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< Growth through love in “Dongbackggot(the camellia flower” and “Araby”>
Almost everyone has the memory of beautiful first love. It may have remained in your heart as a happy or sad memory. Whatever emotions it gave you, it would have given you a chance to grow up. “Dongbackggot (the camellia flower)” written by Youjeong Kim and “Araby” written by James Joyce are the best novels that represent this first love. It seems that “Dongbackggot(the camelia flower)” and “Araby” is different in terms of pureness of characters, atmosphere and expressions of narrator.
“Dongbackggot (the camellia flower)” has pure characters. Jumsun, the girl who likes the boy, doesn’t directly show her mind. Instead, she bothers the boy by inciting a fight between her hen and the boy’s hen and swearing hard. It well represents the mind of teenagers who don’t know how to express their feelings. Their pureness makes readers smile. Also, this novel has folksy atmosphere. It contains many regional dialect and shows a friendly rural scene. And the author uses many pure Korean words such as “guksilguksil” which means behaving buoyantly. It makes this novel more soft and folsky. The narrator of this story, the boy who doesn’t knows Jumsun likes him, expresses his mind in a roundabout way. For example, by the phrase that the boy is giddy by the scent of camellia flowers we can know his mind is changed. Although the boy doesn’t understand Jumsun’s love, reader can easily know it by characters’ behaviors such as Jumsun gives potatoes to the boy. Finding out characters’ mind is an attractive element of this book.
“Araby”,the other novel that represents the growth through love, has serious characters rather than pure. So there are some sexual and earnest description. Also, characters shows the gloomy situations of Ireland under the colonization of the British empire. In addition, this novel has a religious atmosphere. There are many Catholic expressions such as “... I bore my chalice safely through a throng of foes.” This holy expressions makes this novel more effective to convey emotions to readers. The narrator of “Araby”, the boy who loves Mangan’s sister, directly expresses his mind to readers. He sometimes murmured her names and keep watching her. Also, he directly expresses the feelings while talking with Mangan’s sister. He also represents the anger he felt at Araby. So readers can easily understand the narrator
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< Growth through love in “Dongbackggot (the camellia flower” and “Araby”)
Almost everyone has a memory of their first love. It may have remained in your heart as a happy or sad memory. Whatever emotions it gave you, it would have given you the chance to grow up. “Dongbackggot ("the camellia flower") written by Youjeong Kim and (“Araby”) written by James Joyce are the best novels that represent this first love. It seems that “Dongbackggot (the camellia flower)” and “Araby” is different in terms of it's innocence of the characters, the atmosphere and expressions of the narrator.
In “Dongbackggot (the camellia flower)” Jumsun, the girl who likes the boy, doesn’t directly tell her feelings. Instead, she bothers the boy by inciting a fight between her hen and the boy’s hen and swears frequently. It represents the mind of teenagers who don’t know how to express their feelings. Also, this novel has the atmosphere of a folktale. It contains many regional dialects and it has a rural setting as the author uses many Korean words such as “guksilguksil” which means having a cheerful personality. The narrator of this story, (the boy who doesn’t knows Jumsun likes him), shows his love in the strangest ways. For example, the phrase that the boy is giddy by the scent of camellia flowers how different he expresses his feelings. Although the boy doesn’t understand Jumsun’s love, reader can easily see by the characters’ behaviours such as when Jumsun gives potatoes to the boy that he loves him. Finding out how characters’ mind works adds to the attractive element of this book.
“Araby”,the other novel that represents the growth through love, has serious rather than carefree characters. So there are some sexual and earnest description. The characters shows the gloomy depictions of the situation in Ireland under the colonization of the British empire. In addition, this novel has an underlying religious theme. There are many Catholic expressions such as “... I bore my chalice safely through a throng of foes.” These expressions makes this novel more able to convey the character's emotions to readers. The narrator of “Araby”, the boy who loves Mangan’s sister, directly expresses his thoughts through actions. He sometimes murmurs her name, keeps watching her. and by directly expressing his feelings while talking with Mangan’s sister. He also represents the anger he felt at Araby. So readers can easily understand the narrator.
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