Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 中國文學系碩士在職專班 === 99 === The purpose of this research is to explore the idea of Life Care from the prose written by Mr. Lin, Wen-yi. The researcher places its scope on Lin’s revealed works and begins an investigation on Lin’s entire prose. The implications of Life Care are throughout Lin’s works. Thus, the research is categorized by themes of care. The corroborative evidence is seized and analyzed from related sociology studies, newspaper news which recorded affiliated instances back then. The aim of this work has two folds: one is to unroll Mr. Lin’s consciousness in terms of concerning life tribulation. Another one is to affirm the extend and depth of Life Care during his forty-year career. The approach applied in this research is from the masses, society, to history and politics. That is expanding from a small scope to a large one. In order to explore each individual aspect of his works, the researcher penetrates and stretches each single layer of the works.
On account of concerning the masses’ lives, Mr. Lin meticulously portrays difficult working condition and situation of the middle and lower class in Taiwanese society. He was also anxious about Taiwanese children’s living condition and the hardship of the poor and weak. For constantly paying attention to the transferring of the society, he also perceived that the culture of the society has increasingly tended towards pompous. The traditional culture is to be deprived while the society is pursuing economic development. The natural environment which people rely on for living has been destroyed. He was apprehensive the overall development of Taiwan, thus he composed a Taiwanese history book to express the importance of the root and source of Taiwan. Mr. Lin sometimes loudly voiced and sometimes calmly described and recorded the injustice events. He was exclaiming that in this evil era, Taiwanese people are necessary to come out for safeguarding the truth. This would be the true spirit of democracy.
Following Mr. Lin’s exemplary performance, the life of Mr. Lin, as an distinguished writer in the literary world, indicates: a writer’s work is not only on compositing articles , and literature is also not limited in a niche group. As a writer, it is very possible to extend concerns to every single aspects of the society.
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