Amy’s Successful Screwy Plan by Flynn in Gone Girl Novel

AMY’S SUCCESSFUL SCREWY PLAN BY FLYNN’S NOVEL

GONE GIRL

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Elsa Gustika

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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH SUMATERA

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DIPLOMA –III ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM

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ABSTRACT

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ABSTRAK

Kertas karya ini berjudul Amy’s Successful Screwy Plan By Flynn In Gone Girl

Novel .Novel ini menceritakan tentang bagaimana Amy membuat 152 rencana

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Bismillaahirrahmaanirrahiim.

Assaalamu’alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.

First of all, I would like to thanks and praise to the Almighty God, Allah

SWT and prophet Muhammad SAW for blessing and giving me opportunity,

health, strenght and ability to accomplish this paper as one of the requiments to

get Diploma III certificate from English Diploma Study Program Faculty of

Culture Studies, University of Sumatera Utara.

Then, I would like to express a deep gratitude, love and appreciation:

Special thanks to My amazing Parents, my beloved father Alm.Erianto

and my lovely mother Almh.Lin Gustiati who always giving me all your

loves, prayers, cares, support, motivations, advice, financial and others. I

love you more than anything. I present this paper for both of you.

• My dearest sisters, Ayu Anita Rianti S.kom and Novi Yolanda thanks for

your cares, love, patience and supports for me.

• Dr. Matius C.A. Sembiring, M.A. as the Head of Diploma III English

Study Program, who gives me a lot of knowledge.

• Dra. ReditaLubis, Dip. Appl. Ling., M.Hum as my supervisor. Thank

you for the valuable time in giving the correction and constuctive critics in

completing this paper.

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• Dr. Syahron Lubis, M.A. as the Dean of Faculty of Culture Studies,

University of Sumatera Utara.

• All lecturers in Diploma III English Study Program for giving me

knowledge and advice.

• My best friends: Nina Fitriani, Lisha Tantina Haris Hsb, Soraya

Claudia Riski Lbs,Intan Karunia,Ichak Annisa, Onward Fellix. Thank

you for your loves, cares, supports and other things that help me to

complete this paper. I will be missing the days we spent together, and

thank you so much to Muhammad Rizky for your cares, love and support

me .

• All my friends at Diploma III English 2012 in class A and B, thank you

very much for all of you.

Medan, Juni 2015 The writer,

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TABLE OF CONTENS

AUTHOR DECLARATION ………... i

COPYRIGTH DECLARATION ………...…………... ii The Methods of Research ……….. Reason for choosing the topic ……… 1 2. A REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 4 4. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 4.1 CONLUSION ……….…… 24

4.2 SUGGESTION……….… 24

REFERENCES ……… 26

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ABSTRAK

Kertas karya ini berjudul Amy’s Successful Screwy Plan By Flynn In Gone Girl

Novel .Novel ini menceritakan tentang bagaimana Amy membuat 152 rencana

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1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study

We often found so many murder cases in Indonesia and also around the

world. It happened because the suspect had already planned it at first. That kind of

murder is called planning murder, by plan the place and how to get the victim.

Some suspect did it by terrorize the victim. Terror and murder often happens at

the same time. This kind of cases often happen and always ends with death. We

also can find this kind of cases in the novel “Gone Girl”. Even though there are

some weird plans that the woman has made but it did not end with murdering or

death. The suspect in this novel just want to make the victim feels regret and

guilty by giving some clues and create some weird plans.

The writer interested to analysis a novel titled “Gone Girl” by Gillian

Flynn. This novel tells about a woman named Amy Elliot Dunne who is kid book

writer which famous under the title “Amazing Amy?”. Amy had been married for

5 years with her husband named Nick Dunne. On their 5th anniversary, Amy has

gone. Before she had gone, Amy had already prepared some weird plans and clues

for her husband. Amy prepared all those things for more than a year and she just

want to make Nick feels guilty and regret. The writer will analyze how Amy did

her weird plans in the novel “Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn.

Novel is human literature creation. Novel does not, however, present a

documentary picture of life. Kennedy (1991: 203) says that novel is a book length

story in prose, whose author try to create sense while we read, we experience

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In fiction novel, the readers can know more about the characters. By this

description, the readers will know about characters are categorized as a main

characters and peripheral characters. Characters is one part which very important

in a story. Character make the story become real and interesting. We can

understand about the way of story in a novel. Without character, the novel is

nothing.

