A Study Of Kyung-Sook Shin’s Please Look After Mom As A Story Of Manipulative Sob Sister Melodrama

Abstract

South Korea’s first woman novelist, Kyung-sook Shin’s first novel, Please Look After Mom, won her the Man Asian Literary Prize. This story has multiple narrators like a son, daughter, husband and mother. The narrator of each section portrays their role and relationship with the central character, the mother, So-nyo. The tradition and cultures of Korea are well pictured when the characters discuss the incidents with the mother. This family-bound novel deals with missing a mother, a dear soul and a symbol of sacrifice. The significance of precious things is not valued when they are nearby. The members united to confer on the various ways to find their lost mother. This paper analyses Please Look After Mom as a story of manipulative sob sister melodrama.