A Study of Komako's process of growing from immaturity to maturity as seen in Yasunary Kawabata's Snow Country

Horazon, Jufensya Enggel (2005) A Study of Komako's process of growing from immaturity to maturity as seen in Yasunary Kawabata's Snow Country. Bachelor thesis, Petra Christian University.

Abstract

This thesis is about Komako?s process of growth from an immature to mature woman in Yasunari Kawabata?s Snow Country. The thesis writer chooses the topic because she is interested in the way Komako?s character, who is at first first self centered, emotionally unstable, and also incapable of facing problem and conquering them, but at the end of the story, she becomes a mature woman. The analysis is about the way Komako reaches her maturity through a process that can be found in the problems and conflicts that she faces in life. The scope of this thesis is the ways Komako finds her maturity and the analysis is limited only to the main female character, Komako. The thesis writer uses literary approach and employs as tools the theories of characterization and conflict. As the thesis writer?s concerns are on psychological matters, she needs also the psychological concepts of immaturity and maturity to support the analysis. From the analysis, the thesis writer concludes that Komako has grown up from an immature to mature woman after experiencing and solving some problems and conflicts. The thesis writer finally finds out that the process happening in Komako?s life is hard and not easy. However, to become a mature is a must to anyone who wants to live fully and happily.

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