To understand a novel, we must be able to know the elements of prose,

such as setting, plot, theme, characterization etc. and we need the ability to

identifying the element of novel if we want to analyze a novel. The writer use the

work of the library method that is by collecting data from books in the library and

also search the information from internet, such as data are collected, sorted, and

summarized. The writer also uses intrinsic approach by Wellek and Warren

(1994:24) which is the approach taken the data from text itself.

1.2 Problem of the Study

The problem of the study are

1) What kind of screwy plansAmy do in real life?

2) How the story of fantasy Amy in diary?

1.3 Scope of the Study

The writer would like to analyze Amy’s screwy plans and ideas (through

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1.4 Purpose of the Study

The purposes of study are:

1) The purpose of study is to explain 9 fact’s from 152 Amy’s Diary about the

plans of Amy screwy.

2) Then, the writer also hopes this paper can make we understand about the story

especially about the plans of Amy in Gone Girl novel

1.5 Method of Study

In writing this paper, the writer collected some research methods, the

writer uses the library method that by is collecting data from books in the library

and also search the information from internet.

The writer has two steps in writing this paper. First, the writer read the

novel Gone Girlseveral times to make her understand about the story. Then, the

writer selected to find the screwy of AmyinGone Girl’s Novel. The last, the writer

browsed data from internet to look for the compliment sources and also to know

the biography of the writer, and then the writer made interpretation and analysis

before coming to the conclusions about it.

1.6 Reason for Choosing the Topic

The writer has chosen Gillian Flynn’s novel Gone Girl as the subject of

this paper. The writer is interested in the main character and minor characters in

this novel, especially the main character Amy who has many screwy things that

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2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

2.1 Novel

Novels and short stories are two forms of literature that once called fiction.

Differences between the novel and short stories are a formality in terms of shape,

in terms of story length. A long says hundreds of pages, it cannot be called as

ashort story, but more appropriately called a novel. Novel is able to present the

development of one character. A complicated events occurring in greater detail.

The novel is able to create a complete universe at one complicated. This means

that the novel is both easy and more difficult to read when it is compared with the

short story.Novel is used to show and express an extra ordinary event that

happened to someone. It means that novel is a way for teh writer to find out extra

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.

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

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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.

Peck and Coyle (1984:102) say, “the novel reflects a move away vrom an

essentially of religious view of life towards a new internet in the complextion of

everyday experience. Most novel are concerned with ordinary people and rheir

problems in the societies in which the find themselves.

Based on three quotations that novel in one form of a literary work in

which a fictional story in writing or words and have intrinsic and extrinsic

elements. The story novel tells the story of human life generally in interacting

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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 away,

but more importantly because effects follow causes.

Plot is a series of stories. Abrams in Siswanto (2008:159) say, “that the

plot is a series of stories that formed by the stage of events that weave a story

presented by actors in a story. Goodman (2003:19) says, “The plot important

eventstahtaccour in a story, and plot is the series of incidents in the order which

they take place. Most of the story, the narrator makes the plot .

Shaw (1972:211) says, “That plot is a plan sheme to accomplish a purpose.

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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 accur).

Based on quotation from three critics, that plot is artistic, arrangement of

those events. It means the most important element among other elements of fiction

because a structure events arising out of conflict. 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.

2.3 Character

Burroway (2003: 98) says, “Character as conflict, Rich characterization

can be effectively (and quite consciously) achieved by producing a confict

between methods of presentation. A character can be directly revealed to us

through appearance, speech, action, and though. If you set one of these methods at

ossd with the others, then dramatic tension will be produced.

William whitla (2010:161) says, “Character in the novel is conventionally

discussed in terms of exposition and dialog. Characters can also be, in foster’s

words, either flat or one-dimensional, having a simple function, or round, with

complexity built up through multiple players of description and action.”

Robert and Jacobs (1993:131) say, “in fiction, a character may be defined

as a verbal representation of a human being. Through action, speech, description,

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for, and even loving, although there also characters you may laugh at, dislike, or

even hate.

Round characteris 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.

