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Key Words: child; time; childhood; images; McEwan
摘要儿童意象一直贯穿整篇小说。在《时间中的孩子》中，麦克尤恩以儿童意象作为整个小说的引线，连结主人公一个又一个的遭遇。本文分析每个意象，利用意象来诠释小说所表达的深层次的寓意，通过仔细阅读本文，主要探讨儿童意象对人生的影响，从而点出本文的主题：童年时刻的重要性。
本文通过对小说中每个人物的分析，可以看出，成长对于每个人都是一个缓慢而且难以愈合的康复过程。对于小说主人公斯蒂芬来说，在寻找孩子过程中产生的各种情绪来自于了他与生俱来的性格。然而这些性格直接或者间接导致了主人公的悲剧。斯蒂芬的遭遇其实就是其成长过程。至于另外一个主人公查尔斯，他的不幸从童年就开始，虽然壮年时事业成功，但是最终还是被整个社会所迫，选择了死亡。这些无一不是指向重要的一点：童年对于每个人来说都是十分重要的。童年的经历直接影响了一个人的未来。
论文分成优尔个部分。第一部分介绍作者的《时间中的孩子》已经作者的成就和其他的作品。第二部分为文献综述，主要介绍其他关于《时间中的孩子》的学术论文。第三章主要阐述小说中正常儿童的特点及影响，并且结合当时的社会状况来揭露社会现实，从来点出论文主题，童年的重要性。文章的第三部分主要诠释小说两个主人公，也就是“异化”了的儿童意象。通过分析两位人物的悲剧来进一步阐释论文的主旨。此外，从小说中的两个成人主人公出发，分析异化了的意象对成人产生的影响。第五部分主要阐述了童年这一主题的现实意义。论文的第优尔部分主要是总结全文，升华主旨，再一次强调童年的重要性。
毕业论文关键词：孩子，时间，童年，成长，意象，麦克尤恩
CONCENTS
Acknowledgmentsi
Abstractii
摘要.iii
1 Introduction.1
2 Literature Review4
3 Interpretation of the Positive Normal Children Images in The Child in the
Time.6
3.1 The Image of Purity and Its Influence on Kate . 6
3.2 The Image of kindness and Its Influence on Ruth. 7
3.3 The Image of Simplicity and Its Influence on Kate, Ruth and the Beggar Girl 8
4 Description of the Negative Alienated Children Images in The Child in Time.9
4.1 The Image of Loneliness and Its Influence on Kate9
4.2 The Image of Fear and Its Influence on Ruth10
4.3 The Image of Frustration and Its Influence on Kate, Ruth and the Beggar girl11
5 Practical Significance of Childhood in The Child in Time.14
5.1 Practical Significance of Childhood Introspected from Kate, Ruth and the Beggar Girl.14
5.2 Practical Significance of Childhood Introspected from Charles15
6 Conclusion....16
Bibliography.18
1 Introduction
Ian McEwan was born on 21 June 1948 in Aldershot, England. He studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970. He received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia. McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites; the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and the Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999. He has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction numerous times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998. His novel Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003), and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004). He was awarded a CBE in 2000. In 2006, he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Saturday, and his novel On Chesil Beach was named Galaxy Book of the Year at the 2008 British Book Awards. McEwan has been named the Reader's Digest Author of the Year for 2008, the 2010 Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award, and in 2011 was awarded the Jerusalem Prize. McEwan lives in London. His most recent novel is The Children Act.