청소년소설에 나타난 폭력과 아버지상의 상관관계 연구 - 2000년대 이후 출간 작품을 중심으로

Abstract

This studied about an effect of violence and aspects on main character under age in Korea young-adult novels after published in 2000. When the beginning of violence in young-adult novels is a family, in other words, father, it was revealed that identity of main character and growth were deeply affected from him. ‘Violence’ which is a main conflict of young-adult novels is not a simply material to maximize, affair, but it could be a steppingstone of ‘positive growth’ to adolescent readers. Mainly discussing about pieces of the award-winning novelists in young People’s Literature published after 2000, it studies how novels describe the ultimate goal of young-adult novels, ‘growth’ in correlation between violence and father and how adolescent characters build their identities. Especially effects of father on main character are as in the following after classifying aspects of fathers in the novels. First, negative father figure is the beginning of family violence and usually he usually uses physical violence. Second, positive father figure gives good effects on adolescent character. There are two cases that father is in the family or not, and this study gives an that father figure doesn’t exist but take a role of spiritual guide. Third, father figure changes from negative to positive. It is the most common in young-adult novels. In this case, adolescent character and father who represents adults have grown to solve conflicts. It is the most desirable way of representing theme in young-adult novels. Most young-adult novels describe the process adolescents characters try to overcome injuries of violence and heal by themselves. And it evokes that limitation of violence, negative material is not a fact to avoid but it takes a view of relationship between father and adolescent character and provides opportunities for growing to adolescence. And there is a necessity to examine effects of social violence on lives of adolescence such as violence in multicultural families, the disabled and violence against the elderly in young-adult novels which are published after 2000.