A Study of Story Elements in Rewriting of Kalileh VA Demneh for Adolescents

Regeneration and simplification of ancient literary texts to make them understandable to different age groups including adolescents is very important. Adolescents need to be familiar with their culture, customs, national figures and their pas literary assets. One of these ancient and valuable literary texts is the story collection of Kelil VA demneh. The book is full of moral and social teachings which show the readers how to live. This study, first, focuses on the importance of its moral and social inspiration and then it is compared to its regenerated and simplified version to examine whether the elements and principles in terms of story (plot, character and characterization, theme, point of view and atmosphere) are kept as they are in the original one. The findings indicate that the simplified version seems to enjoy more integrity to the original one. The findings also show that although the themes in both versions seem to be alike, the way they are presented to the readers are different.