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  1 - Examining the metaphor of place in the novels "I Turn off the Lights" by Roya Pirzad and 'imārat ya҆qubian' (Yacoubian Building) by Alā Aswani
  Azam Bibak Ataollah Koopal Zarrin Taj Parhizkar
  Metaphor is a linguistic property that is not specific to the aesthetics of language, rather, it is nowadays extended to all aspects of the life and thought and can create abstract concepts from objective sources and embody them. The place in the story is the bed of eve More

  Metaphor is a linguistic property that is not specific to the aesthetics of language, rather, it is nowadays extended to all aspects of the life and thought and can create abstract concepts from objective sources and embody them. The place in the story is the bed of events formation of events and due to its close relationships with the fictional characters, it is possible to reach the analysis of the novel from the analysis of the meaning of the place. In the following research, the metaphor of place in the novels "I turn off the lights" and 'imārat ya҆qubian' (Yacoubian Building) are analyzed descriptively and its most important outcome is that: in the novel "I turn off the lights", the house and its various components are metaphors for the states of the main character of the story, which in different situations express his loneliness, emotional needs, outbursts, and suppressed emotions. In the novel Yaqoubiyan Building, the building and its residents are metaphors for the Egyptian society and its different strata, which are facing many problems such as poverty, abuse of power and women, bribery, and homosexuality, and the author portraits different places in the formation of characters in the story and their evolution. Manuscript profile