Kim Yu-jong’s “The white rabbit” and Park Won-so’s “Mother’s hitching post” were written in different historical backgrounds; “The white rabbit” has a setting of Japanese colonial period and “Mother’s hitching post” has a setting of the Korean war. However, the two stories express one common theme, which is the pain of Koreans. In his story, “The white rabbit”, Kim Yu-jong describes the pain of Koreans who felt powerless due to their loss of nationality under Japan’s colonization. In Park Won-so’s story “Mother’s hitching post”, she portrays the pain of Koreans who had confusion of national identity and trauma of losing family regarding the division of the country.
Kim Yu-jong wrote his stories in the 1930s when Korea was colonized by Japan. During the colonial period, Japan substantially proceeded colonial predatory behavior and destroyed the former social structure of Korea by advocating capitalism. Moreover, Japan forced Korean to speak in Japanese and even forced them to use Japanese names. Kim Yu-jong’s “The white rabbit” reflects emasculated …show more content…
In the story, ‘Mother’ saw her son getting gunshots on his leg and dying in front of her eyes during the Korean War. (pg.326) It became a trauma, and made her see hallucinations when she had leg surgery and saw her swollen leg. It is affirmative that losing family is one of the most tragic and unforgettable pains. The author likened the pain to the ‘hitching post’, which is tied up with the ‘mother’, in the title of the story to say that the pain from the Korean War is not yet released. This story ends with the sentence “Mother is still fighting” (pg.328). This sentence doesn’t mean that the ‘mother’ is fighting with her injury, but the author tried to say people who got the pain from the war is still
Kim Yu-jong wrote his stories in the 1930s when Korea was colonized by Japan. During the colonial period, Japan substantially proceeded colonial predatory behavior and destroyed the former social structure of Korea by advocating capitalism. Moreover, Japan forced Korean to speak in Japanese and even forced them to use Japanese names. Kim Yu-jong’s “The white rabbit” reflects emasculated …show more content…
In the story, ‘Mother’ saw her son getting gunshots on his leg and dying in front of her eyes during the Korean War. (pg.326) It became a trauma, and made her see hallucinations when she had leg surgery and saw her swollen leg. It is affirmative that losing family is one of the most tragic and unforgettable pains. The author likened the pain to the ‘hitching post’, which is tied up with the ‘mother’, in the title of the story to say that the pain from the Korean War is not yet released. This story ends with the sentence “Mother is still fighting” (pg.328). This sentence doesn’t mean that the ‘mother’ is fighting with her injury, but the author tried to say people who got the pain from the war is still