Japanese Literature And Korean Literature: A Comparison Of Tanazaki And Hwang

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Term Paper Title	Japanese Literature And Korean Literature: A Comparison Of Tanazaki And Hwang
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Japanese Literature and Korean Literature:  A Comparison of Tanazaki and Hwang

     Concerns fastened to warfare and the ways in which it is experienced by society are elaborated upon both in "Fuel" by Hwang Sun-won and "Lieutenant Lookeast" by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki.  Both stories speak to the experiences of individuals, living in societies in transition, mediating upon the tensions produced within their changing social environments.  This essay will attempt to demonstrated how the different uses of images and narrative structure amplify both Japanese and Korean perspectives on social change.
     Both Hwang and Tanizaki treat issues of warfare and its affects on society in a different manner.   "Fuel" addresses the Korean experience with a focus on how war is impacted on a local level.  For example, "Fuel" describes a family in South Korea, afflicted by poverty stemming from the affects of the war.  Narrative is done through the voice of a child; and hence, his reality is rendered vivid, closer to the reader, while the other characters are distanced and feelings are not experienced with the same degree of intensity.  The story commences with a fragmented style; information is not given explicitly but rather it is conveyed in segments.  The beginning is rather starts abruptly and the transition to the second section of the story is as equally abrupt.   The story begins with the reader aware of an important event soon to transpire but s/he is given no context in which to place this event.  Instead, information is slowly revealed as the reader witnesses the attempt to steal trees from the forest.  For example, in the first few paragraphs, the mood is described in detail; however, the setting is not revealed until after the mood is established (Hwang1989: 78).  In Part two the setting is revealed immediately but the chapter begins once again at the threshold an intense moment, helping to reproduce the same effect as experienced in part one. By chapter three the mood changes once again; however, this time the reader is slowly lead into the story. In a sense, it could be argued that there exists, within the story, three climactic sequences:  The first and the second involving the tree thefts and the gang raids respectively; the third involving the quest to obtain peat.  Each event is thwarted by some mishap which disrupts all attempts to obtain "Fuel".  The first time it is an officer patrolling Soraden Peak (Hwang1989: 83); the second, by the capture of Ching-won by...

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