Two Types of Egress Based on Initiation: On The Pearl, “Flight,” and The Forgotten Village
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John Steinbeck, a Nobel-Literature laureate, is said to have had the strong impulse to get away to nature when young. His novels are distinctive of the description of egress from the society. For example, the characters of The Pearl, “Flight,” and The Forgotten Village leave their home to mountains and another city. Also, the egress is based on their initiation into a process of maturity and divided into two types—autobiographical and dramatic transition story. This paper aims to distinguish their characteristics by analyzing the texts of the three works in detail. Especially, it is possible that the egress of The Pearl is explained with both the styles depending on who is the hero of the story between Kino and the personified pearl. Besides, the takeoff of “Flight” is interpreted as the dramatic transition type, while that of The Forgotten Village as autographical one. Meanwhile, during more than half a century, the initiation story has been classified by Mordecai Marcus's idea according to its power as tentative, uncompleted, and decisive. However, the older typology is contingent on forms, not on contents. The newer one can reveal the speed of initiation, the tone and mood, the narrator's position, the clarity of a turning point, the role of supporting characters, the necessity of supplementary devices, the extent of the individual's conflict with the society, family relationship, the range of affecting factors, symbolic effect, the difference between what the hero knows and what s/he does not yet know, and the relationship between the internal and external part the protagonist has. All in all, two types of egress based on initiation are intended to contribute to developing the research on initiation stories.
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John Steinbeck, a Nobel-Literature laureate, is said to have had the strong impulse to get away to nature when young. His novels are distinctive of the description of egress from the society. For example, the characters of The Pearl, “Flight,” and The Forgotten Village leave their home to mountains and another city. Also, the egress is based on their initiation into a process of maturity and divided into two types—autobiographical and dramatic transition story. This paper aims to distinguish their characteristics by analyzing the texts of the three works in detail. Especially, it is possible that the egress of The Pearl is explained with both the styles depending on who is the hero of the story between Kino and the personified pearl. Besides, the takeoff of “Flight” is interpreted as the dramatic transition type, while that of The Forgotten Village as autographical one. Meanwhile, during more than half a century, the initiation story has been classified by Mordecai Marcus's idea according to its power as tentative, uncompleted, and decisive. However, the older typology is contingent on forms, not on contents. The newer one can reveal the speed of initiation, the tone and mood, the narrator's position, the clarity of a turning point, the role of supporting characters, the necessity of supplementary devices, the extent of the individual's conflict with the society, family relationship, the range of affecting factors, symbolic effect, the difference between what the hero knows and what s/he does not yet know, and the relationship between the internal and external part the protagonist has. All in all, two types of egress based on initiation are intended to contribute to developing the research on initiation stories.
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