Abstract
The personified storytelling of the protagonist Jonathan of Jonathan Livingston Seagull spreads out with its picture/photo images, which has a mystic metamorphosis motif while learning and developing through torture. Jonathan’s dialogue with his mother that seems to narrate the Kantian philosophy is about knowledge well-known with his question, “What can I know?” Jonathan’s philosophical flight is going to confront the existential situation that accelerates his conversion. Jonathan’s fable is an expression of free will to escape from a comfortable life. It is a narrative of adventure about a being deserted in the universe, and today in the early 21st century, it invokes us an ecological imagination of how to confront the extreme state of environmental crisis and how to overcome it. This novella that conveys a lesson of an adventure of selfhood, or contains a fable of adventurous seagulls can be read from new perspectives from the situation of an era. Its topic sentence as a proverb, “The gull sees farthest who flies highest.” has its Absolute Superlative whose deep structure we need to understand. Unlike its original English versions, only those of the Korean translation has its proverb with a picture/photo image, published by Munyechulpansa in 1973 and 1986 per se. In the Complete Korean Edition of 2015, the decorative sentence is finally excluded. This article involves a study on incongruities in its construction between the narrative and picture/photo images, and the rediscovery of Part 4 and its effect.
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