[01] Yong Jiang, School of Foreign Languages, Yancheng Teachers University, Yancheng, China.

Pressed by his wife and the atmosphere of his wife, Harold started his on-foot journey to go to see a friend, which gave himself a chance to have a look back upon himself, upon the relationship between his son and him, between his wife and him. The more he looked back and the more people he met in his journey, the more he thought about himself and the more faults he found about himself; and the more he got to know about friendship, love and responsibility. In this way, he achieved his redemption in three levels: cognition, behaviour and spirit. Cognitively, he achieved the identification of being a husband not to lead an estranged a life with his wife; a man to get in touch with old friends and society and a father to do a lot for son. Such a cognitive redemption was demonstrated through his change in behaviour from passivity to volunteering in the pilgrim, in the team activity, in the brave recalling of his growing-up and past. Based on such change, he realized his spiritual redemption: a fresh look at himself and the society: No one is to live in the shadow of the past but to reconcile with it for a normal and peaceful live as the life destination.

Pilgrim, Journey, Redemption

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