childlike trust that the poet, with more experience of the world, knows to be unfounded: the poem, in fact, is a protest against the harm that society causes its children by exploiting them for labor of this kind. In each case the dramatic irony arises from the poet's knowing more or seeing more than the child does, but in each case also the boy's ignorance testifies to his good heart and likable
childlike trust that the poet, with more experience of the world, knows to be unfounded: the poem, in fact, is a protest against the harm that society causes its children by exploiting them for labor of this kind. In each case the dramatic irony arises from the poet's knowing more or seeing more than the child does, but in each case also the boy's ignorance testifies to his good heart and likable
Child
Disability of Hee-chun
Adolescent daughter
Psychological problem of
daughter
Educational problem
Living seperately
Parental/Family
Disability of Parents
Low education level of Parents
Low care level for daily life
Unhealthy Father
Social/
environmental
Small house
Job: Physical Labor,
Low income
Working Mom (34 Year-old)
Hotel Manager
(She has 3 year-old child)
Atmoshere ㅠ
Tired Father (50 Year-old)
Taxi Driver
Wife : part-time job
(He has Daughter ; 이대 Student
and Son ; highschool student)
Money !
Ⅰ. Introducing case
①Economic problems,
Father has physical disability. He cannot work, so the family had no income. The family is very poor and life is very difficult.
②Health problems,
Father’s health is not good and Residential environment is also very poor.
③Educational issue,
Mother is Vietnamese, can not teach language to their children. and Cult