Sully’s Investigation On Phone Syndicate In Albom’s The First Phone Call From Heaven

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SULLY’S INVESTIGATION ON PHONE SYNDICATE IN ALBOM’S THE FIRST PHONE CALL FROM HEAVEN

A PAPER WRITTEN BY

YUNI ASYIFAH NATALIA REG. NO 122202072

DIPLOMA- III ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM FACULTY OF CULTURE STUDY

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH SUMATERA MEDAN

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The Examination is held on July 2015

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

First of all, the writer of this paper would like to say thanks God ALLAH

SWT who has given a lot of blessing to write this paper. Therefore the writer able

to finish writing this paper. The writer believes that without the blessing that God

send to the writer, this paper cannot be finished as it is.

Secondly, the writer also wants to send thanks to the people or friends

who have given her spiritual encouragement to finish this paper. The writer also

belives that this paper has not reached its perfectness so the writer would be very

happy when its readers want to give some valuable suggestion for its perfectness.

And then, I would like to express a deep gratitude, love, and appreciation

to the dean Faculty of Cultural Studies Dr. Syahron Lubis, M.A., and Dr.

Matius C.A. Sembiring, M.A., the head of the English department of the D-III Program who give me a lot of knowlegde about doing in a paper. Then I would

like to express my special gratitude to my supervisor Dra. Redita Lubis, Dip.

App. Ling., Hum., for her time, advice, and guidance to correct this paper during the process of writing and thanks to Drs. Parlindungan Purba, M.Hum as my

reader. I also wish to thanks all of the lecturers in English Diploma Study

Program for giving me the instruction, tuition,and knowledge.

I would like to say thanks to my lovely family especially to my beloved

Parents, Sakwan Lubis and Tibyannur, thank you for all your motivation,

advices, pray, love, and finance for me. And my beloved Uncle and Aunt, Alm.

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really thanks for your motivation, advices, pray, love, and financial. Then thanks

for all my beloved cousin Ahmad Radhi , Rifka Adillah , Anggi Mirani, and

Titha Triana Natalia , give me supprot in longtime.

I would like to say thanks to my belove team ( Sri Novianti, Liana

Pramida, Budi Halim, Elsa Gustika, and Nanda Yustika ) thanks for your supports,cares,and other things that help me to complete this paper. And for My

best friends and My boyfriend in long time, Haris Azis, Suhaika, Nurul

Ramadhani, Mentari Putri and Herlina Harahap, thank you for giving support, pray, advices , and a smile for make me happy finishing this paper. In

particular for my friends, Lara Yoriza, Shella Novianti, Wardha Munawarrah,

Alfi Navais Ritonga, and Nanda Yustika Sari, thank you for friendship during 3 years that have a lot of making happiness and fury. Then thanks to my all

Diploma III English study program 2012 organization, SOLIDAS for all of their

supports during studing at faculty culture studies.

Finally,I do realize that this paper is still far from being perfect. Therefor,

I welcome any constructive critics and suggestions towards this paper. Hopefully

this paper can inspire and give knowledge for anyone in the future.

Medan, 15 July 2015

The Writer,

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REFERENCES ... 26

APPENDICES ... 28

AUTHOR’S BIOGRAPHY ... 28

SUMMARY ... 30

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1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of Study

The era of twenty-one century, Indonesia is very smart reporter. Many

reporters who love to prove the truth of events such as the cases of prostitution is

widespread in cyberspace, and the initials of the artist involved prostitution

opened publicly on television. then simply the police and reporters cooperated in

the investigation so that the perpetrators of the prostitution case that turned out to

be a mastermind of prostitution in an attempt to catch hold in the Office and in the

police force. Therefore, we should be proud of the reporter. Because of the

courage of the reporter in Indonesia cases in Indonesia such as: sexual harassment

and corruption, continue to be investigated and known truth. The thing, that is

uncovering the truth from the hard work of reporter, makes a profit for the

Government and the public in assessing a problem. In the event the same as

prostitution in explain above, there are similarities in the novel the first phone call

from heaven. Where a reporter named Sully proves that a call from heaven in the

novel is told in the engineering of a man named Horace.

"The First Phone Call from Heaven" tells the story of a town named

Coldwater, which got the issue of the four men found the call from heaven. Four

such person is Tess, Kathrine, Jack, and Elias, who claimed to get a call from

heaven namely from those closest to them. The phone rings every Friday and the

phone always no ID number. Coldwater became a city that many tourists visit.

Many foreigners who come to Coldwater and believe it will be a miracle of God.

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Sully the reporter to the four people who got the phone a very bustling haven of

talk about it, because the sense of love to his son Sully ,Sully searching evidence

that phone heaven was real. Sully very do not believe anymore in the local

newspapers, the local library, the mobile phones used by those who got a call

from heaven. With the persistence of Sully to seek the truth which he just

engineering, though Sully had time to go to prison because of dropping the jet

flown by him, because maybe many people argued badly about himself. But Sully

wasn't afraid with the waffle man. all the time, he was busy chasing Elwood,

Mary, Elias, News-obituaries, all of that obsession to prove the falsehood of all

miracles. Since Sully finds that lively discussed miracles are merely fabrications

from Horace, Coldwater back into normal as before the city got the miracle.

