동화 『강아지똥』의 그림책으로의 변용에 따른 의미 변화 고찰

Abstract

This paper is to written to explore each difference through analyzing text from various angles like as ‘epic structure’, ‘character’, ‘theme’ and to confirm how the meaning and value of the original work by its difference are changed, after finding the problem that the evaluation about Doggy Poo as the core of the Korean children culture until now is applied without distinction of the original children’s story and the picture book. In case of ‘epic structure’, this paper confirms that the stereoscopic and dramatic factors of the original work are mostly disappeared in the picture book. That is, the main situation of the introduction is changed, ‘winter’ of a suggestive meaning is not expressed until the middle of the book and the scene ‘a starlit night’ is edited out. Also the crucial junction of the story, the ‘hibernation’ of Doggy Poo is omitted and characters do not affect the personality changes of Doggy Poo. In terms of ‘character’, this paper examines some factors; Doggy Poo continues to maintain the emotional and depressed personality in the picture book, while Doggy Poo in the original work shows the development of outgoing and active personality. ‘Clod’, which is closely identified with Doggy Poo and leaves the life index for it, does not have the status as the special being unlike the original work. The dramatic effect is diminishing by attenuating negative personalities of ‘sparrow’ and ‘mommy hen’. Moreover, while the ‘flower’ for Doggy Poo in the original work is the same with ‘star’ and the combination with dandelion is made by the earnest demand each other, the personality of dandelion as the helper of accomplishing the dream of Doggy Poo in the original work is completely transformed in the picture book because the meaning of the star in the picture book disappears and the dandelion asks for being manure to Doggy Poo unilaterally. In case of ‘theme’, in the original work, the key point of the story is that the Doggy Poo, the trivial existence in the world, accomplishes the dream of being a ‘star’ through the progress of maturity by combination with dandelion, the ‘low’ existence, as well. On the other hand, this paper, in the picture book, grasped that the act of Doggy Poo to be the manure has only the meaning of ‘self-sacrifice’ because ‘flower’ becomes irrelevant to ‘star’ and the dandelion, not Doggy Poo, becomes the subject to bloom. Compared with the previous studies, the significant meaning of this paper is the first one which confines the object of study to the original children’s story and the picture book, and then compares and analyses each text intensively. Another meaning is that it pinpoints how the primary meaning of the original work is changed in the picture book and what is the problem, through the detailed comparison.