Characterizations is the way the author displays the characters in the

story so that can know the character or nature of the figures . Characterizations

can be described through dialogue between characters, another character in

response to the main character , or thoughts of characters . Through

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2.4 Setting

Setting is background of story that describes palce, time, and atmosphere

in a novel . Abrams in Siswanto (2008:173) say, “Setting is general locale,

historical time, and social circumstance in every episode or part of place. But

Hamalian in Siswanto (2008:149) say, “that setting in fiction not just place, time,

event teh atmosphere and objects in a particular environment, but also can be teh

atmosphere related attitudes, way thinking, and lifestyle of a community in

response to a particular problem.

Gwynn (2002:17) says, “Setting is simply the time and the place of a

story, and in most cases the detail 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 a place. From the study of the

setting would be known the extent of conformity and correlation between

behavior and temprement with community leaders, social situation , and opinion

of society.

Based on three quotatitions, 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 leven in that society if we are

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3. THE ANALYSIS

3.1 Scerwy Plans Amy’s in Real Life

The meaning of “Screwy” is insane, screwy, weird and frantic. In this novel the meaning of screwy which was used is peculiar. It was because in this

novel, the main character has so many peculiarities in her-self. She wanted to

make screwy plans in order to make her husband felt regret. “Screwy” has the

exact meaning for the main character in this novel “Gone Girl” and the writer

used “screwy” for the title of this paper

Basically an approach consist of two types. They are the intrinsic approach

and extrinsic approach. The intrinsic approach was originally written by Rene

Wellek and Austin Warren in their book “Theory of Literature”. Rene Wellek

introduced his intrinsic approach, which essentially is a study of literary work

based on analyzing the internal elements that build that work. According to

Wellek (1962:332) The natural on sensible starting point for work in literary

scholarship is the interpretation and analysis of the works of literary themselves.

After all, only the works themselves justify all aour interest in the life of an

author, in his social environment, and the whole process of literature. Wellek’s

opinion is that the study of literature naturally needs to be started from the

analysis of the literary work itself because then it would enable us to identify he

many aspects that built that work. Wellek further explained by introducing

elements that from the foundation of a literary work, plot, setting, theme,

character, point of view, and style. By analyzing these elements, a student could

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how the characters act and think. Although so many of elements of novel, the

writer just picks three of that all. Three elements discussed are plot, setting and

theme. Three of elements enough describe clear detail about a short happy

moment of Charlie’s life. Element of plot, setting and theme summarized at

describe about character in the same time. Intrinsic approach takes part from the

literary work itself. Intrinsic approach emphasizes the analysis inter text by

describing the elements of the prose that explained before. Intrinsic approach

applied by the writer in order to show the elements of the novel. Parts of elements

of the prose are characters, plot setting, theme, and point of view. This is the

research uses those elements of prose because those elements are related. Wellek

and Warren (1977:139) in their book “Theory of Literature” sait that intrinsic

approach are being introduced based on a survey of the wider range of forms in

modern literature. They also stated that the main part of intrinsic approach is

based on the text of literary works itself by doing an interpretation and analysis of

it (1977:139). While definition od extrinsic approach which was originally written

by Rene Wellek and Austin Warren in their book “Theory of Literature” too. Rene

Wellek introduced his extrinsic approach such as biography, psychology, social

milieu, ideas, and other arts. This is opposed elements intrinsic to a study work,

which explored in section. According to Wellek and Warren, Works may indeed

reflect the author’s experience, but they must also reflect an author’s hopes and

dreams, or literary tradition and convention and not a document for biography.

Amy Elliot is a book author. She had married with Nick for 5 years. She

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Many people loved and amazed with this book which made this book became

really famous in New York. Amy was 31years old. She had a brown straight hair

and she also had an ideal and sexy body. Amy grew up in New York. She was

taken care of by her father and mother named Rand and Margareth Dunne. There,

Amy did not have many friends. Amy was a funny, smart and had a great

personality. Amy maybe seemed like a good girl but she was a master of

manipulator that expert in mind game. Amy included to immoral category in her

character. She had a bad personality and not enviable because Amy was a

vengeful.

