The Objective of literature education is to enhance the sensibility and awareness of the literary work. Further it aims to cultivate the self who is positively engage to the literary culture which is made through the production and reception of literary work. But the reality of literature education doesn`t content with the method and the practice. This monograph starts with the premise that literature education encourages the student to accepting the reality of life and heightening the quality of life. Through the basis of this premise, this monograph presents one way in imprinting the reality of life in literature education. Specially, the goal of literature education has to intent the formation of ethnic subject. For the purpose of this objective, it criticizes on literature education in aspects of relations with ethnic reality. And then, it designs the curriculum, discusses what is to be done in today`s literature education. This monograph is started from consciousness of crisis that members in korean nation is not to take hopeful view of life`s reality. In front of this reality, what the Literature and literature education is to do. One of answers in this question is that Literature and literature education can change the awareness of reality and the mate of life.