A STUDY ABOUT THE CONCEPT OF FRUSTRATION IN SHORT STORIES COLLECTIONS (TÜNELDEKI ÇOCUK) FOR THE AUTHOR SAIT FAIK ABASIYANIK
Sait Faik Abasıyanık is Considered one of the most known short story writers and novelists in Turkish literature. He was born in Istanbul 1906 and died when he was 47 in 1954. Throughout his short life, he wrote several books in several fields of literature. He was also known in the literary field by writing short stories. He is among the pioneers of modern Turkish story writers. The short stories collection (Tüneldeki Çocuk) or (the child in the Tunnel) is one of the most important books for Sait Faik Abasıyanık. The collection consists of nine short stories and eight dialogues that differ from each other. (The Child in the Tunnel) is one of this collection of stories and becomes the title for it. The subjects of these short stories are different from one story to the other. Most of these subjects based on grief and drama. The child plays the main character in most of these short stories that have been published after one year of his death. It is possible to express frustration as the grief result from the inability of a person to achieve his dreams in the future. The main aspect is to expect enjoy days full of hope in the future but once you fail in achieving what you hoped for or to achieved in a different way, this would cause grief and sadness for man and this grief can be expressed as frustration. In the beginning of the research paper, there is an abstract about the subject of the research paper. Then, there is a short summary about life of Sait Faik Abasıyanık and his literary personality and his literary career. It is followed by a section to explain the concept of frustration. The paper, then, deals with every tale in the collection (the child in the Tunnel) each one of them alone from other stories and gives a summary of the characteristics and features of frustration that appear in the collection
Keywords: Frustration, The Child in The Tunnel, Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Childhood.