The writer is interested in discussing the novel because the novel has

elements of prose that makes the reader to imagine it, then the novel also form a

writer and reader's imagination growing in every paragraph, while Poems have

only a limited and paragraph only makes up some line only. Then if the writer

chose the poem, he must truly understand the meaning of every word. And the

main reason why the writer chose The novel The First Phone Call From Heaven

because the writer is interested in the character Sully, who has more concern

towards the city of Coldwater and thanks to Sully the miracle in Coldwater was

not discussed again in New York.

Kennedy (1991 : 203 ) says that novel is a book- lenght story in prose,

whose author tries to create senses while we read, we experience actual life. The

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are fiction (unreal) and some of notification (real). In notification novel, the

author’s present actual people and events. In fiction, the readers can know more

about the character. By this description, the readers will know about characters are

categorized as a main character and peripheral characters.

The elements of prose are theme, character, setting, plot, point of view,

symbols and language. But the analysis used only three elements of prose that is

the plot, characters, and settings that are able to prove the ability how Sully

successfully investigate the isue someone tough. the writer uses the method

(Libranry Reseach) that collect data from books in the library and also get

information from the internet. Then the writer also uses the intrinsic approach and

analyze the way of the story. Wallek and Warren that is the approach taken the

data from the text itself.

1.2 The Problem of Study The problems are :

1) What is Sully’s opinion about a phone call from heaven ?

2) How does Sully prove the untruth the phone call from heaven ?

1.3 The Scope of Study

There are many aspects can be discussed in this novel, however, the

writer is intersted to focus on analyzing the main character sully, a reporter,

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1.4 The Objective of Study The objective of study are :

1) To explain what is Sully’s opinion about a phone call from heaven.

2) To find out how does Sully prove the untruth the phone call from heaven.

1.5 The Significane of Study Significane of study are :

1) General, benefit from this learning process. The writer wants the reader better

understand the content of the novel, passing three elements of plot, character,

and setting of the story can be chosen to bring more in.

2) In particular, the writers hope readers gain learning and understand why the

writer chose the topic of a novel, without having to read the original novel

from the first part until the end.

1.6 The Methode of Study

The writer makes use of the two methods in the writing of the paper

work,the first a Library research and the second Intrinsic approach.Library

research is to collect data to study the books in the library which is the result of

previous researchers. While Instrinsic approach is an element that compose a

literary work that embodies the structure of a literary work, such as: theme,

character and characterization, plot and pengaluran, background and grounds, and

the center of narration. Of the two methods used, after the writer understand and

gather data that was already understood, sorted, and summarized from

Opera-obtained about the novel. The writer makes the selection of the data collected to

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2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

2.1. Novel

Eagleton (1983:1) says, “There have been various attempts to be define

literature. You can define it, as “imaginative” writing in the sense of

fiction-writing which is not really true. But even the briefest reflection on what people

commonly include under the heading of literature suggests that this will do.”

Literature as imaginative writing plot is reflected from people thought, that is not

true. Types of literature in the fiction genre include the novel, short story, and

novella.

Novel is one form of a literary work which is the story fiction in form of

writings or words and had instances of instrinsik and extrinsic. In a novel author

make a a bouquet having a groove broader and clearly and containing the urethane

story someone and people around him with accentuating dispositive deeper and

setting being diverse. Hence can be concluded that novel is a fictitious tales that

seeks describing or delineating life the characters by using grooves. Fictional

story not only as mere fantasy, but an imagination that is produced by the author

is reality or phenomenon that is seen and perceived. Edgar. V Robert and Henry

E. Jacob in their literary books: An Introduction to Reading and Writing (1995;49)

says that they are some aspects of fiction (novel) from french and Italy to discribe

about, there are : character (the people that goes along in the story), plot ( the

development and the organization of stories), structure (the way a plot is

assembled), theme (the meaning and the whole idea of the story), point of view (

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The word “novel” comes from the Italian, Novella, which means the new

staff that small. The novel was originally developed in the region from other

forms or narrative nonfiction, such as letters, biographies, and history. But with a

shift in society and development time, the novel is not only based on data

nonfiction, author of novel can change according to the desired imagination.

From the statement, Novel, that gives you imaginative, is a fictional long

prose work that adopted from french and Italy to describe about the element prose.

2.2 Plot

Plot is a literary term defined as the events that make up a story,

particularly as they relate to one another in a pattern, in a sequence, through cause

and effect, how the reader views the story, or simply by coincidence. A plot

"insures that you get your character from point A to point Z". Plot according to

Roberts and Jacobs in their book literature (1995;88) said that plot is all the

actions or incidents, speeches, thoughts, and observations are linked together to

make up an entirety, sometimes called an organic unity. The essence of this unity

is the development and resolution of a conflict in hich protagonist, or central

character. The plot is interactions of causes and effects as they develop

sequentially or chronologically. Plot is stories are made up mostly of actions or

incidents that follow each other sequentially. Finding a sequential or narrative

order, however, is only the first step toward the more important consideration.

The plot is the controls governing the development of the actions. In a well-

plotted story , things precede or follow each other not simply because time ticks

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Plot is known as the foundation of a novel or story which the characters

and settings are built around. It is meant to organize information and events in a

logical manner. When writing the plot of a piece of literature, the author has to be

careful that it does not dominate the other parts of the story.

There are five main elements in a plot. The first is the exposition or the

introduction. This is known as the beginning of the story where characters and

setting are established. The conflict or main problem is introduced as well. The

second element of a plot is known as the rising action which occurs when a series

of events build up to the conflict. The main characters are established by the time

the rising action of a plot occurs and at the same time, events begin to get

complicated. It is during this part of a story that excitement, tension or crisis is

encountered. The third element of a plot is known as the climax or the main point

of the plot. This is the turning point of the story and is meant to be the moment of

highest interest and emotion. The reader wonders what is going to happen next.

