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Application of the Hero's Journey Framework in Popular Fantasy Novels for Children: Increasing Reading Moivation and Self-Regulation in Elementary Schools

This presentation considers popular fantasy novels for children in the context of Campbell’s hero’s journey framework of a narrative. The specific purpose of this analysis is to discover and understand factors that contribute to the popularity and reading motivation of fantasy novels with children as targeted audience/recipients of such stories. In previous work we have considered the content of popular fantasy novels focusing on developmental fears, frustrations and their resolution through fantasies as most prominent content that drives reading motivation, popularity and consequently commercial success of children fantasy stories. In this analysis, we focus on the characters and the storyline framework. Campbell’s hero’s journey framework will be considered as storyline pattern that can be found in various popular fantasy novels for children. Its use will be demonstrated in the most popular and commercially successful Harry Potter novel as an exemplar of this publishing niche targeting children and young adults audience. The results of the content analysis indicate that characters and the storyline of the most popular fantasy novels for children follow closely stages, archetypical characters and their relations described in Campbell’s hero’s journey framework of narrative indicating important predictor of popularity of such stories. Children will be more motivated to read stories that follow such framework, and that can increase their self- regulation in gaining reading competence.

popular fantasy novels for children; Hero’s journey; Harry Potter

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