Author(s)

Yuxuan Jiang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ College of International Studies, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518061, China

Corresponding Author

ABSTRACT

British author Rachel Joyce's debut novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, focuses on the spiritual and psychological dilemmas of the elderly, attempting to summon their spiritual recovery by way of a pilgrimage. Around this theme, the novel outlines the family relationship of the main character Harold in the form of interpolation and explores the possibility of his re-growth. This essay draws out Harold's past, present and future from Plato's three questions of life, and based on them, tentatively analyses the process and results of the re-growth and metamorphosis of the elderly.

KEYWORDS

CITE THIS PAPER

Yuxuan Jiang, Dilemmas and Possibilities of Re-Growth of the Elderly: An Analysis of the Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry from the Perspective of Initiation Story. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2023) Vol. 6: 33-36. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.060306.

REFERENCES

[1] Marcus M. (1960). What is an initiation story? The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 19(2), 221-228.
[2] Xiuming X. (2006). A Review of 20th Century Bildungsroman Studies. Modern Literary Magazine (6):35-38.
[3] Lei H. (2017). The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: The Double Redemption of Walking and Waiting. Journal of Lanzhou Institute of Education (8): 9-10.
[4] Joyce R. (2012). The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. New York: Random House.
[5] Liqiang X. (2006). Exploring the Narrative Technique and Aesthetic Implications of Run-Away Discourse. Chongqing Social Sciences (11):36-40.

Sponsors, Associates, and Links

• Journal of Language Testing & Assessment
  
  
• Information and Knowledge Management
  
  
• Military and Armament Science
  
  
• Media and Communication Research
  
  
• Journal of Human Movement Science
  
  
• Art and Performance Letters
  
  
• Lecture Notes on History
  
  
• Philosophy Journal
  
  
• Science of Law Journal
  
  
• Journal of Political Science Research
  
  
• Journal of Sociology and Ethnology
  
  
• Advances in Broadcasting