DAVID STONE’S AGGRESSION AGAINTS CIA DEPICTED IN HIS NOVEL THE ECHELON OF VENDETTA: AN ANALYSIS OF EXPRESSIVE APPROACH

Abstract

The Echelon of Vendetta is the first novel by David Stone. The main character depicted the author’s life as an agent of CIA. This thesis tries to analyze David Stone’s aggression against CIA reflected on the character Micah Dalton. This study is conducted to know the social condition that influences David Stone’s aggression against CIA depicted on Micah Dalton in the novel. The second is to describe David Stone’s aggression against CIA depicted on Micah Dalton in the novel. Furthermore, this thesis uses qualitative method to collect the data. The data are taken from several resources concerning with aggression and the author. The Echelon of Vendetta novel is the source data and other references related to the object of the study such as, internet. M.H. Abrams book The Mirror and Lamp is the theory that is used to breakdown the data. The steps of analysis begin from classifying narrations and dialogues about the social condition that stimulate Micah Dalton to do aggression toward CIA taken from the novel. Then, all the data are analyzed by using expressive approach. The results of this study shows that David Stone depicts his life as an agent of CIA through the character named Micah Dalton, who feels disappointed with CIA in the novel The Echelon of Vendetta.