Searching for Ideal Perfection (A Comparative study of Samad Behrangi's The Little Black Fish and Richard Bach s Jonathan Livingston Seagull)

Samad Behrangi is one of the first Iranian authors who wrote stories for children and his The Little Black Fish is one of the great masterpieces of children and young adult literature. In this story the little fish is bored by both a barren life in a restricted area and narrow mindedness and vanity of its fellow creatures so it decides to go toward the unbounded environment and gain knowledge and new experiences. Therefore it ignores all the existing traditions and taboos and enters upon a risky road. Behrangi's The Little Black Fish and Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull have some similarities in content meaning and structure (layout point of view narratology and symbolism) In this study these two stories are comparatively discussed through a descriptive analysis and by finding the similar and different points of the mentioned stories aims to show the mental cultural and artistic common points of two authors from two different languages.