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학위논문(석사)--서울대학교 대학원 :사범대학 국어교육과(국어교육전공),2019. 8. 김종철. ; In this study, the identity patterns of adolescent protagonists in young adult novels are analyzed by focusing on the specific growth narrative containing an adolescent identity that resembles that of contemporary adolescents. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the contents of education that triggers positive identity formation in adolescence. Specifically, the identity formation narrative in young adult novels, identity crises of contemporary adolescents, and positive identity as the ultimate goal of identity formation are analyzed in this study. This thesis defines the young adult novel, a genre mainly projecting adolescent readers, as a novel that describes the experiences of adolescents from the adolescent protagonist's perspective. Therefore, the content of the young adult novel includes adolescents' experiences from the perspective of the adolescent protagonist. Regarding content, the young adult novel shows how an identity crisis in adolescence proceeds to social suture through the identity formation process. Regarding form, the identity formation process of the adolescent protagonist is represented by the relationship between the protagonist and opponents or assistants. In addition, identity is a unique characteristic of the individual that is also related to one's response to the environment. Individuals form their identities by organizing their own experiences at the psychosocial level. Therefore, to understand identity among contemporary adolescents, it is necessary to analyze their psychosocial level and the way they organize their experiences. At this level, adolescents have developmental tasks, including adapting to their own characteristics (e.g., maturity of their bodies), developing value orientations that are independent from those of the older generation, and planning their careers according to their value orientations and future realities. The study on the self–perceptions of high school students indicated that adolescents were experiencing negative self-consciousness, the loss of initiative by the older generation, and helplessness resulting from academic stress. This article includes a proposed theoretical framework for Erik Erikson's view of identity for analyzing adolescent identity crises. The three categories of issues that constitute the identity of an adolescent are the issue of self-consciousness," the "issue of intergenerational initiative," and the "issue of career planning." These categories form the basis for classifications of identity formation patterns in young adult novels (Chapter III). Meta–analyses of biographies of Gandhi and Luther reconstructed by Erikson are included in this study, and the ego-expansion experience that forms positive identity—including self–transcendence, consciousness of generation succession, and an understanding of the relationship between the world and the ego—is developed. A finding of the study is that ego-expansion is embedded in the positive identity of the adolescent protagonist presented at the end of the young adult novel. In Chapter III, the patterns of identity formation among adolescent protagonists in nine young adult novels are analyzed, based on the characteristics of the identity formation narrative and the structure of identity formation in adolescence. Section 1 explores the development and constitution of the identity formation narrative, inferring the characteristics of each narrative according to three identity issues. The issue of self-consciousness deepens into an issue-oriented conflict, and it is resolved with the narrative connection between the narrative of self-consciousness and the narrative of other-consciousness. The issue of intergenerational initiative deepens into a balance-destructive conflict, and it is resolved with the embedded narrative of the life history of the opponent, a member of the older generation. The adolescent protagonist comes to understand the opponent and embraces him/her. The issue of career planning deepens into a structure-oriented conflict that questions the exclusiveness of contemporary society. Therefore, the narrative of the career plan extends to insight regarding social structure and intersects with the narrative depicting an alternative society. Thus, this study analyzes the aspects of identity formation in young adult novels based on characteristics of identity categories extracted from the development and constitution of the narrative. Characteristics of adolescent protagonists, opponents, and assistants are also examined in this thesis. According to the analysis, the adolescent protagonist has psychological characteristics related to desires of the self. Based on the definition of an identity crisis as a conflict between inner desires, the adolescent protagonist's psychology during an identity crisis were investigated. One protagonist experiencing a crisis of self–consciousness displayed avoidance
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