The Narrative Functions of Conflict in Three Short Stories of the Imposed War

The short story of holy defense in the previous decade has been progressed a lot in the area of application of the new elements and techniques of story writing. By analyzing the special elements of the corpus of these stories, their artistic aspect could be revealed. For studying techniques in these short stories, the elements of conflict were analyzed which was one of the most dependent elements on the Plot. In this research, first of all Robert McKee’s pattern about three layers of conflict was presented, then three short stories of holy defense named Haaniye written by M.Normohamad zadeh, Darya gholee by Z.Moshtagh and Wake in hell written by D.Amiriyan from series of short stories of the national story writing contest named YOSEF (1385) were surveyed based on the three common characteristics of the narrative function of conflict which were physical, emotional and time factors to show the techniques applied in these stories. The finding of this research revealed that the writer of the abovementioned stories used the suspension techniques in three levels of inter-personal, intrapersonal and extra-personal conflict to show the initial imbalance in the narrative of the story. Therefore, it was obvious that these writers by applying the three levels of conflict as well as dramatic expression of the story described the details and changes of the characters.