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@article{166627,
        author = {Dr. VIDHYAVATHI PRASATH},
        title = {STRUGGLE OF TRANSITION FROM PAST TO FUTURE IN KAZUO ISHIGURO’S A PALE VIEW OF HILLS},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2024},
        volume = {11},
        number = {2},
        pages = {2784-2791},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=166627},
        abstract = {Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Japan but had physically lost his roots as the result of his family’s migration to Britain when he was just five years old. However he could not escape his mental connection towards his origin. Living almost sixty three years in another country, Ishiguro could not completely disconnect from his roots. Thus as the title of his first novel A Pale View of Hills suggests he still has the pale memory of his country particularly the after effects of war. The psychological trauma that he had experienced personally might have resulted in the publication of his first novel which can be classified very well as a psychological novel. Though the traces of history are evidently exhibited it is still strikingly a psychological novel than to be classified as a historical novel. The post-nuclear bomb Nagasaki is just used as a backdrop setting to heighten the psychological disturbance of its characters. It gives the psychological sufferings of the three mothers, Etsuko-San Sachiko-San and Fujiwara in American occupied Tokyo. It shows how their past life had made their present life miserable and yet how these women try to resist all their setbacks for a futuristic hope. Thus the present paper is an attempt to find out the struggles of the female characters in the novel and how they make their survival possible from just enduring their suffering to endeavouring an alternate survival.},
        keywords = {Kazuu Ishiguro, struggle to survive, psychological approach, narrative memory, A Pale View of Hills.},
        month = {December},
        }