the structure of plot

Plot is the most distinctive element in the structure of a story. Unlike the character and the theme, whereas plot doesn’t have any evident and independent identity, it is necessarily to present throughout the story as an element which unifies the fragmented parts into an integrated entity. This research aims at comparing the plot in the authored and translated stories for B and C age levels from the viewpoint of Maria Nikolajeva to evaluate the success of these stories in attracting the audience, and finally to discuss the effective literary factors in this achievement. To this end, we collected the data through reading and eliciting the features of plots in 50 best-seller children Persian stories published during the years 1385-95. After obtaining the numerical values of the variables in the plots, the qualitative content analysis was fulfilled. The results revealed that the translated story books have been more successful in attracting the audience due to their relevance to the taste and needs of children and consequently containing more fascinating elements for them.

The study of narratives، as the greatest gift of structuralism is considered as one of the most important aspects of the modern literary theory. Following Prop، structuralists attempted to present an overall model in creating different narrative in the 20th century. In this field، A. J. Greimas—the most popular narrative theorist—went beyond the limited studies of Prop، and presented his action model and his narrative chains. By doing so، he attempted to reach to the general principles of the narratives language and to analyze each narrative based on a specific narrative structure. He created his action model in a way that it can be adaptable which other narratives. Therefore، the aim of the present research is to study the narrative structure of Bahram and Gol-andam story، as a sample of the amatory and lyrical poems based on Greimas theory so we can analyze the structure of the original Plot using changes in statuses according to two-fold reciprocities، the narrative chains، and the action model of narratives. after analyzing the context، we concluded that Greimas''s action model in analyzing the narrative of lyric poems of Bahram and Gol-andam is approximately useful and plot of the story has a particular structure and narrative cohesion and is investigate from two viewpoints (two-fold reciprocities and syntactic rules) and from the action viewpoint، it includes two distinct action models with distinct actives which is rarely seen in other narratives.