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A Research on Hyeon Deok's "Father as a Butterfly Catcher"

Moon Young-Jin 1

1전북대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article is about the Hyeon deok’s narrative "Father as a butterfly catcher"( 나비를 잡는 아버지 ). Some conclusions of this article is as follows: "Father as a butterfly catcher" is a family assosiated narrative. Also, the narrative contains mentally reducted father and compassion about it. The narrative follows the rule of irony and epiphany(ironic epiphany). The root of the conflict is economic, but it switches under the narrative by the means of the conflict between father and son. This narrative is composed of a few chronotopes. Some of them is chronotope of the road, chronotope of encounter, and chronotope of threshold(which do not occur on this narrative; in fact which means running away from home). The protagonist of the narrative compromise about the current condition and understands father’s love. This Narrative shows a sympathy and the possibility of a solidarity.

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