Abstract:
Today studies on tamil language and literature are being carried out on the basis of various research
methods. The comparative research method is one of the most important method and it is a scientific
approach used to compare literature in two or more languages and to classify their common features
and specialties. in the early days , researchers engaged in comparative studies have put forward some
ideas about the rules on how comparative studies could be based on their own experiences which
were then accepted by everyone as a theory of comparative research. parallel theory is one of such
theory is compare two or more literatures on the basis of their narrative, language, techniques, story
background and to identify their general and special characteristics. that way the purpose of this
article is to compare S. kadhigamanadhan’s “verum sotrukke vandhadhu” (short story) and Johanna
spyri’s “Heidy” (Novel) translation of P.B. Sivasubramaniyam. This article is based on an analytical
and comparative research methodologies with Heidy Novel and Verum sotrukke vandhadhu short
story as a primary data.