The fourth element of a plot is known as falling action or the winding up of the

story. Events and complications begin to resolve and the result of actions of the

main characters are put forward. The last element of a plot is the resolution or the

conclusion. It is the end of a story and ends with either a happy or a tragic ending.

From the above statement, plot is the parts that the conflict raising is

climax in a story, but this paper explained that the plot has mixed time. The novel

story in future time , then flashback and repeat again until finally the plot finished

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2.3 Character

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, which a creative author

uses 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.

Roberts and Jacobs (1995;51) said that character is natural facsimile from

the human with all good and bad characteristics. A story is usually related to big

conflict of the character. It probable to involve interaction with another character

in complicated situation, or with idea or ordinary condition. The character may

win,lose,or relevant. He or she can learn and become better for experience or

maybe lose point and no change.

Abram (1981:76) says that character is people who are appeared in a

narrative prose or novel and it is interpreted by the readers as a person who has

moral quality and certain tendency such as being expressed in what they say and

what they do.

E.M. Foster (1927) says, “There are two basic types of characters “round

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Round character is a major character in a work of fiction who encounters conflict and is changed by it. Round characters tend to be more fully

developed and described than flat, or static, characters. If you think of the

characters you most love in fiction, they probably seem as real to you as people

you know in real life. This is a good sign that they are round characters. A writer

employs a number of tools or elements to develop a character, making him or her

round, including description and dialogue.

Flat character is a minor character in a work of fiction who does not undergo substantial change or growth in the course of a story. Also referred to as

"two-dimensional characters" or "static characters," flat characters play a

supporting role to the main character, which as a rule should be round. Though we

don't generally strive to write flat characters, they are often necessary in a story,

along with round characters.

From the statement, Character is a person who is responsible for the

thoughts and action within a story. And he or she can learn and become better for

experience or maybe lose point and no change.

2.4 Setting

Roberts and Jacobs (1987: 230) says that the setting is the natural, manufactured, political, and temporal environment, including everything that

characters know and own. Setting is divided into three types : natural and

outdoors, the object of human manufacture and construction , and cultural

condition and assumptions. Background / setting is something or state of being

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is a wherein the offender was or story occurring (in school in the city in the room

etc.), (2) a time,is when that story occurring (morning, afternoon, night, yesterday,

etc), (3) theatmosphere, is in a state where the story going on. (sad, excited, cold,

peace, desolate etc.). Background formed of some respects, namely: (1) the

geographical. The setting provides the historical an cultural context for characters.

It often can symbolize the emotional state of characters. Stories actually have two

types of setting: Physical and Chronological. The Physical setting is of course

where the story takes place. Likewise, the chronological setting, the “when” can

be equally general or specific.

From the above statement, Setting is including everything that characters

know and own. And three types that is divided natural and outdoors, the object of

human manufacture and construction , and cultural condition and assumptions.

2.5 Intrinsic Approach

Wallek and Warren (1977:75) says that the approach is based on the

intrinsic structural point of text and literature. This means the intrinsic approach

emphasizes the intertext analysis by describing the elements of prose that

described previously. The study of literature with intrinsic approach usually

concern with the content and the form of the works itself. According to Rene

Wellek (1997: 158) many novel studies not only see the relations of literature

with the social structure, but also study of the artistic, perspective or point of

view and narrative techniques. The basic elements to analyzing literary works

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These elements will help the student in analyzing literary works based on intrinsic

approach.

Furthermore Wallek and Warren says, one approach is to find the

purpose and theory of the artist creator. A more useful is based on the comparison

of work of art, social and cultural background the same, can unravel the

background of time , place setting, and social background art and literature.

Furtthemore, it Wallek and Warren said that the golden age of literature

in the days of Elizabeth is not matched by progress in the field of fine arts. The

various branches of art which Platis art, literature, music has the evolution of each

with a different tempo and it has elements of different structures.

From the statement that approach of interpretation and analysis of the

work itself. Performed with several stages of the process in order to get a perfect

result, among others, describe, criticize, analyze and interpret the situation

occurring in the present.

2.6 Phone Syndicate

Phone is An instrument that converts voice and other sound signals into a

form that can be transmitted to remote locations and that receives and reconverts

waves into sound signals. A mobile phone is a wireless handheld device that

allows users to make calls and send text messages, among other features. The

earliest generation of mobile phones could only make and receive calls. Today’s

mobile phones, however, are packed with many additional features, such as Web

browsers, games, cameras, video players and even navigational systems. A mobile

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When the first mobile phones were introduced, their only function was to

make calls, and they were so bulky it was impossible to carry them in a pocket.

Later, mobile phones belonging to the Global System for Mobile Communications

(GSM) network were capable of sending and receiving text messages. As these

devices evolved, they became smaller and more features were added, such as

multimedia messaging service (MMS), which allowed users to send and receive

images. Most of these MMS-capable devices were naturally equipped with

cameras, which allowed users to capture photos with the built-in camera, add

captions, and send them to friends and relatives who also had MMS-capable

phones. A mobile phone with highly advanced features is called a smartphone,

while a regular mobile phone is known as a feature phone. A mobile phone

typically operates on a cellular network, which is composed of cell sites scattered

throughout cities, countrysides, and even mountainous regions. If a user happens

to be located in an area where there is no signal from any cell site belonging to the

cellular network provider he or she is subscribed to, calls cannot be placed or

received in that location.

