The study of the counter-anticipatory decentralization techniques in the children’s stories of Yaghoub Al-Sharoni

Decentralization refers to the mental ability of a child with which he or she jumps from one concept to another.  This often breaks one’s focus, but it promotes mental actions, encourages cognition and strengthens creativity. The phenomenon is manifested by certain techniques in children’s literature. These techniques are examined at the levels of text and image. Of these two, the image is of great importance. Some child-created pictures not only reflect decentralization but also break the anticipation of the audience. Thus, as a child sees such pictures, he or she is surprised and gets out of normal conditions, which causes the decentralization of his mind. In the present study, efforts are made to review the counter-anticipatory decentralization techniques in ten selected stories by Yaghoub Al-Sharoni (1931-2017), an Egyptian contemporary novelist. The stories are dealt with through a descriptive-analytic method and based on statistical data. The research addresses the manner of using unexpected images. The most important visual techniques found in the stories are the change of background, building up fantasies and introduction of geometry in the images.