Theme Of The Early Works Of Ian McEwan Growth

Ian McEwan (Ian McEwan,1948-), the most influential contemporaryBritish writers. Since he published his first works-short stories "first love lastrites"in1975, which caused a sensation. After that, with the advent of the first novel,he continued his career. Affecting also grew. Today, he has already published22novels. Although only55years old, he has been considered the dean of contemporaryBritish literary world-class writer.Throughout McEwan’s work, I found that all his works are about childrens’growing up, most of these children are special-they are all abandoned the family,are social outsiders, and everyone is similar to one individual alone. These kids"premature" mixed with tender, sensitive in revealing fragile, but all hateful andpathetic. Because of its cold and obscure subject of the work, so McEwan sufferedevaluation also varies, even in a period of time to obtain a "terrorist Ian" in the title.By reading his works I found that the growth of his previous works subject line is notonly outstanding, but also presents a significant flow. Therefore, this thesis, the authormainly through McEwan early three representative works to analyze the growth of itspen theme by theme to interpret McEwan grow, so that more people know him andlike him. There are four of their previous works, the paper select one of the three,these works are:"first love last rites","Cement Garden" and "love strangers."In this thesis, I use a method that a text read by a large number of text evidence,the argument based on the text reading, and at the same time, the fifth chapter hasborrowed the theory of narrative analysis McEwan novel unique artistic features.These methods are all topics of their growth has played a positive role.This thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter, the first of IanMcEwan and His make a detailed introduction, through a comparative analysis oftheir study abroad and research status, and its fiction translation and propagationrelated presentations, including novels around period divided. Second, third andfourth chapters, respectively, early representative work "first love last rites","CementGarden" and "love strangers" separate chapters, detailed analysis. The hero in thenovel process of growth as the main line, from childhood to grow growing growth opportunities astray and then carefully study clearly pointed out that unlike traditionalpen McEwan Bildungsroman growth characteristics. Finally, from a narrative point ofview, the use of narrative theory analysis of Maxwell novels of the art features,pointing to the use of its unique narrative theme for the growing significance ofallowing readers to the maestro have a more thorough understanding.