Syndicate is an outstanding, incredibly atmospheric action-strategy game

by Bullfrog, one of the best of its kind. The game is set in a bleak future where

"Syndicates" control the world. You're a young executive in a small European

based syndicate, you must perform a series of tasks to subdue the major

population centres one by one until you have driven the forces of the rival

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Mariam said that phone syndicate is to sell (something, such as a piece of

writing, comic strip, or photograph) to many different newspapers or magazines

for publication at the same time. Syndicate is group of people or business

companies combined to pursue a commoninterest. And publish an article in many

different newspapers or magazines by making it available to a central organization

that distributes it. His column is syndicated throughout the world. Although there

are many legal syndicates formed around the world, the usage of the term "the

syndicate" in colloquial English often refers to one involved in illegal activities.

The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines syndicate as a group of people or

businesses that work together. This may be a council or body or association of

people or an association of concerns, officially authorized to undertake a duty or

negotiate business with an office or jurisdiction. It may mean an association of

racketeers in organized crime.

From the statement, Phone Syndicate is group of people or business

companies combined to pursue a commoninterest and His column is syndicated

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3. THE ANALYSIS

3.1 Sullivan Harding

Sullivan Harding is a man of tall stature, like wearing a hat Ski, jacket

Suedeusang, and boots. Sully was living in an apartment, Sully can see the beauty

and comfort of the rooms on the 2nd floor which was heated furnace radiator.

When Sully gets time to rest from his job as a pilot of the plane, Sully spent much

time in the apartment of his place of residence, because Sully can see the beauty

of the pine trees that leads to the river and the sound of the little water that flows

in the river. Sully who loves the cold, the way Sully runs very slowly, and always

bowed his head. Because when Sully is running there is a sense of trust in himself

which makes Sully always looked down. Sully is a man who is very diligent,

brave, and Deft.

Sully had a very beautiful wife named Giselle and a boy named Jules,

Giselle is beautiful woman eyed sea green, charcoal black hair, slim body, and a

skinny shoulders are always reflected in the mind of Sully. With wife Sully gets a

boy who is handsome, curly-haired and. Sully the already 5 years married to

Giselle has a very harmonious life, where every holiday Sully always invites

Giselle and her son went to spend time with. A when Sully was asked by it to

replace his friend named Blake to fly jet aircraft F-18 Hornets return to

Coldwater.

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Sully flew jet aircraft, but destiny said to another. The aircraft flown

by Sully fell, when he wanted to land atthe town of Coldwater. When his

wife heard the news,his wife wanted to see it. But due to the rush would like to

see Sully, Giselle suffered a head-on collision on a highway. Twas unfortunate

fate experienced by Giselle, Sully saved by parachute jackets make the situation

does not happen anything. But when Sully heard his wife had an accident, Sully

him with a heart that is very anxious to the hospital. Sully saw his wife lying

comatose, a very heavy blow to her life.When Sully saw the newspapers that the

charges fall is considered negligence.Evidence stating Sully very strong guilty,

because when Sully did a blood test, Sully stated drinking alkhol before flying a

plane. Sully admits that before leaving for Sully and his friend indeed drink, but

that's because Sully should be no flight schedules. Because the flight that he had

done to replace his friend. But Sully did not want to prolong the problem, Sully

offered himself for being arrested and imprisoned for ten months. Because if the

punishment problem extend Sully who will received growing. So Sully decided to

obey the rule of law which is dedicated to him. Sully felt his life very destroyed

because of this incident, Sully should be in jail and his wife are having a comma.

Sully and the very loved ones must be deposited to her parents, living in the city

of Coldwater, too, but far from the apartment Sully about 1 hour to get to her

parents ' place.

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Sully was dismissed from the air force because it is considered careless

on duty he was working, then Sully must receive legal decision that Sully is guilty

and imprisoned for ten months. Sully accept all that happens. Since the incident

the aircraft, Sully to lose freedom and happiness. After ten months passed. Sully

came out of prison, Sully felt her mental and physical condition are still in prison.

Sully returned to his apartment with the different conditions only Sully himself

who is in bed, because his wife had died and his son still at home parents. Sully

felt lost all those very Sully love. It was like the destruction of the Earth is near

him, but Sully must be strong. Because there is a child of Jules love fruit Sully

and Giselle that must be fought out of his life. Sully pick up his son to the home

of her parents. Look at the growth of his son Jules good taken care of by her

parents remind Sully to Giselle, Giselle is also just wish among them, happy is

definitely the Sully felt. After a few days out of prison, without a job. But Sully

must work to finance her life along with Jules, however ; when Sully applying for

work everywhere, no one will accept it because the ex-convict, but Sully Sully

suddenly met with a very good high school as friends because his friend offered

him work in Northern Michigan, the Gazetteoriginally Sully doesn't want to work

inside the Gazette since Sully does not want to connect with companies that have

mempermalukannya in the city of Coldwater. Because the Gazette is a small

company that contains a wide range of news in the newspaper. His friend know

that Sully was actually forced to work in his company, because it was a friend of

his gave Sully the work field Reporter, to find news and provide information to

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“He caught his reflection in the mirror mussed hair, blood-shot eyes,jwaline coated with stubble. He had spent another week searching for work in the nearby towns of Moss Hill and Dunmore. People were not encouraging.” (the first phone call from heaven ; pg. 35)

The analysis of this section later, Sullivan Harding was a member of the

air force Yes having a life in harmony with his wife and son, everything changed

after Sully dropped the jet in the steer to return from duty and returned to

Coldwater, this opportunity was also used to Sully met his wife Giselle. Air crash

makes Sully should be in jail because the accused was negligent, then a life lived

only Sully jailed for ten months and accept the fact that the wife who Sully love

died after a coma a few months. Out of prison, Sully tried to learn as a newspaper

reporter, the work was given by a friend. But friend Sully know that Sully did not

want to work in the Gazetta because it relates to newspapers.

