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Sociological critique is a form of literary criticism that seeks to place literature in a broader social context. Analysis of the relationship between literature and society is the basis for the emergence of literary sociological critique and this approach focuses on the structure of literary influence and its relationship with society. The formative structuralist approach believes that collective thinking is the creator of the literary work; While the author organizes and coordinates collective consciousness and thinking and social issues are reflected by the author and his worldview in literary works. It is an objective view of the author's views and thoughts on the intellectual and cultural situation. In this study, by reflecting on the text of this novel, we intend to depict the social issues that the Kuwaiti tribal society faced in the twentieth century and show the importance of this novel in depicting the tribal system and revealing the social aspects hidden in it.. The results of the research show that the novel has tried to talk about the structure of the tribe and its issues in the context of the characters and to show the social structure of the tribe, which is based on various meanings.Also, the awareness created by some characters, such as Dakhil and Saleh, as the protagonist of the novel, was a reason to create a different perspective from the fixed reality of the tribe.

The archetype of the awakening of the hero involves his path toward perfection and dream of individuality with focus on some other archetypes. During the journey, the hero attains a profound understanding of himself and the ultimate meaning of life. The novel The Bamboo Stalk was written by the Kuwaiti writer Saud Alsanousi and is worth examining with a focus on the evolution of the protagonist. The current research aims to study the process of a character’s (Isa) evolution in The Bamboo Stalk, using the archetype of the hero’s journey and then answering the question ‘Which archetypes of a hero’s journey are found in this novel?’ The Bamboo Stalk has not been examined via the lens of archetypal criticism yet, and the present research seeks to analyze this work through the viewpoint of the hero’s journey archetype.

To expand Joseph Campbell’s ideas in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Carol S. Pearson and Hugh K. Marr, in a book entitled “My Graceful Life”, studied the hero’s journey plot, which is a pattern of the development of individuality. They believe that the character attains a deeper understanding of himself during this journey and eventually becomes aware of his talents and the intended meaning of life. Pierson proposes twelve archetypes and believes that, in each phase of human’s life, one of these archetypes dominates a person’s life. Overall, he classifies the mythical path of every individual into three different parts, each of which is associated with its own especial archetypes. Using these ideas and a descriptive-analytic approach, the current research explores the process of Isa’s personality evolution and development in the novel The Bamboo Stalk.

The research findings indicate that the plot of The Bamboo Stalk involves the hero’s journey. In this novel, the procedure and process of individuality development are highly visible through the archetypes. During the journey, Isa actually shifts from unconsciousness to self-consciousness. In the first phase, he faces numerous obstacles and problems to start the journey. He starts the journey as an innocent character, expecting others to provide him with the most ideal kind of life. Also, due to suffering too much pain and misery, he experiences the orphan archetype.Through this journey, Isa gets more and more experienced, dealing with numerous difficulties and experiencing the archetypes associated with this phase of the journey. As an annihilator, he causes too many troubles for his family. As an adventurer, he looks for the answers to his questions as well as his true identity on this journey. As a family-oriented person, he brings peace to them. In his childhood dreams, Kuwait was considered a heaven-like place, where he could make all his dreams come true. In contrast, this is where he goes through a hard time for several years because, despite having various properties, he did not feel at home there. Yet, as a result of all this hardship, his character and individuality are developed.Isa is a magician who finds his intended identity by changing his viewpoint. However, this identity does not depend on a specific nationality or religion. Isa is a wise man who switches between his motherland and fatherland as well as their different religions and languages. He finds the solution to this problem in the course of this story. After getting acquainted with various religions, he concludes that all of them are satisfactory enough. The dominant archetype lets him write his novel in Filipino language, despite having both Filipino as well as Kuwaiti identification cards. At the end of the story, he is an adult male who is the father of a kid in the same field where his grandfather grew up once. He names the kid after his father and the fatherland. His return to the place that he adores is a representation of clown archetype.

The study of the process of the evolution and development of Isa’s personality in the novel, The Bamboo Stalk, indicates that this process is generally consistent with the hero’s journey archetype. In this novel, the hero overcomes his personal and local boundaries; he dies as a person without identity, still searching for one. Yet, as a perfect human being who belongs to the whole world and cherishes every nation, he is reborn. His crucial mission is to return to his motherland with a new thought system to teach the lessons he had learned while living in Kuwait. In this way, he experiences all the archetypes associated with this perfection journey.

