Abstract A personal pilgrimage" is the debut novel of the senior British playwright Rachel Joyce。 The novel mainly tells about Harold who receives a letter from his friend who has caught cancer and then travels a long journey。 This paper mainly describes Harold's ups and downs of spiritual pilgrimage, and tries to show the idea of love loss and return 。Not only does this paper discuss love from the character of the hero's self salvation and return , but also from encountering unexpected things in the journey 。 This paper analyzes the pilgrimage of the ordinary ,and wants modern people to wake up and return to themselves, to their heart and forget the trouble of struggling, adhering all the way 。The paper, to a certain extent, criticizes the social status: being impetuous and self losing 。Pilgrimage is faith and love, making it more powerful。 94858

Keywords: pilgrimage; pain; love; recovery

摘要《一个人的朝圣》英国资深剧作家蕾秋·乔伊斯的小说处女作。故事主要叙述了退休的哈罗德收到一封患有癌症的老友的信之后长途跋涉的故事。本课题着重描写哈罗德心灵朝圣的起伏，并说明一个有关爱的失去与回归的理念。本文从主人公的性格变化和在旅程中遇到出乎意料的事情等来描述爱的自我救赎和爱的回归。本文想通过对平凡人朝圣的深度剖析来唤醒现代人回归自我，回归初心，忘掉庸俗的凡事，一路坚持。本文在一定程度上批判了社会现状：浮躁、失去自我。朝圣本就是一个信念，是爱，让信念更加强大。

毕业论文关键词： 朝圣； 痛苦； 爱；回归 

Contents

1。 Introduction 1

2。 Literature Review 3

3。The Journey about Loss and Recovery of Love 4

3。1 The journey about loss…4

3。2 The journey about love 5

3。3Analysis of Harold’s tragic lifestyle 6

3。4 Analysis of Harold’s multiple personality …。 7 

3。5 Value and Significance。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。 8

4。 Conclusion 9

Works Cited。10

1。 Introduction

Rachel Joyce is the author of the Sunday Times and international bestseller The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize and long-listed for the Man Booker Prize。 Her second novel, Perfect, was published in July 2013 to great critical acclaim。 She was awarded the Specsavers National Book Awards ‘New Writer of the Year’ in December 2012。 Rachel has also written A Faraway Smell of Lemon, a short story exclusive to ebook。

In addition to writing books, Rachel has also written over 20 original afternoon plays for BBC Radio 4, and major adaptations for the Classic Series, Woman’s Hour and also a TV drama adaptation for BBC2。 In 2007 she won the Tinniswood Award for best radio play。

Rachel moved to writing after a twenty-year career in theatre and television, performing leading roles for the RSC, the Royal National Theatre, The Royal Court, and Cheek by Jowl, winning a Time Out Best Actress award and the Sony Silver。论文网

Joyce first wrote the story of Harold Fry in the form of a short radio play, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4, with Anton Rogers, Anna Massey and Niamh Cusack。 She dedicated the play to her father, who was dying from cancer, and who did not live long enough to hear it。 The play was later developed into a full-length novel。

    Harold Fry, 65, has cut the lawn outside his home at Kingsbridge on the south coast of Devon when he receives a letter。 A colleague of twenty years ago, Queenie Hennessy, has cancer and is in a hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed。 The doctors say there is nothing more that can be done for her。 He writes her a feeble and brief note and goes to post it, has second thoughts, and walks to the next post box, and the next。 He phones the hospice from a call box and leaves a message。 He is coming and she should wait, stay alive while he makes the journey。 A girl at the petrol filling station where he stops for a snack says something that acts as a catalyst for his nascent project。 He tells her he is on foot, posting a letter to someone with cancer。 'If you have faith you can do anything’[4] she replies, but quickly disclaims any religious reference。 As he begins the walk which in 87 days will cover 627 miles, he reflects。 About his marriage, his former employment as a brewery representative, about his son David, from whom he is almost completely estranged。 From stopping places he sends postcards, to his wife Maureen, to Queenie, and to the unnamed girl at the filling station who gave him inspiration for his journey。 Maureen, although anxious about him, for a long time doesn't think of driving to provide help。 Much later, when he has reached Yorkshire she drives up to see him。 She thinks of joining his pilgrimage, but when he invites her she refuses, saying "It was selfish of me to ask you to give up your walk。 Forgive me, Harold", to which replies, "I’m the one who needs forgiveness"。 Harold also realises that his journey to Queenie Hennesy is also a way for him to resolve issues from his past and to listen to the problems of others, such as a "silver-haired gentleman" whom he meets in a cafe early in his journey, or a middle-aged woman with cuts on her wrists。 He remembers how when he was twelve his mother 'walked out', and is aware that he is repeating her action。 When he was sixteen his father 'showed him the door'。 Later he went mad。 Six miles south of Stroud,he phones the hospice and is told that the stay, cure, or miracle is working。 His decision to walk appears vindicated。 He finds a cast-off sleeping bag and carries it with another bag, looking now every bit a gentleman of the road。 Faced with a shrunken bank balance he starts to sleep out。 In Cheltenham he gives away his guidebook and posts home his debit card and other items。 In the renunciation is the wonder of the impossible。 South of Coventry he is joined by a young man, Mick, who remarks, "What you’re doing is a pilgrimage for the twenty-first century。 It's awesome。 Yours is the kind of story people want to hear"。 Mick, it appears, works for the Coventry Telegraph, and Harold's story of modern pilgrimage was soon everywhere, including Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4。 Before long they are joined by countless others from all walks of life。 They do not use paid accommodation, always sleeping out or finding garden sheds。 There are disagreements, thefts, and soon Harold is thinking, "if only these people would go。 Would find something else to believe in"(220)。 He decides to backtrack, which has the effect of throwing off the fellow-travellers who proceed directly to the Berwick destination。 In the last stages of his walk Harold becomes badly disorientated, wanders around west of Berwick, sending home postcards from places like Kelso。 But when he at last reaches the hospice where Queenie has been waiting, he decides not to go in, and the reader is told, by means of a confessional letter to the girl at the filling station, of another motive for the walk。 His son David, unemployed after Cambridge and addicted to drink and drugs, committed suicide in the garden shed, where he was discovered by the father with whom he barely ever communicated, and whose life is now a protracted mourning。 The same letter pulges that when he and Queenie were working as colleagues she had taken the blame for a misdemeanour committed by Harold。 "I let her take the blame"。 Finally, Harold changes his mind and goes to the sick room to find Queenie unable to speak and at the point of death。 Maureen reaches him in Berwick, and he tells her that Queenie is beyond hope, beyond speech, and had been so since he set out。 He however is able to say things to Maureen that were previously unspoken, about memories of David, of their earlier life, his own mother。 They are reconciled before the waves breaking on the beach。 Together they visit the hospice where Queenie has died and learned that she died at peace。 When a young nun invites them to stay for evening mass they decline。 Later, they head to the waterfront and reminisce on how they first met and they laugh for the first time in years。