3.2 Finding to Untruth

Sully has been out of prison and now Sully work became a reporter at the

newspaper, Sully fair calm because of the income. Sully can finance the necessary

needs of the children, they live in an apartment. Since Sully didn't want to hassle

her parents who are old, which for nurturing her son jailed Sully. Sully, who

works in the Gazette as a reporter, saw the news on television about the Coldwater

news got a call from heaven, because this news very interesting about he said,

because his son join the trust on the news. Sully promised wanted to prove the

truth. This really became the first task for him as a reporter, coupled with a sense

of no confidence and form a very deep love for his son. Because his son Jules

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her mother will also call as those who got a call from heaven. The sadness felt

determined to make that Sully is powerful enough to do a search if true call from

heaven right or just engineering.

“Still,here in Coldwater, people are wondering if they might be the next to get a phone call from heaven. “ you gotta be kidding me,” Sully mumbled.(the first phone call from heaven ; pg. 48)

Sully as a reporter, with a very strong enthusiast looking for the truth

about a call from heaven. Sully prepare all needed equipment needs as a reporter,

namely book journalist, and recording tool. And find out the sources associated

with the call from heaven. In terms of its search Sully hide it from other reporters,

because if another reporter found out about her suspicions, would ruin the plans

that have been drawn up Sully in such a way to catch the perpetrators who made

the call from heaven. As a reporter who first performed by Sully to visit a public

library Coldwater, since all events that are in the city of Coldwater definitely has a

definite historical archive was placed in the library area. After visiting the library

Sully did find results related to a phone call from paradise in the city of

Coldwater, there's no event like it was earlier in the city of Coldwater. Sully just

to find the history of the phone was first made by Allexander Bell, that it used to

be when making his first phone allexander Bell comes from the broken bones of

the dead, then Sully also read in the library that the sound recording device could

save the former voice of the dead.

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Sully had a sneaking suspicion he would second that is the phone used by

four men who received a call from heaven, after Sully do about mobile phone use

by four recipients of the phone found there is similarity Sully prepaid phone being

used by them. Sully then ask for Jason who are experts in field of IT helped him

to do more about the similarities in the prepaid phone being used by them. In fact

Jason was reluctant to help Sully because Jason felt it will be wasting her time just

to work, but the sense of trust that is the same as Sully, Jason helped Sully to do

about mobile phones that use prepaid the same.

“Probably. It might take a few minutes.” Jason started to type, then stopped and leaned back. “I can get in major crap for showing you this.” “I kind a figured,” Sully said. Jason drummed his fingers on his knees. “Ah ,what the hell . Let’s do it .” He grinned. “I hate this job anyhow.” (the first phone call from heaven; pg.147)

Sully did not succeed against its search, against existing dipikirannya

analysis was not performed the results of truth, While the city of Coldwater that

time met by crowds of tourists, the hotels in the town of Coldwater is full, the

streets become bogged down, and police officers stand guard on all fronts so as

not to riot in the city of Coldwater. With fully of curious after searches that Sully

did not yet succeeded. Sully came to the funeral somehow Sully had a hunch that

there will be a way for the search in the cemetery later above all suspicion. Sully

came to the cemetery, there is visible adjacent to the sitting room Mary Horace.

Room registration at Coldwater, there are only two spaces. The first room is the

second room Maria and Horace. Sully entered the room registration funeral and

went to Maria, Maria explains if Sully would like to meet with Horace, Horace

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cemetery of Horace never entered every Friday, every Mary asks the reason

Horace had no particular reason to answer it, Sully who heard the news from

Mary had a very strong suspicion to Horace. Sully asks Mary provide archives of

the dead related to the four men who got the call of heaven. Maria gave the

archive to him and says to Sully, that Horace very acquainted with Sully, Mary

says that Horace knows Sully in the past, the times Sully is imprisoned,and when

the wife Sully died. Maria asked Sully did you have relatives. Sully is very

surprised by the question because Sully altogether ignorant of Horace. Sully

suspicions growing, Sully asks liz to find the address of a library officer Horace.

Sully then get the address and hurried towards home address Horace provided by

liz.

“I need an address. He tried to catch his breath. Have to find out, where Horace lives.” “who’s Horace”, “ from the funeral home.”, “ ok,ok,” she said, moving to the computer. (the first phone call from heaven ; pg. 264)

Sully rushing carries his car after knowing the address of Horace, though

it snowed and it should not allow Sully to that folder, but does not shake the spirit

of Sully to prove that a call from heaven who becomes a miracle in the town of

Coldwater is engineering. For this is the guidance of Sully in its quest for this.

