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leaned on Aynar's gray mane. Taşçaynar (Taş Çiğner) was strong. His fur was thick, soft and warm. The silent, proud Taşçaynar also perceived the feelings of the she-wolf, instinctively understood that she would be the mother, and was excited. With her ears pricked up, her large square head raised, she seemed to see something vague, like a shadow, with the still gaze of her black pupils deeply sunk into their sockets.

Based on the quote given, the wolf motif is at the center of Chingiz Aitmatov's novel. This important motif in the "Members of the She-wolf" is the protagonist of the novel.

has been. The motif in question did not only take place in Turkish epics, but also appeared in oral productions in world literatures. On the one hand, there is the universality of using such a motif, on the other hand, there is the nationalization of the motif by adding characteristic features. In this context, the wolf motif in the Turkish nation became a gray wolf by gaining a national identity. Halide Edip was also one of those who worked on the wolf motif nationally, and the wolf motif in the author is the protagonist who comes after the narrator hero, although it is an important element in the novel.

Bozkurt also appears as a motif in "Members of the Female Wolf", with the names Akbar and Taşçaynar.

While taking it, it appears anonymously with the dream motif in Halide Edip's story:

"Until a year ago, no one knew these gray-maned wolves in these mountains. After their arrival here, they continued to stay away, not being seen much. Previously, they wandered here and there, staying in a neutral zone, beyond the territory dominated by mostly local wolves.

These two wolves, which the author describes as "wolves with gray mane", embodied both national and universal characteristics in the novel. The wolf that Halide Edip describes in her story is wounded and has a fresh appearance from the war. This wolf has national and universal characteristics, as in Aitmatov's novel. Its nationality comes from the wolf's representation of the Turkish nation, and its universality comes from its strength and combativeness.

In Aitmatov's novel, the she-wolf Akbar is introduced as "she valued freedom and independence above all else". The value represented here is the inability to live in captivity. In "The Wolf Climbing the Mountain", although the wolf is depicted as injured, this wolf is mentioned with the community he is in. The role bestowed on the wolf in the story was to be bait and prey to keep the peace. The wolf community starts to read their oath of vengeance by going to the mountains on this role assigned to them. The wolves' oath of vengeance is proof that they will fight those who have made this judgment upon them. If we have to say, the value that is wanted to be given with the wolf motif in Halide Edip is compatible with the value that is wanted to be given through Aytmatov's female wolf.

Looking at the backdrop of Aytmatov and Halide Edip's use of wolf motifs, it would be appropriate to establish the following sentences: A wolf, especially the steppe, which symbolizes the Turks, was preferred as a motif because he could not express his longing for the independence of the Kyrgyz country, which was ruled by the Soviet administration, for some reasons. expressed it. In Turkish epics and tales, the wolf is depicted as a noble and mighty animal. Thus, it turns out that the gray wolf is included in the novel as a direct reflection of the Turkish gray wolf myth. In Halide Edip, on the other hand, the environment in which the wolf motif is handled is an environment that coincides with the time of the First World War. The wounded wolf depicted is the Turkish nation that left the war wounded. The elephant with the peace horn represents America and other animals in the jungle represent the countries of the world. The elephant's decision to use the wolf pack as bait in order to maintain the peace order is a reference to the attacks to be made on the Turkish nation. As we have just said, the Turkish nation did not applaud the persecution inflicted upon it, but struggled with the oppressors.

In the "members" of the "She-wolf", the wolves, Abdias and Hz. The stories of Jesus show parallelism with each other. In fact, the main character of this novel is Abdias, and the main plot of the novel is Abdias' struggle with sinners. There is a parallelism between the story of the wolves and the situation that the author wants to tell in "The Wolf Climbing the Mountain". The main character of the story

the narrator is the hero and the main plot of the story is the narration of the wolf tale with the dream motif of the hero.

The story of Halide Edip Adıvar, one of the first novelists of the republican era, named "The Wolf Climbing the Mountain", and the wolf motif in the works of Cengiz Aytmatov, one of the important novelists of Kyrgyz literature, are similar to the way they are used. When the similarities they show are put aside, the differences will also emerge. Adıvar and Aytmatov dealt with the wolf motif with its national and universal dimensions. Aytmatov, in his work, expresses the longing of the Kyrgyz people for independence; Adıvar, on the other hand, expressed the situation of the Turkish nation and its longing for salvation through the wolf motif.