Amy will start to think a different story, a better story which will destroy

Nick because he had done this to Amy. A story which will return the perfection to

Amy and make Amy as a hero which without disabilities and be proud. It can be

seen in this quotation:

“Because everyone loves the Dead Girl”. (Flynn:2014:263)

Amy maybe a little insane because Amy had entrapped her husband by

doing an extra ordinary lie which never done by any other woman. Nick had to get

the lesson. It can be seen in this quotation:

“So I may have gone a bit mad. I do know that framing your husband for your murder is beyond the pale of what an average woman might do. (Flynn:2014:264)

From her 152 entries, Amy used 9 of her entries in order to create her plan

which will she did:

1) Item: 22, cut myself have been on the list a long time.

2)Item: 30, carefully dress wound, ensuring no blood has dripped where it

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4) Item: 12 wrap the first clue in its box and tuck it just out of the way so. The

police will find before dazed husband thinks to look for it.

5)Item: 32, change into generic clothes, tuck hair in hat, climb down the bank of

the river

6) Item: 29 say goodbye to bleecker. Smell his little stinky cat breath one last

time.

7) Item: 33, fet the fuck out of dodge.

8) Item: 34, change look.

9) Item: 3, change the code alarm.

It started form item: 22, hurt her own self, Amy hurt her herself by using

kitchen knife and cutter, she sliced her upper hand. While she sliced her hand, she

bit a cloth so that she would not scream because of the pain. A long scratch had

been made by her, it was not an ordinary scratch but it had already touched the

muscle. Amy lost so much blood. Even though she lost so much blood, it did not

make her collapse. Amy did that while sitting on the kitchen floor and she waited

for ten minutes and let her blood dripped and created a well-blood puddle. When

Nick came home, he would see a blood stain which already dry so the police can

find her. As far as Nick knew, Amy was really scared with blood and it was

Amy’s lie. It can be seen in this quotation:

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No.30: Amy treated her wound very carefully. Amy had to check the

bloodstain which showed up on inappropriate place. Amy also kept the exhibit

very carefully. She wrapped the cutter which she used to hurt herself and kept it in

a bag which will be thrown away later. Amy did not want all of her plan ruined

because of her mistake. It can be seen in this quotation:

“So the self-mutilation was worth it. Still, hours later, yhe slice burns under my sleeves, under the tourniquet . carefully dress wound, ensuring no blood has dripped where it shouldn’t be present. Wrap box cutter and tuck away in pocket for later disposal”. (Flynn:2014:248)

No.18: Amy arranged the family room or the seats. She made the room

looked messy by turning the chairs and tables upside down, breaking the table

glass until the room was full of the shard of glass. It was done in order to make

the police presumed that there was a fight. Amy made it when Nick went to the

bar and made his sister. It can be seen in this quotation:

“I swerved into the living room, and pulled up short. The carpet glinted with shards of glass, the coffee tableshattered. End tables were on their sides, books slid across the floor like a card trick. Even the heavy antique ottoman was belly-up, its four tiny feet in the air like something dead”. (Flynn:2014:27)

No.12: Amy wrapped the first exhibit and had not thrown it away yet.

Amy put it in a box and kept the box in a secret place and all the exhibit were kept

neatly. So, the police will find it before Nick had a thought for looking for it.

Because it had to be a part of police’s entry. It can be seen in this quotation:

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No.32: Amy changed her clothes into ordinary clothes. Amy changed her

appearance and slipped her hair into her hat. She went down to the river bank and

walked along the street. Amy did this although she knew that Teveler family was

the only neighbor that can see the river but Teveler family was in church that

time. So, they would not see what Amy had done. It can been seen in this

quotation:

“Change into generic clothes, tuck hair in hat, climb down the banks of the river, and scuttle along the edge, the water lapping inches below, until you reach the edge of the complex. Do this even though you know thr teverers, the only neighbors with a view of the river., will be at church. Do this because you never know”. (Flynn:2014:248)

No.29: Amy said good bye to her lovely cat named “Bleecker” for the last

time. Amy also filled its food bowl if only people forgot to feed it. After all of this

thing started. Even though Amy never let Bleecker out from her house and

Bleecker was already on the stairs outside the house so Mr. Carl, her neighbor

who lived in front of her house, can saw Bleecker was outside the house and Nick

will be confused with all of those incidents. It can be seen in this quotation:

“Say goodbye to bleecker. Smell his little stinky cat breath one last time . fill his kibble dish in case people forget to feed him once everything starts”. (Flynn:2014:248)

No.33: Amy left her house or went outside the dodge. Amy left her house

because she had already prepared all the clues which will be intended to Nick. Not

only Nick who can find the clues but also the police. She had already planned it

for a year. Amy looked for an interim house where she can live and she bought a

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“Get the fuck out of Dodge” (Flynn:2014:248)

No.34: Changing appearance. Amy change her appearance by cutting and

dyeing her hair and changed fashion style so that she would not be known by

anyone because the public had already known about her missing. She collected

her hair andkept it in a plastic bag. She did not want all of her plan will be ruined.

