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1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
Wellek and Warren (1971 : 3) says, “Literature is the mirror of human life that
portrays human feeling, thought, imagination and perception which can be viewed
based on personal judgment”. In other word, literature constitutes the imaginative act
from the human‟s imagination and interpreting life-experiences. Literature transforms
and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.
Eagleton (1983 : 9) also says “Literature in the sense of a set of works of assured and
unalterable value, distinguished by certain shared inherent properties, does not
exist”.In other word, literature work has value of sense that can not be changed.
Based on excerpts of critics above can be concluded that literature can give us
new ways of looking the world and finding significance which the daily use of
language in its more commonplace way has concealed.
Novel is one of literary forms. Gray (1984 : 141) says, “Novels are long prose
fictions, including every kind of plot, all style and manners of dealing with their
material and showing a capability to cover every imaginable subject matter from all
points of view”.In other word, a novel is a long prose fiction almost always
concentrating on character and incident, and usually containing a plot. The intrinsic
elements are truly seen from the novel. Novel has some intrinsic elements, such as
theme, plot, character, setting, point of view and style.
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Along with the development of internet technology, this causes to the rise of
crime called Cybercrime. Cybercrime is criminal activity done using computers and
the Internet which to take opportunities from the victims such as theft and use of an
Internet account belonging to someone else, website hijacked, deception through
social media accounts with a motive for kidnapping, rape and Murder and etc. The
appearance of several cases of cybercrime that often happen and the existence of
cybercrime has become a threat to internet users who are victims, not only in the
material, but also their lives. This situation also present in the novel Wish List by
John Locke. The Wish List is a website that is controlled by multiple agents where
they were granted four wishes of an ordinary man named Buddy Pancake. When
Buddy Pancake and his drinking friends stumbles across Website Wish List and they
jokingly type their impossible wishes. Then, one by one of their wishes start coming
true. But Buddy neglected to read the fine print explaining the price they must pay for
the wishes they‟ve been granted. The result is they ask Buddy to perform criminal
acts as a payment of four of his wishes.
To analyze the story, the writer uses „intrinsic approach‟. Wellek and Warren
(1972 : 139) said that retrieve data only from the text, such as read the text carefully,
sort information of plot, character, theme, background, action and make summary and
conclusion. The writer also uses the library method as the method of study. Library
method based on finding sources and appropriate information from the books or
internet.
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The writer interested to analysis this novel as subject of this paper because the
story is about Website Wish List which can granted four wishes of their visitors but
then asked to perform criminal acts as a payment of four of visitors‟ wishes. As the
focus of this paper, the writer will analysis the Wish List Website and how this
website give big affect to Buddy‟s fate.
1.2 Problem of Study
The problems of study are as follow:
1. What is Website Wish List?
2. Why did Wish List website give affect on Buddy Pancake‟s life?
1.3 Scope of Study
The writer will analyze through the element of the novel, such as plot,
character, setting and theme to analyze the novel.
1.4 Purpose of Study
The purpose of writer in making this paper is :
The writer wants to find out why the Website Wish List works and operates in
Buddy Pancake‟s life.
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The writer uses the method of „library research‟ in writing this paper. The first
stage is the writer reading the whole story in this novel to understand the story. After
understand the whole story of the novel, the writer reading and search data in the
library to get information about the plot. The second stage is to sort the data that has
been collected. The final stage is to analyze such data. To analyze the story, the writer
uses „intrinsic approach‟. Wellek and Warren (1972 : 139) said that retrieve data only
from the text, such as read the text carefully, sort information of plot, character,
theme, background, action and make summary and conclusion.
1.6 Reason for Choosing the Topic
The writer has chosen John Locke‟s novel Wish List as the subject of this paper
because the story tells about Website Wish List which can granted four wishes of
their visitors but then asked to perform criminal acts as a payment of four of visitor‟s
wishes.
