Character Development in Zakaria Tamer's Stories for Children: The Case Studyof " LemazaSakatAlnahr" and " QalatAlvardahlealSenunu"

Writing stories for young children is different from adults’ stories. The younger and less-experienced the audience of children’s stories, the more limited the usage of fiction elements. Thus, writing stories for children is difficult and requires a lot of thought. Character introduction and development through a story is an important element in writing any narrative because writer’s skill in better character development has a significant impact in absorptionofthe audience, especially for children. Zakarya Tamer is a famous and popular Syrian writer who has written many stories for children and adolescence such as “LemazaSakatAlnahr” and “QalatAlvardahlealSenunu”. In this paper, his method in building characters and character development is studied and evaluated with standards of character development in children stories. The resultsindicate that many of thecharacter development standards in children’s stories are met in Tamer’s stories.