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In order to reveal women writing features on ocean, the research is focusing on marine appearance based on the literature written by women, and describing meaning of home in these articles; taking “A Taiwanese girl’s marine diary”, “Shore” and “Kuroshio current” for example. In chapter two, it’s going to express how Tseng, author of “A Taiwanese girl’s marine diary”, fulfilled her dream to live on ocean and took vessel as a home existing. Then we explore what the marine living experience was- the duration of Tseng taking ship, MOVER, with captain Paul- in order to explain the relationship among ship, ocean and author by concept of home. In the end of this chapter, we talk about how Tseng re-built a home after leaving her real home on land since author applied this method to link herself with ocean. In chapter three, we'll show the affection inside Tsai, author of “Shore”, to marine hometown through her writing of scene in childhood and her care to environment of marine village. In “Shore”, Tsai shaped male roles to be those who would fully realize the profound influence from fishing hometown after leaving home and then returning back; on the other hand, author also demonstrated the connection and the interaction between female roles and fishing hometown. In the chapter four, we discuss “Kuroshio current“ which was written by Chang, CEO of Kuroshio Ocean Education Foundation. By the tone of members from foundation, the book elaborated nowadays different situations of marine environment and showed depressed for human keeping destroying ocean. Chang continued to indicate that human raised whales and dolphins, and captured fish to benefit themselves but made extinction among marine creatures. Thus author advocated environmental care which could be the same with the family care among foundation members. In a conclusion, these women literary works above have their own trait. Tseng expanded her home from land to ocean by leaving and returning; Tsai created a form to return back home by writing fishing environment; Chang wrote for the goal to establish a foundation, and also reminded us that it’s same meaning to preserve ocean and environment as protect our home.
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