| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 兒童文學研究所 === 97 === The subjects about war could be found in the most of the teenage novels. The teenage novels which are based on the background of the World War Two, especially, not only can conform to the Taiwanese emotional perception but also can receive positive responses from Taiwanese people much more easily. After making a comprehesive analysis of the war-related books published in Taiwan, I discover that only Senoh Kappa`s novel, A Boy Called H: A Childhood In Wartime Japan, has the ability to vividly reconstruct the life of the past in an fictionalized autobiography, to earnestly reveal how the author really felt about war, and to truely function as both a witness to history and an inspiration to literature.
This research is aimed to observe background of the war times in the novel, A Boy Called H: A Childhood In Wartime Japan. Back then, Japan were enthusiastically putting the militarism and imperialism into practice, started to impose censorship on the press and strictly controlled people`s speech and action. Senoh Kappa discussed absurdity and injustice about the World War Two cleverly through the eyes of a young boy as well as according to his own life experience. Although he did not directly point out the invaders` faults, he still brought up alternative cultural criticism through the process of refreshing his memory for war.
As compared with other autobiographical novels, Senoh Kappa redefined the autobiography by telling his own stories based on the memories shared simultaneously with other people in the World War Two. Therefore, Senoh Kappa`s novel, A Boy Called H, is associated with the issues concerning his life as well as the world.
In the wartime, the challenges the boy H in the novel received was so difficult. Apart from taking care of interpersonal conflicts, the boy H also had to face fear, selfishness, constraint situations. Meantime, he was in a dilemma of weighing the national and personal intrests or in a struggle between helping people and helping himself. As a result, the novel totally conveys human spiritual confusion and agony. With unlimited creation, tenacity and willpower, the boy H survived the war. Therefore, Readers surely would acquire some wisdom of solving life problems after reading the Senoh Kappa`s novel.
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