirement he offered. Then, Gunny Cash told
the information about James Barr that Reacher had been asking for. Apparently,
Gunny Cash kept all the records for everyone who ever shot in his firing range.
Reacher discovered that James Barr’s shots was terrible. Even way worse than he
shoul be from fourteen years ago. The paper target of Barr were the product of a
very poor shooter. It showed how bad Barr is to shoot in the very difficult
situation as what happened in the case. It should not be him.
Gunny Cash told him that Barr always came there with a very close friend
named Charlie. Reacher looked at Charlie’s records. He was a tremendous shot,
training hard, but trying to look like he was missing all the time.
Reacher was looking over his data. Apparently, his real name is Chenko
and he hangs with a bunch of Russians. He’s probably a Red Army veteran, one
of the snipers. His boss called himself the Zec, and old time Soviet slang. A zec
was a labour camp inmate. In the Gulag in Siberia.
“His real name is Chenko and he hangs with a buch of Russians.
He’s probably a Red Army veteran. Probably one of their snipers. And
Apparently, Charlie had been Barr’s closest friend two years ago. He knew
Barr’s house, and he knew where everything was. Even James Barr’s dog knew
him.
Reacher concluded that Chenko and his boss had arranged something to
get Barr out of the way. Because on his interview with James Barr, he
remembered going out somewhere, previously. Then being optimistic, like
something good was about to happen. Reacher thought they set him up with
someone. He thought they engineered a chance meeting that led somewhere such
a date on Friday.
“I think they arranged something to get him out of the way. He remembers
going out somewhere, previously. Then being optimistic, like something good
was about to happen. I think they set him up with someone. I think they
engineered a chance meeting that led somewhere. I think he had a date on Friday.”
(Child, 2005:381)
Reacher collected all about the information of Chenko and the Zec
including their resident. Reacher cooperated with Cash and police to track down
the conspiracy between Chenko and the Zec. After dealing with all the plan, they
went to place of the Zec. They caught them there and found the evidences about
4. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
4.1 Conclusions
After doing an analysis toward the novel, it is provable that the strategy of
Jack Reacher which was an ex-investigator military required a high intelligence of
thinking. The strategy can be seen from the long process of revealing the evidence
as the series clues to find the true shooter.James Barr who mentioned the name of
Jack Reacher proved that he kept his promise since fourteen years ago to not ever
do the same mistake again. Because of the capability and the intelligence of Jack
Reacher in tracking down the evidence, James Barr came out from the alleged
suspect of the shooting case andChenko, thetrue shooter which worked for the
puppet master the Zecrevealed to be the prime suspect who wil be responsible for
the cruel crime they did.
4.2 Suggestions
The writer hopes this paper couldgive some advantages and a motivation
for the readers from the novel One Shot. I hope the reader could understand the
story from this novel because this novel is worthy enough to read. It learns us to
be open-minded on looking over a case or something. It forces our intelligence of
mindset to see all the possibilities and hidden evidences behind the
seen-evidences that we need to be wise in making into a decision without relying on
one aspect only.
I hope the reader would be inspired and motivated from the way Jack
Reacher’s used his logic and objective mind also sometimes counting on his
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APPENDICES
BIOGRAPHY OF LEE CHILD
Jim Grant (born 29 October 1954), better known by his
Child, is a British
former American
States.
Jim Grant was born in
and his younger brother
moved him and his three brothers t
was four years old, so that the boys could get a better education. Grant attended
Cherry Orchard Primary School in Handsworth Wood until the age of 11. He
attende
In 1974, at age 20, Grant studie
worked backstage in a theatre. After graduating, he worked i
Grant joine
Grant
was involved in the transmission of more than 40,000 hours of programming for
Granada, writing thousands of commercials and news stories.He worked at
Granada from 1977–1995 and ended his career there with two years as a trade
uni
After being made redundant from his job due to corporate restructuring,
Grant decided to start writing novels, stating they are "the purest form of
entertainment." In 1997, his first novel
moved to the United States in the summer of 1998.
