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This article looked at the meaning of gender in the stories of “The Enemy Born As My Child”, and discussed excessive alertness and overidentification reflected in the narrative flow. It was embodied in the Oral Folktale with vigilance, fear, and overidentification of the child, and such the meaning of gender was related to the role of the parent in the work or the sex of the subject. These issues concretely reveal the concerns and fears of dealing with children from the perspective of “parents”. And these are the responsibilities and duties that our society imposed on fathers and mothers. And among the “The Enemy Born As My Child”, there was also a story about breaking out of the role of parents that this society demands. <Spider son who Mother's milk sucking> shows the way of another narrative. This story is a verbal story that considers motherhood as a woman's instinct and examines the problem of Oppressed Motherhood, which forced the mercy and sacrifice of a noble mother, and allows the Hate Emotion of children. Through the literary device of “The Enemy Born As My Child”, we were able to explore the primitive emotions of human beings and the liberation of its natural nature, which hell of us as a guilty guilt by expressing the primal emotions of human existence that civilized society does not allow. It can be said that it is the literary imagination of the oral story that leads to escape from.

Oral Folktales “The Enemy Born As A Child”, Oral Folktale <Spider son who Mother's milk sucking>, Meaning of Gender in Oral Folktales, Oppressed Motherhood, Hate to Children, Emotional healing