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A Study on Boys' Novel by Sohn, Chang Seob-Centering around 'Fighting Child' and 'Blind Puppy'

Jang Young Mi 1

1한양여자대학

ABSTRACT

Korean artists make various aspects that war and division could cause after Korean Civil War as diverse themes. Sohn, Chang Seob who was a representative artist in 1950s illuminated society and individual, reproducing postwar world through diverse person group. He straightened severe self-consciousness up by being alienated from society and showed the aspect of relation between society and individual. He offered profound insight as to how individual can acquire true freedom in society, redognizing society and individual with close relation, without dividing them. Like this, Sohn, Chang Seob reproduces his view of world as it is in boys' novel also. That is, he traces the world where we live, describing severe place to fight for having more. However, as he assumes children as main readers, we can observe that he presented hope to them carefully. For example, he presents hope by sending warm eye to weak persons. In boys' novel, persons didn't lose warm eye even in hard life, and it made one recognize human existence through human evil. It made children understand individual, society and world, showing life to reflect actuality as it is. In conclusion, it can be said that boys' novel by Sohn, Chang Seob has artist's own special eye, playing the role of one trunk of realism.

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