It can be seen in this quotation:

“I wash my hair in the sink, the warm watermakin me sweat, and then back in the car with my bag of hair trash. I put on a pair of outdated wire-rimm glasses and look in the rearview mirror and smile again”. (Flynn:2014:266)

No.3: Amy changed the alarm code two weeks ago before she went

missing and registered her secret cell phone number as her first number which can

be telephoned. So, if nick set the alarm and he talked to the alarm company, he

will be recorded in his father’s house after Amy went missing. This plan was good

for Amy. It can be seen in this quotation:

“I changed the code two weeks before I disappeared and listed my secret cell as the first number to call”. (Flynn:2014:274)

Amy told to Dessy that she would not go back to her past with Nick,

because Amy thought that Nick would kill her and Amy would never felt

comfortable to love with Nick. But Amy felt regret because she was afraid if Nick

will be imprisoned. It can be seen in this quotation:

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Amy was really remembered all of Nick’s lies. Amy also often wrote

about what Nick did was in her diary. Nick often lying yet sometimes he became

an honest person and told the truth to Amy. Amy also had to prepare so that she

can fight back all of Nick’s lies. It can be seen in this quotation:

“I want to write down every exaggeration, half truth, fib, and bald-facer he utters, so I can gird my fury against him”.(Flynn:2014:389)

The police had been commanded to visit Desi’s house, Amy had murdered

Desi. All of Amy’s plans in order to murder Desi were going well. The police also

will find evidences that Desi had abducted and raped Amy. It can be seen in this

quotation:

“Police have been dispatched to Desi’s home, where they’ll find him naked and drained, a stunned look on his face, a few strand of my hair in his clutches, the bed soaked in blood. The knife I used on him, and on my bonds, will be nearby on the floor where I dropped it”. (Flynn: 2014:417)

Apparently the baby was a part of Amy’s lie. Amy was a great manipulator

for Nick. Finally, Nick found out much about Amy’s lies. It can be seen in this

quotation:

"The baby was a lie. It was the most desolate part for me. My wife as a murderer was frightening, repulsive, but the baby as a lie was almost impossible to bear”. (Flynn: 2014:434)

Amy still felt hatred toward Nick. It was because Nick still tried to ending

their marriage. It can be seen in this quotation:

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Amy will never told Nick about what happened in her life. If Nick went

away from Amy’s life, she will ruin Nick’s life and made his life into the worst

one. Amy will make Nick felt suffer for what he had done to her. It can be seen in

this quotation:

“I won’t divorce you, Nick, I won’t. And I swear to you, if you try to leave, I will devote my life to making your life as awful as I can. And you know I can make it awful”. (Flynn: 201:440)

Amy and Nick have since married a strange way to celebrate the birthday of her

marriage that is by making treasure hunt, and now amy started to make the hunt

for treasure the must be resolved by Nick. It can be seen in this quotation:

“The other one is considerable more extreme. I have decided I’m not going today”. (Flynn:2014:234)

Amy has been back to Nick, but Nick is still doubt and could not

receviceamy back. Amy also need one action to Amy case because of Amy knew

Nick can alone would have divorced him about, but amy also trying to rebuild her

marriage. It can be seen in this quotation:

“Nick launches into the treasure hunt, how tradition, how I always rememberd hilarious inside jokes, and right now this was all he had left of me, so he had to completethe treasure hunt. It was his mission”.(Flynn:2014:443)

For Amy the only problem is Nick, Amy also happened amy was leaving

the evidence and even though as it is possible the police did not fully believe in

Amy. It can be seen in this quotation:

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There were 3 clues in an envelope which addressed to Nick along

with the goods which had been provided by Amy. It will make the police

suspicious that all those things were in possession of Nick.

