The Reflection of the Modernity Components in the Works of Mohammad Reza Shams

Modernism, as a great movement, led to a great evolution in the field of art and literature,. Shams is one of the writers who intends to acquaint the children and adolescents of the society with the realities of the modern world; so, this author expresses the components of the new era for this group in narrative form. The importance of the present study is to acquaint the audience with the different style of Mohammad Reza Shams, which is in accordance with the modernist atmosphere and is appropriate to the changing children's tastes. The present study investigates the prominent semantic components of modernity, including critical thinking, alienation, elitism and defamiliarization by descriptive- analytical , " Shams criticizes Injustice of society, corruption in bureaucracy, patriarchy, environmental crisis and children with irresponsible parents and intends to acquaint the audience with the trend of current world, hence he exposes the bitter realities of society objectively by critical perspective, so children and adolescents get acquainted with the contradictions of the present society by reading Shams stories.On the other hand, the present life of people in the society is accompanied by alienation, that Shams displays this component in the stories of " in the form of loneliness and death, identity crisis and anachronism.In the story of,Shams deals with the contradiction between the elite class and the middle class by an elitism approach, so in this narrative, the elite tries to complete the mission by superhero ideology and independently, and finally, in the stories of the author by applying the anarchist component, uses characters who are different from their peers, so they think of performing affairs and goals independently by audacity in searching.