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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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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