The first clue is the part of crime scene so the police will know about the

clue and Amy put the word “Working time” on her clue. Logically, the police will

go there with or without Nick.

First clue:

It looked like an entertainment for Amy. She did everything in exaggerate

way in order to check another million clues which had been spread.

I picture myself as your student,

With a teacher so handsome and wise

My mind opens up (not to mention my thighs!)

If I were your pupil, there’d be no need for flowers

Maybe just a naughty appointment during your office hours

So hurry up, get going, please do

And this time I’ll teach you a thing or two

Second clue:

Amy felt really happy after knowing how guilty Nick is after he read all

those sweet letters when he was cheating on Amy.

Picture me: I’m crazy about you My future is anything but hazy with you You took me here so I could hear you chat

About your boyhood adventures: crummy jeans and visor hat Screw everyone else, for us they’re all ditched

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Third clue:

All of those peculiar plans went well after Amy went missing for 40 days.

Finally, Amy went back to Nick. Nick also knew that Amy had already killed her

ex-girlfriend Desi Collins.

Maybe you feel guilty for bringing me here I must admit it felt a bit queer

But it’s not like we had the choice of many a place We made the decision: We made this our space Let’s take our love to this little brown house Gimme some goodwill, you hot lovin’spouse.

This Sub 3.1 explains about 152 Amy’s screwy plans which she made in

order to entrap Nick but Amy only used 9 of 152 plans. She did all those plans

without following the order of the plans just like she wrote in a paper. Amy

started the order from number 22, 30, 18, 12, 32, 29, 20, 34 and the last one is

number 3. Her plans were going well after Amy’s missing for 40 days. Finally,

Amy came back to Nick and also Nick had already known that Amy had

murdered her ex-girlfriend, Desi Collins. Nevertheless, Nick welcomed Amy’s

return because she had already told the public that she was pregnant.

3.2 Amy’s Fantasy In Diary

Amy wrote all of her thoughts in a diary. She wrote the diary for a few

years and was undetected by Nick. All of Amy’s fantasy about her husband was

written in her diary by Amy. She also made the order accord with the date, month

and year on all of her written. Amy always thought that Nick would kill her. The

diary also will become evidence to the police after Amy’s missing.

Fantasy Story from Amy that she had written in her diary on 15th February

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one day but she kept telling herself that Nick would not hurt her, and Amy

thought that the thing that had been told by Nick’s father was right. It can be seen

in this quotation:

“And I thought to myself: Nick’s dad was right about you. You are dumb bitch. Because if you think your husband is going to hurt you, you leave. And yet you can’t leave your h his dead mother. You can’tusband, who’s mourning his dead mother. You can’t. You’d have to be a biblically awful woman to do that, unless something were truly wrong. You’d have to really believe your husband was going to hurt you”. (Flynn:2014:222)

Amy’s fantasy story which consisted in Amy’s diary on 26th June 2012,

Amy was pregnant but Amy had already known that somebody beside herself

already knew about that thing. Amy felt afraid and she already thought about two

things they are she would use the clues as her love letter and Amy needed a gun. It

can be seen in this quotation:

“And then someone else besides me knew, and so I was scared. Once I got back home, I had two thoughts. One: Our anniversary is coming next week. I will use the clues as love letters, a beautiful antique wooden cradle waiting at the end. I will convince him we belong together. As a family. Two: I wish I’d been able to get that gun”. (Flynn:2014:230)

Amy’s fantasy story which consisted in Amy’s diary on 26th June 2012,

Amy did not want to do abortion because the baby in her stomach was still attain

the age of 6 week. Amy felt really lucky to have a husband like Nick, a man who

will be the father for her children. But Amy also felt that Nick was not like the

man she imagined. It can be seen in this quotation:

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looking at me with those watchful eyes, the eyes of an insect, pure calculation, and I think: This ,an might kill me”. (Flynn:2014:231)

Amy’s fantasy story which consisted in her diary on 17th August 2011,

Amy was worried about Nick’s changing attitude that really sudden and fancy.