With a very great doubts, because if this is indeed the manner of Horace. Sully

will be puzzled what to do since Sully doesn't bring anyone there, own Sully

stepped in Horace to prove all she bargained for. Once it gets to the home of

Horace, Sully secretly entered because Sully fear Horace saw it. The increasingly

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seemed to lift a very heavy barbells. But without a doubt Sully enters a very dark

home of Horace, fortunately Sully carries a flashlight to illuminate the way. When

Sully entered in Horace, Sully saw lots of cables, batteries scroll by and scattered.

The equipment is piled up on the shelves, but does not seem to be enabled again.

Very messy and fairly old Sully House surrounds Horace, then a voice called him

and it turns out it was Horace. Sully feels this is a trap of Horace. Sully, looking

weapon, props just in case if there is something with him. Horace called her and

took her to the basement, upon entering the basement, Sully is staring at that there

are sophisticated technology before him. A very wide screen with multiple

monitors showing the State of the city of Coldwater-filled crowd. Some keyboard

and electronic box lunches, then Horace squeeze one button and the display shows

Katherine weeping got a call from his brother who was dead. Votes loud sounds

from Katherine screens and loudspeakers in the basement, making Sully was

surprised. Sully saw Horace see list on a screen and Horace looks very happy

when looking at its screen.

“Stop it!! Horace seemed taken aback. I’m not doing anything to anyone. You are!it’s terrible! Really? He motioned toward the screens. It doesn’t look terrible. This is insanity, Sully whispered. It’s huge lie, Heaven? are you sure about that? You’re giving them false hope.”(the first phone call from heaven; pg. 284-285)

Sully very angry, because what has been heard by residents in the town

of Coldwater from Katherine phone everything is engineered from Horace. Sully

seemed to want to kill Horace but Sully was not able to see the body very thin

Horace. Since Sully strongly feel lied to by Horace, Sully destroy all the

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Because of you, Sully very wonder why these events are associated with it. What

connects them with the happenings in the city of Coldwater. Horace tells Sully to

read archives that exist in the cemetery that is associated with it. After informing

it, Horace disappeared and her house dark, Sully whose heart the heat out of the

House by walking slowly because Horace dead lights and go straight, at the Sully

car reading the archives taken from the cemetery, and think of the words said by

Horace. If the archive read, Sully would know the reason, Sully read the archive

slowly and eventually Sully get a reason from the archives turns out Horace is

Elliot Gray, which makes Sully to lose everything. Sully felt devastation second

time, Sully rushed like to told to everyone in the city of Coldwater, Sully tells

Jason by phone. But just tell the little that the alleged existence of this true for

Sully.

“Why did you do it?, to make the world believe. Why does that matter?, if it believes, it behaves better. What’s in that for you? Penance, sometimes you sit in a cell and don’t deserve it, Mr. Harding.” (the first phone call from heaven ; pg. 287)

When Sully is still on the way which is very close to the home of Horace,

Sully saw the police car leading to the home of Horace. Sully confused they know

where, if Horace was the one who did it. Sully ignored it because Sully want to

soon meet with his son and told me everything, but the shadow of his wife Giselle

continued to think about it. The shadow seems to say don't tell everything to Jules,

who initially wanted to Sully determined told Jules now lost, because the words of

Horace and the shadow of Giselle. Horace tells her that Sully won't be able to say

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home of Horace, found that Horace had died, and Jack also found a letter

addressed to Sully. Jack took the letter and did not tell anyone because Jack didn't

want to prolong the problem. After taking the letter and go. Police Chief Jack

Sully to call and tell that there is a letter that placed him on Horace. Jack also told

Sully that Horace was dead. The next day the Sully police station came to to meet

with police Chief Jack and take his letter. Jack said to Sully, Jack did not want to

prolong this issue. Because it's better reading at home only Sully. When it came to

their House, Sully read made by Horace, and understand why Horace did that.

Sully forgive Horace and start a new life, after the events of terbongkarnya. Sully

feels relieved and can sleep soundly again. And the city of Coldwater back into

town and as usual and normal after proofs done by Sully.

“It was computers. Software. The dead people left phone messages that were used to re-create their voices. It was a fake the whole time. You have to tell them. Who did it?”(the first phone call from heaven ; pg.291)

This is the analysis of subab, Sully a reporter trying to prove a miracle

phone call from Paradise City's horrendous Coldwater is just engineering. How to

prove the truth of Sully, 1. Sully visited public library Coldwater, 2. Sully

suspected mobile phone used by the four people who got a call that heaven, 3.

Sully came to the funeral. From the search conducted that prove cemetery Sully

truth sought by him, that the existence of a call from heaven is simply the

engineering of the men who worked in a funeral for two months named Horace.

After he investigated everything, Sully knowing that a call from heaven associated

with her past. Horace who did the engineering, because it forms a request maafnya

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4. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

4.1 Conclusion

Sully ,a reporter, cares about the environment of the city of Coldwater,

especially against a call from heaven that affect most of the population. Sully is

able to prove the truth of the phone from the heaven. And as a reporter Sully

prepare required, when searching for the truth. With the help of colleague Sully

helped to search for any suspicion that he is thinking.

Sully is a member of the air force who has a good personality, and has

very little family harmony. ordered by the range to fly jets that mandate will be

flown to Coldwater, however when Sully flew aircraft that will take off, all of a

sudden the plane crashed. Since the events of Sully's life changed. Sully to lose a

very loved wife, and Sully must be removed from the members of the air force

since Sully declared negligent in carrying out its tasks. Sully who has been jailed

for ten months now has been free, his life very changed. Sully feels his freedom

was like staring at a dark future. But he has a friend who is very caring towards

and attened Sully to work in the “Gazetta”, a news office reporter and looking for

news. Though Sully did not like the work, but Sully very grateful towards his

friend at least the job can finance his life and his son.

