Decentralization in children’s stories: The case study of Amal Nasser’s “Archifia”

Archifia" is a story written is by Amal Nasser, a young contemporary Lebanese writer and storyteller.An exciting and eventful story, it combines fantasy and reality to help children to analyze situations and events (far from superficiality) and learn logical thinking in order to achieve their goals.Decentralization is one of the most widely used techniques used by children's literature writers to establish a creative relationship with their potential audience.The objective of this study is to address the deep structure of decentralization in the story under discussion as a vital and creative narrative element.It also explores the development of the relationship between children audience and the author using the content analysis method.This study utilizes an interpretive approach to answer its research questions.The findings of this research show that the effect of decentralization is sometimes different and expanding, defocusing the audience from the narrative structure.It also creates expectations for the reader in the process of reading, keeping them waiting for their prediction to realize.This research also argues that Amal Nasser uses interconnected decentralizing techniques and advances the narrative flow of the story in an adventurous, intertwined, and exciting way.Therefore, the audience's focus fluctuates between centralization and decentralization.This research has concluded that the author creates a state of complex ambiguity by using various techniques such as metamorphosis, narrator intervention, and repetition of questions.This ambiguity does not confuse the audience, but arouses their curiosity.It encourages them to actively engage with the text and by negating the audience's expectations of a traditional linear narrative, the reader is transformed from a passive recipient into an active participant.Decentralization not only brings about the possibility of the shift of point of view and simultaneous narration of events to present reality from different angles but also underpins the content of the text and gives greater clarity and value to its meaning.