The Prisoner of Mirrors is the title of a novel by Saud Al-Sanousi, the Kuwaiti novelist, who began it with this sentence from the Indian Tagore (He who carries his lamp behind his back sees nothing but his shadow in front of him). With this phrase, the writer tries to express the content of the novel in a concise, philosophical sentence, and through it he touches the deepest meanings found in it. This novel is not just a romantic drama novel, but rather it appears through its details that it revolves around the search for the self, the discovery of a dispersed and lost identity, and the pursuit of happiness. chronotop plays an effective role in accelerating and renewing the course of the novel's events. It is a technique considered by many critics to be one of the most important narrative structures for understanding and visualizing events in the narrative construction. This study proceeded to its treatment and its various forms of manifestation and its implications through its descriptive and analytical approach. After presenting and analyzing the subject, the study concluded that the manifestations of the temporal structure in the novel are more temporal than spatial. Because the novel narrates the moral aspect of the story of the suffering of Abd al-Aziz, the protagonist of the novel, who lived a life of loneliness and pessimism. I also noticed that time within the novel is dominated by the retrieval mechanism more than the anticipation. Because your love for the events in the novel centers on the past. Finally, the aesthetic of the narrative structural structure complements the acceleration and slowdown of the narration and the summary, scene and pause that they contain, as these mechanisms, in their entirety, created an integrated tone that tells the story of a hero (abd al-aziz) suffering from loneliness and alienation and trying to recover himself and reveal his identity.

The Enneagram is one of the templates for personality recognition in modern psychology. The Enneagram typography has nine types of personality including reformist, helper, ambitious, individualist, thinker, cautious, extravagent, controlling, peaceful. By using these nine types, one can recognize every person's level of health through the three levels of the Enneagram. Saud al-Sanousi is a contemporary Arab writer one of whose most prominent novels is Saq al-Bamboo. It addresses the identity issue of East Asian migrant workers in Kuwait and presents their social and psychological crises alongside internal conflicts. Therefore, the novel is worth examining on the basis of Enneagram theory. This research uses a psychoanalytical and statistical method to explore the health levels of the characters of the novel based on the nine Enneagram personality type.. The results indicate that eleven characters have the average level of health, six are at a healthy level, and only one character is in unhealthy conditions. It was also found that Hind, with the frequency of 15 is at a healthy level, Issa with the frequency of 91 at a medium level, and helth and Mindoza with the frequency of 17 are the healthiest and most unpleasant characters of the novel based on the Enneagram theory. Statistically, most of the characters are from averagely to completely healthy.

Owing to its realistic expression of issues, a social novel is able to reflect the realities of society better than other genres. The novel "Mama Hessa's Mice" shows the Kuwaiti society issues realistically. Sectarianism is the central theme of the events in the story. Through the analytical descriptive method, this research describes the literary and social structures of this novel and its role in the reflection of the social realities. The social structure of the novel is composed of different groups, and the type of their interaction has led to sectarian behavior from insult to ridicule and violence. The misunderstanding of ideas, addressing superstitions and blind imitation are the causes of these behaviors in this novel. Mutual respect, acceptance of others, turning to true Islam, avoiding extremism and patriotism are the solutions to this problem. The literary structure of this novel helps to cultivate the theme through unbiased narration, different points of views, child narrators and intertextual relationships.

The literature of every society is an effective factor in reflecting social realities and correcting the weaknesses of that society. As a part of literature, the novel, and in particular socialist realism novels, can better convey its audience in acquiring an image similar to what they see and feel. The "Bamboo" is a social novel that is realistic in describing the Kuwaiti community. Therefore, in this research, the descriptive-analytical method has been tried to extract and review the most important social themes discussed in the book, such as welfare, class tension, race importance, class discriminative, social control, customs and the status of Asian workers. The novel represents a multifaceted community that contradicts some of its aspects with others. A Muslim community with values that Islam does not accept; the customs and traditions of this society are collectively meaningful, but within it there is a lot of class tension. In the end, the author tries to describe the facts from a different perspective (someone outside the community) to the audience to look at different issues and to present a solution to the situation by introducing the most indubitable Islamic principles and emphasizing the principle of tolerance.