Sully's new two-day become a reporter, had gotten a very news will not

go to his opinion. Although it does not make sense, but as a reporter Sully must

seek the truth. Some of the searches that analysis does not bring results. But the

last search makes Sully so shocked, that the perpetrators of a call from heaven is

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get Horace did this. Because the form of apology to him, initially does not

understand after reading the archives of Sully knowing that Horace is Elliot Gray,

which makes her job loss as a member of the air force.

4.2 Suggestion

After analyzing the novel The First phone call from heaven, I hope the

writer can better understand about the characters and storylines in the novel, then

without reading the novel. After reading this paper wishes readers to better

understand the content in the novel The first phone call from heaven.

Hoping this paper can also be a reference to better analyze students about

literature and other concerns about the novel and I hope this novel addressed to

paper next, because it can still be a reference paper next, Because there is still

much that can be analyzed. Then the writer hope the spirit of a character in the

novel becomes a reference for students to become someone who is searching for

the truth. This paper may be the source of the book will be issued to be learning

about the intrinsic approach in courses literature. And I would like to add that this

novel contained some positive messages and the struggle for those we love when

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APPENDICES THE BIOGRAPHY OF MITCH ALBOM

Mitch Albom was born in New Jersey in 1958, the second of three

children. He grew up loving music and taught himself to play piano. In fact,

throughout his teenage years, he played in bands. Albom graduated high school

after his junior year and then attended Brandeis University in Waltham,

Massachusetts, where he majored in Sociology. After graduation, he continued to

explore the world and his love of music, performing in Europe and the United

States. However, while living in New York in his 20s, Mitch took an interest in

journalism and volunteered to work for a local weekly paper, the Queens Tribune.

This piqued his interest in the craft, so he attended graduate school, earning a

Master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism,

followed by an MBA from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.

Never forgetting his musical roots, he paid part of his tuition by working as a

piano player. Following his academic career, Albom took on full-time writing,

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Sports Illustrated and The Philadelphia Inquirer. He moved to Detroit in 1985,

where he was a sports writer for the Detroit Free Press. He was able to use his

talents in multiple forms of media, working in newspapers, radio, and television.

He currently hosts a daily talk show on radio show and appears regularly on

ESPN's Sports Reporters and SportsCenter. Albom, who married Janine Sabino in

1995, is the author of four novels. Three of them have been turned into TV

movies, including Tuesdays with Morrie, which was produced by Oprah Winfrey

in 1999.

Career

Mitch Albom started S.A.Y. (Super All Year) Detroit in 2006, as a way

of combating homelessness in Detroit. Since then, the charity has raised close to

$1 million, all of it distributed or ere-marked to make life easier and more

productive for the city's most needy. At Albom's insistence, no salaries or

expenses are paid from the funds raised. Albom is an internationally renowned

and best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, playwright, and radio and

television broadcaster. His books have collectively sold over 26 million copies

worldwide; have been published in 50 territories and 42 languages around the

world; and have been made into Emmy Award-winning and critically-acclaimed

television movies. He writes a regular syndicated column through the Detroit Free

Press, hosts a syndicated radio show, and appears regularly on ESPN's "The

Sports Reporters."In 1995, he re-encountered Morrie Schwartz, a former college

professor who was dying of ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. His visits

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Mitch away from sports writing and began his career as an internationally

recognized author. "Tuesdays with Morrie" is the chronicle of Mitch's time spent

with his beloved professor. As a labor of love, Mitch wrote the book to help pay

Morrie's medical bills. It spent four years on the New York Times Bestseller

listand is now the most successful memoir ever published. His first novel, "The

Five People You Meet in Heaven" is the most successful US hardcover first adult

novel ever. For One More Day, his most recent, debuted at No.1 on the New

York Times Bestseller List and spent nine months on the list. In October 2006,

"For One More Day" was the first book chosen by Starbucks in the newly

launched Book Break Program, which also helped fight illiteracy by donating one

dollar from every book sold to Jumpstart. Albom wrote the screenplay for both

For One More Day and The Five People You Meet in Heaven, and is an

established playwright, having authored numerous pieces for the theater,

including the off-Broadway version of Tuesdays With Morrie (co-written with

Jeffrey Hatcher) which has seen over seventy productions across the US and

Canada.

THE SUMMARY OF NOVEL

The First Phone Call from Heaven is a novel that tells the story of the

romance, history, and beliefs. From the novel by Mitch Albom, this deals with the

sense of desire to Debbie an expert with a phone that his voice is sorely missed

every day. The novel tells the story of a small town of coldwater, which

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miracle occurs where some of the people who live in the small town of first got a

call from heaven and this phone came every Friday. In this novel is told also about

two years before the invention of the telephone, Alexander Bell shout into the ear

of the dead. Eardrums and bones related, cut from a beautiful corpse by fellow

Bell, so that the Bell could learn how the eardrum siphon votes. He taped a straw

on the ear that, put a dark piece of glass at the other end, and put a funnel on the

outside. When Bell shouted into the funnel, the corpse suffered eardrum

vibrations. Therefore, the people who died skull conjures up that inspiration. So,

