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Lee Cheong-jun's novel <Your Heaven> can be seen as a story of Cho Baek-heon leading the leprosy sufferer to build a paradise, but it can also be seen as a story of how the leprosy sufferers to settle down on "So-rok-do"island. So based on the theory of migration, this paper studies the life of leprosy sufferers in "So-rok-do" island. From the novel, we can see the three stages of migration and settlement of leprosy patients in "So-rok-do" island. First, they used to be healthy people, but because of the war and plunder, they lost their hometown and moved to the vagrant road. During the migration, they contracted leprosy. After they became leprosy patients, they were despised and persecuted by healthy people. They were driven out everywhere, wandering on the road of despair, and finally were taken into "So-rok-do" island. In the long vagrant life, they have jealousy and resentment to the healthy people, and formed a brutal and cruel character. The second life is the life of leprosy patients forced to immigrate to "So-rok-do" island. When they first moved in, they wanted to settle here, set up their families, and actively participate in infrastructure projects. But their efforts and sacrifices have become tools used by the leadership to gain political achievements. They were enslaved, isolated and deprived of the most basic rights of being human. "So-rok-do" island became an "exile place" where the first generation of migrant patients could not settle down physically and mentally. Most of them are indifferent to this fate and live with resentment. A few of them chose to flee the island for freedom. Third, let's take a look at the improvement of the lives of the second generation of immigrants and the gradual transformation of "So-rok-do" island into a settlement. The life of the second generation immigrants is better than that of the first generation in both material and spiritual aspects. With the improvement of living conditions, "So-rok-do" island has become the second generation of immigrants to settle down and breed offspring. But because of the Experience of leprosy and their childhood experience, they suffered from the mental trauma that could not be easily recovered. Because of this psychological trauma, "So-rok-do" island has become the "Hometown" for them to settle down, but they still do not have the complete comfort and self-confidence as ordinary people .

Lee Cheong-jun, your Heaven, Migration, leprosy sufferers, settle down, "So-rok-do" island, Hometown