His pen name "Lee" comes from a family joke about mispronunciation of
the name of Renault'
his work on bookstore shelves betw
a
Grant has said that he chose the name Reacher for the central character in
his novels because he himself is tall and, in a supermarket
Cumbria, when he was living i
are written in first person, while others are written in the third person. Grant has
characterised the books as revenge stories – "Somebody does a very bad thing,
and Reacher takes revenge" – driven by his anger at the downsizing at Granada.
Although English, he deliberately chose to write American-style thrillers.
In 2007, Grant collaborated with 14 other writers to create the 17-part
serial thrille
broadcast weekl
2007.
On 30 June 2008, it was announced that Grant would be taking up a
Visiting Professorship at the
2009, Grant funded 52 Jack Reacher scholarships for students at the
university.Grant was elected president of the
Grant's prose has been described as "hardboiled" and "commercial" in
style. A 2012 interview suggested that many aspects of the Jack Reacher novels
were deliberately aimed at maintaining the books' profitability, rather than for
literary reasons. For instance, making Jack Reacher have one parent who was
French was suggested as being partly because the presence of only American
members of Reacher's family would limit the series' appeal in France. The same
interview stated that Grant "didn't apologise about the commercial nature" of his
SUMMARY OF THE NOVEL
In a small
a rush hour crowd in a public plaza, committing a massacre of five apparently
random victims with six shots. The shooter leaves a perfect trail behind for the
police to quickly track him down. Evidence from the scene, of a shell case and a
the wrong guy," and "Get Jack Reacher for me." Reacher, a former Army
Indiana. Reacher has no job, no home, no car, and a shrinking savings account
from his past military pay. Although Reacher has a
does have is sharp moral clarity in a modern climate of moral ambiguity.
Instead of clearing Barr, Reacher wants to assist the prosecution in
convicting him. There are good reasons why Reacher is the last person Barr would
want to see. When Reacher was an investigating Military Policeman years past,
Barr had gone on a killing spree similar to the Indiana shootout, murdering four
men during the
technicality let Barr walk free. Reacher swore he would track the sniper down if
he ever tried it again. Reacher believes Barr is guilty but Barr's sister Rosemary is
convinced of her brother's innocence and entreats lawyer Helen Rodin to defend
her brother. Helen's father is the district attorney who will prosecute the case.
Reacher to form his own conclusions with the available evidence. The local
news reporter, Ann Yanni, is also looking for more information and Reacher is
more than willing to include her in his investigation, in exchange for the use of
her car and a guaranteed public expose on the Barr case. Reacher knows that 35
yards, the parking garage shooting distance to the victims, is point-blank range for
a trained military sniper like Barr. Reacher also knows the shooter missed one
shot on purpose, giving Reacher one shot at the truth.
Reacher drives t
practiced and learns some interesting facts from Gunny Samuel Cash, the former
the presumably airtight case against Barr. Cash is unwilling to reveal information
or his records to Reacher but grudgingly agrees to talk if Reacher is able to hit a
paper target dead center at 300 yards with one shot. After he succeeds, Reacher is
shown 32 sheets of target paper from three years' worth of Barr's practice
shootings at his range, every single sheet with dead-on maximum scores.
After the visit to the shooting range, Reacher adds Cash's information to
the case evidence. Helen and Rosemary sift through the clues in a riveting
analysis and finally get Reacher to conclude that Barr is innocent, which means
someone set up Barr as the sniper. Someone is also trying to get Reacher off the
case, which formerly seemed a slam-dunk but is now falling apart. Reacher is
teamed with Helen, the young defense lawyer working against her D.A. father
Reacher gets closer to the unseen enemy pulling the strings, leading him to
the real perpetrators, a Russian gang masquerading as legitimate businessmen.
The gang's eighty-year-old capo spent much of his life in one of the infamous
Soviet Gulags and is known only as the Zec. Reacher outwits the mob guards in
the Russian gang's fortress, efficiently and brutally dispatching five hoods before
confronting the boss and forcing him to come clean on the conspiracy from