Amy felt Nick wanted something or wanted to do something and he was being

nice just in case if Amy had already known about. And Amy cannot let Nick that

way. Amy did not want her marriage got broken. Amy will forget every bad

thought of hers about Nick. It can be seen in this quotation:

“I had to write that, I had to let that out. And just seeing it, I know it sounds crazy. Neurotic and insecure and suspicious. I will not let my worst self ruin my marriage. My husband loves me. He loves me and he come back to me and that is why he is treating me so nice. That is the only reason”. (Flynn:2014:194)

In Amy’s diary which written on 17th August 2011, Amy always thought

that Nick did not love her anymore. Amy also thought that Nick had another

woman. Nick had done many liars about the woman to Amy. Amy really loved

Nick but Amy did not feel happy anymore. It can be seen in this quotation:

“Nine days of hearts. In a row. Maybe all he needed to know was how much I loved him and how unhappy I’d become. Maybe he had a change of heart”. (Flynn:2014:192)

Amy thought if Nick will kill her and Amy thought that Nick will roll her

body into trash bag and put her in car and took her to a landfills and threw her

away. It can be seen in this quotation:

“In real life, if Nick had killed me, I think he would have just rolled my body into a trash bag and driven me to one of the landfills in the sixty-mileradius. Just dispose of me”.

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After analyzing 3.2, it wasAmy wrote many things about Nick in her

Diary. She started those written neatly and was undetected by Nick. She wrote all

of those things in the last few years and Amy was really expert in writing because

she was the writer of a well-known book. Her diary also became the evidence for

the police in creating those screwy plans. All of the plans in that diary were

worked and trusted by police. Amy also used the diary as an evidence to imprison

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4. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

4.1 Conclusion

After doing analysis in chapter 3, it has been proven that Amy had made a

list of her screwy plans which aimed to her husband and consisted in the novel

“Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn. The writer found some conclusion that is Amy did

all of those plans in order to made her husband felt guilty. Apparently, the plan

had been prepared by Amy since a year before and she wrote her thought into her

diary and some her thought was not written but she did it in the real life.

Actually, there were 152 plans total which had been made by Amy. But

from the plans list, she only used 9 of the plans. Amy also made 3 clues for Nick

so it would look like that Nick was the one who made Amy went missing and

murdered. All of the plans which Amy’s thought were worked really well in the

real life and got the attention of the public. Police also guessed if Amy was

kidnapped and there were also many unpredicted incident which happened in

Amy’s life. After analyzing this novel, the writer can ensure that Amy had many

lies in her life and she can do everything to make her husband felt guilty.

4.2 Suggestion

After finishing this paper, the writer found a slightly different moral value

because the events in this novel are not well to be emulated and the relationship in

the home life should not full of lies. There should no lies and revenges between a

couple. A spouse should know each other so that there will no disturbance in

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The writer also hope by reading this novel, the readers can enrich their

knowledge about English grammar which used in this novel and the writer hope

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APPENDICES

A. The Biography of Gillian Flynn

Gillian Flynn was born in Kansas City, Missouri to two

community-college professors her mother taught reading; her father, film. Thus she spent an

inordinate amount of her youth nosing through books and watching movies. She

has happy memories of having A Wrinkle in Time pried from her hands at the

dinner table, and also of seeing Alien, Psycho and Bonnie and Clyde at a

questionable age (like, seven). It was a good childhood.

In high-school, she worked strange jobs that required her to do things like

wrap and unwrap hams, or dress up as a giant yoghurt cone. A yoghurt cone who

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For college, she headed to the University of Kansas (go Jayhawks), where

she received her undergraduate degrees in English and journalism.

After a two-year stint writing about human resources for a trade magazine

in California, Flynn moved to Chicago. There she earned her master’s degree in

journalism from Northwestern University and discovered that she was way too

wimpy to make it as a crime reporter.

On the other hand, she was a movie geek with a journalism degree—so she

moved to New York City and joined Entertainment Weekly magazine, where she

wrote happily for 10 years, visiting film sets around the world (to New Zealand

for The Lord of the Rings, to Prague for The Brothers Grimm, to somewhere off

the highway in Florida for Jackass: The Movie). During her last four years at EW,

Flynn was the TV critic (all-time best TV show: The Wire).

Flynn’s 2006 debut novel, the literary mystery

Edgar Award finalist and the winner of two of Britain’s Dagger Awards—the first

book ever to win multiple Daggers in one year. Movie rights have been sold.

Flynn’s second novel, the 2009 New York Times bestseller

was a New Yorker Reviewers’ Favorite, Weekend TODAY Top Summer Read,

Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2009, and Chicago Tribune Favorite Fiction

choice. Movie rights have been sold, with Gilles Paquet-Brenner (Sarah’s Key) to

direct.

