War Orphens And The Exotic Images In Their Eyes

The Korean War is called 25 June War in South Korea and a forgotten war in America. It is an unforgettable memory and experience and it does not stop until now for the people in the Korean peninsula. The influence of the war for the children is much longer than adult, the hurt of it for children is much deeper than adult. The paper emphatically analyses war orphans image of the Korean War novels by Korean and American and exotic image of the Korean War. Exotic image is American image. On the one hand, it is image of savior, on the other hand, it presents image of devil. But for the Koreans, especially for the Korean children and war orphans, it does not mean only image problem, but negative effects for the children who have not mature thinking and value of right and wrong. It reveals the influence of image-building for different historical and cultural origins.The first chapter of the paper is introduction. It includes research status of the Korean War novels in international academy and purpose, importance, method of research.The second chapter is orphan image of Korean and American novels of the Korean War. The first section is the orphan image of Korean novels of the Korean War. It explains the war orphan image of the Korean War in Korean authors' mind. The war orphans have no homes to go because of war, they have to break the law in order to support a family. It is a group that is ignored and unconcerned by people. The second section is the orphan image of American novels of the Korean War. It explains the war orphan image of the Korean War in American authors' mind. It is a group that needed to be protected, but most of the orphans have eastern folly image that has bad habits.The third chapter is the exotic image in war orphans' mind. The first section is war orphans' mind about exotic image in the Korean War of Korean. Through the description of orphans in after-war novels《Xiao Li Jin》,《Gu Ji de Ye》,《Fu Lang Er》it states that though they get help form the U.S military, in their mind Americans have not only the image of savior to help them, but also the image of devil to destroy them. The second section is war orphans' mind about exotic image in the Korean War of American. Through the analysis of exotic image in orphans' mind in books of《I am the Clay》and《For the Love of Dying》. In this part, American image is presented as saviour, is completely deification in orphans' mind.Chapter four is social and cultural context of war orphans' background. Section one is generation of orphans. It will proclaim the war make family separation, the Korean children become homelessly orphans. At the same time, the war leaves painful memories and unhealthy psychological problems. Section two is western cultural context of west is better than east. a large number of American soldier land in the south Korea with the most raunch culture of American society. It has come as a big shock to Korean tradition culture and caused some social problems. Section three is social problems of the Korean War. Three Korean novels about the Korean War expose corruption of the U.S military base. It also describes lively orphans who are parasitic on the U.S military base.Chapter five is conclusion. Through analysis of the Korean orphan image from Korean and American authors, focus on influence that after American army is in the name of the international police force comes to the Korean, the negative effect on Korean people, especially for the orphans and the social problems with their growth.The thesis references to image study of comparative literature and lots of historical materials of the Korean War. It focuses on the war orphan image of the Korean War novels by Korea and America. It does research of the Korean orphan image itself and exotic image from the Korean orphan's mind. On the choice of material is based on different period's representatives of the Korean War by Korean and American works. This paper employs diachronic method, bases on intensive reading and ties up with history and context of culture when text is created.It is aimed to analyze the orphan image by some works and discuss question that how two nations observe the Korean War orphans. Supplying a gap in this field from history to present and future.