KHACHATUR ABOVYAN’S TEXTBOOK “THE STARTPOINT OF EDUCATION...” AS A READING BOOK OF CHILDRE’S WORKS

Abstract

The great part of Khachatur Abovyan’s children’s literature is inserted in the textbook
“The Startpoint of Education...” in which the short stories that have precenting and entertaining
roles, besides being seperate works, are also carrying peculiar messages addressed to children:
periodically repeated bad endings, children’s death because of not adhering to parents, cruel
description of the death’s scene and the mourning and sorrow of the parents are becoming the
signs of precenting in the semiotic system of the textbook that by regularly repeated sequence
teach the baby readers not to imitate those actions and to adhere to parents. The last work of
the book - “Games of Children...” is a dramatic one and is notable for its interesting narrative
structure: the hero presents asynchronous story of the events of his life synthesizing the actions
referring to various times into one moment of narration. The perceptive prisma of the narrator
is also noteworthy: he percieves and reproduces the events through his senses by “feeling” the
surrounding world and himself due to hearing, sight, touch, taste and smell.