An analysis of the characteristics of Persian best-selling youth fictions published between 2000 and 2010

Arab Shaibani, Zakia; Mohammadi, Mahdi; Falsafin, Sokaineh; Khavidaki, Samaneh

An analysis of the characteristics of Persian best-selling youth fictions published between 2000 and 2010

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Zakia Arab Shaibani ¹

Mahdi Mohammadi ²

Sokaineh Falsafin ³

Samaneh Khavidaki ⁴

¹ Master of Science in Information and Knowledge Science, University of Qom, Qom, Iran

² Department of KIS, University of Qom, Qom, Iran.

³ PhD student in Information Science and Epistemology, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Science and Research, Tehran, Iran

⁴ PhD student in Information Science and Epistemology, Al-Zahra University (S), Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Purpose: To review the content and the characters of the parsonage in Persian youth best–selling novels between the 2000-2010s.
Methodology: Quantitative content analysis was carried out on 14 novels for the youth reprinted more than ten times. Titles were chosen from the list prepared by the Book House.
Findings: Most characters faced similar problems, such as poverty, physical illness or mental illnesses, suicide, death of the beloved. Most fictions have happy endings. In about 40% cases the main character survived, in 22% is forced to leave family life, 11% died at the end of the story, and 11% suffered from mental illness.
Originality: encouraging young readers to read and adopt positive approach in dealing with problems have been as a positive point, whereas leaving the characters in sorrow and in a grim atmosphere is far from t from reality have been identified as a negative point. Also, characters of novels were those who were far from the reality of today’s society such as social, economic and cultural situation.

Keywords

Best

selling fictions/ Youth Fictions/Persian Language