A morphological study of Ghassan Kanafani's novel " Return to Haifa" using Claude Bremond's framework

The study of literary works from a morphological viewpoint presents a general pattern for analyzing them. This is because morphology is the science which deals with the form and structure of a work and its influence on the concept of that work. Many scholars have tried to present a comprehensive method on the morphology of stories, such as Claude Bremond, a French linguist and narratologist. The novel ''Return to Haifa'' is one of the known works of Gassan kanafani, who is a Palestinian writer. In this study, the novel is explored and analyzed using Bremond’s method of morphology in three functions of possibility, process and outcome. As it has emerged; the author has created a coherent plot by bringing together different collocated sequences such as simple and compound, consequent, adhesive and conjunctive moods. The results of the research suggest that the Bremond pattern is practiced in this novel, and the writer has noticed narrative elements such as change of conditions, various sequences of order, personality types, giving the right of choice to the hero, and failure of the hero. All this has been done by using possibility, process and outcome.