Abstract
CHILD REALITY IN THE CONTEX OF THE CONCEPT OF VALUE IN SELCUK BARAN’S STORY “PORSELEN BEBEK”
In this study, the storybook by Selçuk Baran titled Porselen Bebek, whose audience is children unlike his previous plays, novels, and stories, is evaluated in the context of children's literature. Children's literature, which plays a significant role in the development and shaping of children's imagination, thinking, and emotions, requires many more characteristics along with this delicate aspect. In the context of certain basic concepts and values, it appeals to the spiritual world of children with its subject, theme, characters, point of view, and narrative. In this context, the story, which is included in the work that has the same title, Porselen Bebek, and that has traces of the manner and style that the author created through his literary identity and adult literature, addresses the children and human reality, the reflections of the conditions of being an entity which hears the voices of values during childhood along with the other characteristics determined. The story, which is shaped by the spiritual needs of the child and dramatization and also has fantastic elements, reveals one of the ways the children adopt to identify the world and humans which is different from the adults in terms of language and perception. In this study, the story by Selçuk Baran titled Porselen Bebek was examined in the context of the children's reality, the spiritual world the character is in; its perception of the human, family, the world, and the way it hears the actions and values.
Keywords
Children's literature, children's reality, Selçuk Baran, the concept of value, Porselen