Concept of Alienation in Young Adult Fiction

This article is intended to trace out the elements of alienation in four fictional works written for the adolescents. Documentary method and deductive and inductive content analysis، as suggested by Mayring (2000)، have been respectively used for data collection and data analysis. The alienation trends found in the analyzed works are: 1) moving from individualism to an extreme socialism and 2) moving from socialism to an extreme individualism. Both trends are active in young adult fiction while just the first one is traceable in children\''s fiction.