Nursel Duruel'in Öykülerinde Çocukluk ve Çocuk Kahramanlar

Nursel Duruel who grows philanthropy in the center of her short stories discuss people’s resistance, weaknesses and strengths. The author focusing on what they have lost, reminds the integrity of childhood purity. In the grown-up world, no beauty, friendship and brotherhood exists. A child who touches a corn rose understands all the reality but when it reaches to the grown-up world, it loses its purity and identity and get stuck in narrow lives. They have to live a life around the question of “Who am I?”. Both domestic migration and emigration cause deterioration mostly in child heroes’ lives. With migration, families break down, perceptions change and conflicts of generations occur. In this identification process in which the people who determines the ways, rules and truths are not clear, childhood is supposed to be a safe haven. Duruel, who pays attention to childhood susceptibility in her short stories, tells sociological authenticity without didactics. In the present study, turning back to childhood and struggles of child heroes in their lives in Nursel Duruel’ short stories will be investigated. The effect of childish point of view on fiction in some of her stories will also be examined. Moreover, the fact that is included in the current study is that the author, who aims to come up with eligible short stories, attempts to make sense of the grown-up world.