Descubriendo a los personajes en la novela El país de Manuelito, análisis de sus características narratológicas, valores y símbolos en la obra infantil y juvenil, del escritor ecuatoriano Alfonso Barrera Valverde

Abstract

In the present investigation, it was discovered to personal in the novel The country of Manuelito, analyzing their narratological characteristics, values and symbols in the child and youth work, Ecuadorian writer Alfonso Barrera Valverde, had as main objective to analyze key and constituent elements the characterization of the characters in the novel, being a response to the need for an analysis model of the construction of characters. By analyzing the characters of the selected corpus narratological methodology he was applied to know how characters are constructed in the work and its characteristic features, plus we argue about the theoretical basis of axiology and semiotics and literary disciplines of study. The analysis model proposed has the following structure: title, theme, plot, main, secondary, tertiary characters, values and symbols; from the denotation and connotation; enabling the reader to discover literary understanding character traits, defaults and signs. This work considered a classic of children's literature whose main component is to exalt the cultural identity of our country.