Narrative elements analysis of the selected Amharic children’s stories

Abstract

This study is about narrative analysis of selected Amharic children’s stories on narrative elements. It aimedat evaluating the utilization of narrative elements on Amharic children’s stories. It literary examines the selected Amharic children’s stories based on narrative elements. The researcher analyzed each stories based on intrinsic narrative elements that are; plot, character, point of view, setting and theme. The data were collected from the published Amharic children’s stories by using qualitative method. The fundamental assumption of new criticism is implemented to analyze the selected stories. Analyzing these books (እንቅልፍለምኔ ‘ENKLF LEMNE’ (1908) by B.G Mahteme Slase,ተረቶቻችሁ’TERETOCHACH’ (1952) by educational curriculum and books reception of the main direcsiyon, ትንሹአንበሳ ‘TNSHU ANBESA’(2008) by Alem Eshetu andጦጢትጉድሆነች ‘TOTIT GUD HONECH’ (2010) by Tikkl Gena) observed that they have a number of things in common. There is a plot which in most books has beginning, middle and an end. However it is not recognizable because it is not full of action, defined climax and satisfying denouement. The imaginative quality of the idea of each is not fresh and original. They all have a theme but the theme is not developed through the action and do not conform, though in simple form, to the requirements of any good children story.The characters are seen objectively and the authors tried to picture their lives in their natural surroundings. The settings and situations of the stories are not clearly mentioned. Almost all the story books are made for a lesson or moral. They are not purely made for enjoyment. The authors should have to write basing on reasons like the authors of adult fictions. They have to have a good reason for writing their goal does not have to be instructing