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.

12. Loving memories of university...

I LOVE YOU BENİM CANIM İRUMMMM!!!!


Well yes, in university we have to study more, at least I'm aware of that. but its kinda hard when you have so much fun friends such as HER:D

Our job is to find a balance between doing our responsibilities and having fun.Because after university we will be GROWN and i don't want to be an adult:S hatta i didn't want to grow any higher than 17 but life..:D

this life has to be offered good memories because although its very hard, a tiny thing would be enough for us to laugh...

11. READ MEEEE!!!!

sonja started a blog-contest prized by a secret box:D

i will write in my blog whenever i find space from hard workings of Sabanci :D

its kinda fun to express my ideas to a machine esspecially i know that the number of my readers are not much from the fingers of a hand:D

but i will continue to blog:D

MADE THE FORCE BE WİTH US!!!

10. Who wins the LOTTERY??

Money, money... every body needs some to survive.But what is the border of being money colic? People have an idea of "money buys everything" but thats ofcourse not true... Love or humanity cannot be bought.I dont know how i come to this point but my aim in this post to interrogate the text "The Lottery".

First of all the text is rich of characters.There are many of them with specific names.Because i will presentate this text, it confuses me a little to decide which ones are important to presentate.

The other issue that i want to get your attention is the sentences' structure. There are many wrong written words and also sentences don't start with capital letters.

I love the setting of the text which is June - i can assure you my birthday is in June too=) - and the weather is sunny and grasses are rich green.

The writer uses good vocab and i didn't know the meaning of some words like scold, fussing, and paraphernalia.

but to conclude it was an easy text to read so i recommend it to everyone.

9. Sps and Eng have similar topics to discuss!!!

Today at my Sps discussion class, we discussed the contrasts between racism and nationalism.My classmate told a sentence which was: "Lets kill all the Armenian people is a racist sentence." which is not true.Its a sentence which contains highly nationalist feelings.So its a fascist nationalist sentence.While the class were discussing it, i realized that we don't know the difference between those two concepts.


So at the end lecturer ended the discussion by giving a example like: "Lets kill all blacks, is a racist sentence." which was very true.


Because we both learn these concepts in Eng and Sps lets try not to confuse them in the next time!!!

8. Racism as a CRIME

Ellison tries to argue about racism of black people and whites.He uses very hard words that represents racism like the word "nigger".He also uses a language that we can say as slang to make it more real.
ı like the way writer metaphors the killing of the black to a party.there were many metaphors as well such as plane=she, fire=executor..
Black man describes as a tough big man who could resist all those flames.All his wish was to cut his throat to die immediately but the "hungry" whites wanted him to suffer.If its not a racism, then what else would be??
there is written that they have to kill the niggers to keep the others in place.By this sentence we can clearly see that whites act like blacks are not human as they are.

just this one sentence "every time i eat barbecue the black fingers of nigger would come to my mind." definitely summarizes the whole article i think.

7. Seminar Presentations

We formed our groups yesterday and today we studied about asking questions to the audience in order keep their attention alive while someone is presenting.Sonja gave us 3 methods to summarize a longgg text which are;
1- line by line
2- gap fill
3- eliminate, then show!

I found those very helpful and my group will most probably - definitely- use these in our real presentation; the novel!

She also showed us some example presentation's part about using Venn diagrams which will grab the audience's attention immediately.I know Simge has very useful knowledge about making different types of Venn diagrams=)

I hope the best presentation will be ours.
Good luck to all groups.