A Study of Alienation Components in Children's and Young Adult's Fiction

Alienation is one of the major issues in modern world which many philosophers have concentrated on. In this study, this issue is discussed in children's and young adult's fiction. First, the alienation components are determined and then they are followed in children's and young adult's fiction. For data collection the documentary method and for data analysis, deductive and inductive content analysis suggested by may ring (2000) have been used. Analyzing six text shows that the frequency of alienation components are more in young adult's fiction than the children's fiction. The alienation trends found in these works are: 1) moving from individualism to an extreme socialism and 2) moving from socialism to an extreme individualism. Both trends are seen in young adult's fictions while in children's fictions just the first one is seen.