A Research on the Creation of Picture Book Discussing the Viewpoint of Life from the Culture Images of Yami’s Clansmanin Orchid Island

• Main Authors: Cheng,Ren-Kai, 鄭仁愷
• Other Authors: Chan,Yu-Yan
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/n6xb86

碩士 === 臺中技術學院 === 商業設計系碩士班 === 99 === “The extermination of heroic adventure is not to exaggerate the hero role,” said Joseph Campbell (1986), the mythology master, when he mentioned to those heroic behaviors. Based on the above statement, people always tend to look for shortcuts so that they rarely understand the true essence of life and care about social issues behind his truthful life. The fact also gave birth to this creativity study. This study conceived the idea of integrating the characteristics of the local culture in western literature perspective. As a result, this work was adapted from “The Old Man and the Sea”-the masterpiece of Ernest Miller Hemingway- to connect to the Yami, who are characteristic of their “marine cluture”. The background and conception of “The Old Man and the Sea” came from Hemingway’s personality- resolute, steadfast, brave to take a risk, and plain with life and death. Compared with the Yumi in Orchid Island, both they possess the obvious heroic characteristics; besides, their similar growth environments for drill turned into the main spirits of this work in order to strengthen the characteristics of the aborigines. We adopted field investigation, history research, and textual analysis to support the picture book afterward. The practical purposes and research values of this picture book are listed as below: (a) this book took life view as its main idea and connected the Yumi’s traditional fishing groups to their marine cultural images, which was included in this book’s picture design; (b) the Yumis’ mythical worship about “the ancestors of totem” and their folk views about “evil spirits, no merit spirits” were adopted as the root of our role creatures; (c) as for the pictures’ arrangement, the time and space conversion as well as those objects’ metaphor connections were used in this study; besides, by tracing back to the 1940s’ historical atmosphere in Orchid Island with children’s imagination, the drawing conveyance mode was applied in the situation of this book; (d) field investigations were made practically in Orchid Island to throw a sprat to catch a whale with this picture book and to promote the life education behind the local primary culture.