A Study on Realated Aspects of Narrative Situation and Self-Reflection in Choi In-Hoon's Novels: Focusing on by Choi In-hoon

This thesis attempted to explain the narrative situation of Choi In-hoon’s short story can be said to be a novel that falls into the form of a return journey. In this case, the work focuses on internal changes or reflections before leaving the journey and after returning. And the process is conveyed in the narrative method. That is the main use of a narrative method called free indirect discourse, and shows the process of self-reflection to construct a new self. What the free indirect discourse method intends in is the effect manifested when the character’s thoughts and feelings are inserted into the narrator’s narration or when the narrator’s voice intervenes. This serves the function of allowing the reader to capture the process of how an individual’s inner self relates to the world. For example, free indirect discourse is creating an effect that allows now only symbolic signs such as the desert, trimming nails, and Jesus, but also unconsciousness such as dreams and hallucinations to operate as a mechanism for reflection. Choi In-hoon’s narrative style like this stems from his perception of reality, which tries to respond with thoughts or actions that develop inside the individual rather that directly intervening in reality. For this reason, the work of identifying self-reflection is related to understanding Choi in-hoon’s ideality as a reality with methods and customs.