13. Poor little HANİFE...

We read the short story of Sevgi Soysal called "Hanife" which is mainly about a girl which was murdered under the name of honour killings. the story is fluent and don't bore the reader.there are some points that I'd like to mention about the story;

1. Gold Coin symbolizes;

• For Hasan, the easy way to use Hanife
• For Hanife, hope

2. Why did Hanife believed Hasan so quickly?

• Because she wasn't fed in means of love by her family and Hasan was the first person who "cares" about her.

3. Poplar Trees symbolizes,

• In Turkey, the graveyards are full of poplar trees because they believe that the noise of these trees soothes the souls of the dead.
• The shadow of the poplar covers and hides the dead body of Hanife from the public.
• In Turkish literature, poplar trees symbolizes death.

4. The flew of the headscarf symbolizes;

• The soul of Hanife flew.
• In religious beliefs headscarf is an important piece of clothe that every honourable woman should wear.But because Hanife isn't one one them, the scarf flew.
• If Hanife would be a "good" person, the headscarf wouldn't flew.

5. Stoning Hanife;

• Because they think she is evil and in Muslim religion, they tended to kills dishonourable woman by stoning.

6. Soysal translated Turkish slangs into English and that makes the story more real.



I want to thank all my friends who participate in discussion and spit out those really good analysis and who made the presentation.