Application of Descriptive Elements During the Narrative Structures in “Al-Alem Naaqes-an Vahid” and “Qanimat” Novels

The two stories “Al-Alem Naaqes-an Vahid” by Mayslun Hadi and “Qanimat” by Sadegh Karamiyar are among the contemporary stories of Iraq and Iran in the field of war literature that their authors in their novels in an artistic ways to transfer of their intended purposes and themes to the audience, using descriptive tools and expressing philosophical and human themes about death, life and war. The present study uses a descriptive-analytical method based on the American School of Comparative Literature, which deals with the aesthetic dimension, and with the aim of discovering the functions of description in drawing the decoration of the aforementioned stories, a comparative study of the function of this narrative pattern in the structure of these stories, (Character, time, place), findings show that since the story of “Al-Alem Naaqes-an Vahid” revolves around only one specific event, its descriptive aspect overcomes its narrative aspect. In the story of “Qanimat”, it has made its narrative aspect prevail over its descriptive aspect. The description in the story of Mayslun Hadi with cognitive, explanatory and interpretive functions, realism, aesthetics and symbolism of the events of the story, but in the story of “Qanimat”, often the descriptions in the story have a realistic and cognitive functions.