The Young Father Figure In The Novel In The New Period Literature Shape And Cultural Implication

Along with the sudden rise of the juvenile’s novel, people’s attention has turned to the images of adults in children’s literature. The image of father, which possesses combined characteristics of traditional ethic culture and realistic emotional factor, is inevitably connected with the juvenile in terms of literature. In the new age, the portraying type on the image of father in literature diversifies. The image of father, as a duel identity of both tradition and reality, advances with the times during the heritage of the juvenile novel. Authors of the children’s literature have carried out multiple artist expression towards the image of father. They express the presentation of father’s image from different points of view, reflect the relationship between father and children in a verified way, and describe father’s narration in a multivariant measure basing on narratology. Instead of being a single symbol, the image of father in the children’s literature is of rich cultural connotation. It serves the expression of intensive ideology content concealed in the juvenile’s novel. The conception of examining the image of father is sober and profound in the juvenile’s novel. It veraciously conveys the aesthetic fashion of the children’s literature, making the emotion of paternal love reach aesthetic harmony. Particularly, the image of father functions as a reflection of the views on children. Although the image of father in the juvenile’s novel diversifies in aesthetic experience in cultural context of different ages or under different subject matter, the views of children foremost is what should be persisted. Being an adult characteristic created by adult writers, the image of father, possessing historic and realistic value, brings ruminate to people. The image of father is in connection with the author’s personal experience, mentation, status quo, views on children, and the common sense of responsibility shared by people of this age. When asked the question of how to be a father, the answer we explore is in line with the truth which views of children foremost is chasing after. The innovation of the thesis is that the adult image of father is taken as the analysis object to open the door to the juvenile novel in new age. The thesis profoundly excavates the reason of harmonious co-existence of adult and children from the perspective of father. The image of father with its traditional and realistic factors, in this thesis, is also adopted to widen the common horizon of children and adult in children’s literature, and to strengthen the interactive ties between authors, works, and readers, in a bid to pursue the value of persisting views on children and the future of children’s literature.