A Study of the Urban Environment and its Elements in Children and Adolescent's Stories

This essay's purpose is to study the aspect of the city and its characteristics in the children and adolescents’ stories in the 1360s. Therefore, the content of 335 stories for children and adolescents, which were written by 40 eminent writers and have been published for the first time in the 1360s, have been studied from quantitative and qualitative points of view. The results of this study prove that the city, as the principal environment in 195 stories and a part of the environment in other 21 stories (all in all 64 percent), is the first environment in the children and adolescents’ stories. The presented aspect of the city and its habitants has been limited to describe a number of determined elements and the life of special classes of the society (poor classes). So, most of the stories present the repeated stereotype places, environmental elements and limited personages. The authors ignore the life of other addressees, who are not few. This case has been under the influence of the political, economical and social atmosphere dominating the society in the 1360s and also the life of the authors and the tendency of a number of the writers to create realistic stories and also to defend the deprived classes of the society.