arguably the dead have become part of the phone, two years before anyone ever

see his. The novel also tells the story of the trust the community around with other

people about a call from heaven which resulted in uproar as there is one of the

recipients of a phone call from heaven claimed that he actually lied there is no call

from heaven that he earned. Recognition that keeps people coming to coldwater in

doubt of a call from heaven. In addition to all the happenings that sully was the air

force who is now a reporter finding out all the truth about the call from heaven

through Elias and archives in store by Maria. At the end of the story the novel

happen love story between Jack and Tess then expression searches of Sully about

the yakinannya against the phone-call from heaven. And terbongkarnya the secret

when sully its supposed innocence on Genesis f-18 aircraft crashed. all that in find

out by sully on the phone-call from the paradise with regards to past sully when

he is still in the air force. Sully proves that a call from heaven is the manipulation

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THE LETTER FROM HORACE TO SULLY

Dear Mr. Harding,

I beg your forgiveness.

My real name,as you now likely know,is Elliot Gray. I am the father of

Elliot Gray Jr., my only child,with whom you are also tragically familiar.

On the day of your plane crash,it was I who destroyed the flight

recordings at Lynton Airfield,a relatively simple task for someone with my

background.

I did so in a foolish attempt to protect my son.

We had been estranged for many years. His mother died young,and he

did not approve of my occupation.In hindsight,I cannot blame him.It was

clandestine,deceitful work that often took me away for long periods of time.I did

it in the name of country and government,two things that mean surprisingly little

to me as I write this.

That morning,because he refused to take my calls,I arrived unannounced

at Elliot’s home. I had come to settle affairs with him.I was sixty-eight years old,

and had been diagnosed with an incurable cancer. It was time to resolve our

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Unfortunately,Elliot did not receive me well.We argued. It is a father’s

naive belief that he can always make things right in the end. I could not. Instead,

he rushed out agitated and angry.An hour later,he gave you the wrong clearance.

On such moments do lives turn.

I believe it was my presence that put him in a distracted state.I knew my

son. He had his weaknesses. But his work,like mine,was impeccable. I had driven

to the tower to hand him a letter that contained my final wishes. I could have left

it at his home,but I suppose,deep down, I wanted to see him once more. I arrived

in time to hear the faraway sound of your jet crashing.

There are no words to descri be that moment.My training prepares me for

controlled behavior in chaotic situations. But I’m afraid my son panicked. I found

him alone in the tower’s control booth,yelling,“What did I do? What did I do?” I

told him to lock the door and let me handle things as I moved quickly to erase all

data—thinking,like an operative,that with no flight recordings,he could not be

proven at fault.

For some reason,as I did this,he fled the facility. To this day I do not

know why. That’s the thing when people leave us too suddenly,isn’t it? We

always have so many questions.

In the confusion that followed,I left the tower undetected,another thing I

am trained to do.But after learning of Elliot’s car crash, his death, and your wife

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from a world of checks and balances. My son,I am responsible for. You and your

wife were strangers,crossfire victims.I became desperate to make amends.

A few days later,at Elliot’s funeral,I witnessed friends I didn’t know he

had.They spoke lovingly about his belief in a better world after this one.They said

he trusted in the grace of heaven. I never knew he felt that way.

For the first time in my life,I wept for my child.

I came to Col dwater to settle my debts—to him and to you.With access

to your military records,I was able to study your background.I tracked your return

here,how you’d moved your son in with your parents as you dutifully visited your

wife in the hospital.When I learned of the charges you faced,I felt grave concern,

knowing no evidence would be found to defend your actions. The ongoing case

meant Elliot’s death was constantly in the news.My conscience found no rest.

I have always been a man of action,Mr.Harding. Knowing my life was

drawing to a close,I purchased a nearby home,took on a new identity (again,a

simple matter with my government background),and,by fortuitous accident,met

Sam Davidson,who was hoping to retire from his life’s work at the funeral home.

As you approach death,its mystery takes on a mournful appeal.I bought an interest

in his business,and discovered that the grieving of others gave me comfort.I

listened to their stories. Listened to their regrets. Nearly all of them had a single

desire—the same desire,I suppose,that led me to the airfield that day: to speak

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I decided,for a handful of them, to make it so. To make my last act one

of empathy,and perhaps give you and your son something hopeful after your

wife’s passing. The rest—how I did it,the eight voices,the timing, the details—I

am fairly sure you will have figured out by this point. Do not count on discovering

much evidence. My former employers will cover any important tracks. When you

do what I did for so long,you are never truly retired; as my identity could be an

embarrassment to them,they will reduce my significance and ensure I remain

mostly a mystery. But I am sharing this with you, Mr. Harding,because to you I

can never repay my debt. You may think someone with my background would

have no belief in God. That would be inaccurate. It was with fierce belief in

God’s support that I justi fied my actions all those years.

I did what I did in Coldwater as penance. I will die,as all of us do,without

knowing the outcome of my works. But even if my methods are revealed,people

will believe what they choose to believe. And if a few more souls have come to

faith because of these calls, perhaps the Lord will show megrace.

Either way,by the time you read this,the mystery of heaven will besolved

for me. If I could truly contact you and tell you of its existence,I would.That

would be the smallest of debts I could repay.

Instead,I end this as I began it,asking your forgiveness.Perhaps,soon, I

will be able to seek the same from my son.

Sully’s Investigation On Phone Syndicate In Albom’s The First Phone Call From Heaven