Flynn’s third novel

reading this now a

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son, and a giant black cat named Roy. In theory she is working on her next novel.

In reality she is possibly playing Ms. Pac-Man in her basement lair.

Career

After graduating from Northwestern, Flynn worked freelance briefly at

off in December 2008

She attributes her craft to her 15-some years in journalism. She said, "I

could not have written a novel if I hadn't been a journalist first, because it taught

me that there's no muse that's going to come down and bestow upon you the mood

to write. You just have to do it. I'm definitely not precious.Some critics have

accused Flynn of

characters in her books Flynn identifies as

allows for women to be bad characters in literature. She states, "The one thing that

really frustrates me is this idea that women are innately good, innately nurturing."

Flynn also said people will dismiss "trampy, vampy, bitchy types – but there's still

a big pushback against the idea that women can be just pragmatically evil, bad,

and selfish.

Books

When Flynn was working for Entertainment Weekly, she was also writing novels

during her free time, She has written three books.

1)

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Themes include

partly inspired by

shortlisted for the

American Writer

2)

incarcerated brother was truly responsible for the murder of their family in the

1980s, which happened when she was a child during the era of panic about

and directed by

the film.

3)

searches for his wife, who disappeared on their fifth wedding anniversary,

while he comes under police scrutiny as the prime suspect. Flynn wrote the

script for a

film rights for $1.5 million The film was directed by

released on October 3, 2014 to critical acclaim. The novel was No. 1 on the

New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestseller list for eight weeks. Culture

writer Dave Itzkoff wrote that the novel was, excepting books in the

that year, Gone Girl had sold over two million copies in print and digital

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Comic book writing

Flynn was an avid reader of comic and graphic novels when she was a

child. She collaborated with illustrator

story called Masks. It is part of the anthology series

be published by

Personal life

She married lawyer Brett Nolan in 2007 and they have two childrern Their

son Flynn was born in 2010 and their daughter Vivian was born August 6, 2014.]

They met through Flynn's grad school classmate at Northwestern, but didn't start

dating until she moved back to Chicago from New York City in her mid-30s.]

They still reside in Chicago.

B. Summaries

This novel tells about the disappearance of Amy on her 5th Anniversary

with her husband, Nick. Amy has prepared several mystery clues about her gone

and involves her husband as the villain. Amy also wrote a fake diary that told her

husband, Nick, had kill and make Amy run away. Because Amy feels angry and

want to revenge with Nick.

Before that, while they live together, Amy often got contumely from Nick.

In addtition, when Amy told to Nick that she pregnant, Nick got very mad and did

not want that happened to her.

A week after Amy’s gone, Nick got very confuse and starting to find Amy.

Nick reported to the police and told to her parents. Then, Nick made a

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In fact, Amy looks very good and always keep watching Nick in news. She hopes

that Nick is the one who killed Amy.

Several weekends after Amy’s gone, Nick is interrogated by policeman

and the policeman got some evidences that Nick has kill Amy and causes Amy’s

gone with some evidences that Amy has prepared before she’s gone.

When Amy is gone from Nick, she lives in a temporary place then change

her appearance. She cuts and makes her hair coloured, so people do not recognize

her. Amy is very good in mind games. All of her plans she sets very well to

manipulate and hiding her behavior to people.

Nick decided live together with his sister Margo, at that time nick closest

is Margo. Margo knowing that nick have appearance with his student Andy. Turns

infidelity nick and andy has been known by amy

In another time, Amy got trouble in her temporary place. She is betrayed

by her neighbor and her neighbor took all of Amy’s money and kicked her out

from her house. Amy is alone now. And she decided to call her ex-boyfriend

when she was in senior high school, Desi Colling. He is very welcome to Amy

and ask Amy to come and live with him. Desi also hopes that Amy love him back.

Desi loves Amy very much, but Amy has a different plan to Desi and make a fake

story, and told that she is kidnapped and got a contumely by Desi.

After 40 days Amy’s gone, finally Amy decided to back and meet Nick. She told

to media that she is pregnant, but it’s all just a lie. She told that because she wants

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his wife is a killer and psychopath but he can not do much because he did nit have