A narrative analysis of “the transition to childhood” in children's literatureA case study of Farhad Hassanzadeh’s “Call Me Ziba” novel

The wide range of childhood and experiences from “the transition to childhood” are reproduced in child stories as one of the forms of cultural texts that have evolved along with the evolution of the concept of childhood. The main purpose of this article is to explore how to narrate the transition to childhood in the novel “Call Me Ziba”. The main premise of this research is that the novel is formed as a media content to the understanding audience from values and norms of society. In the present article, an attempt is made to answer the main question, how to narrate “the transition to childhood” descriptive-analytical manner. In this research, this novel is analyzed for its structural and content features with a narrative approach and a combination of two patterns, Génette and Barthes. In addition to exploring the narrative structure, connotation in this novel. results show; The transition from childhood in this novel is narrated in such a way that the child must quickly go through the stage of childhood and become an active member of society within the framework of social structures, but the child Looking for deconstruct. Various aspects of self-reflection, which are prominent features of individualism, are recounted in this novel. The narrative of the independent world of childhood in the form of hidden languages, special environments for children, creates a different image of childhood as a special group.