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Literature is a richly resourced art, Lee.

The fact that it is such an art reveals that it is fed from a source called mythology. Mythology emerged as an act of making sense of life and nature. Literature also serves the same purpose as mythology, but aesthetic pleasures also play a role in this interpretation process. The nourishment of literature from the source called mythology is in two ways: the structure of works dealing with extraordinary narratives and the mythological aspects in works based on possibility rather than extraordinary. Feeding from sources reveals two different ways in terms of revealing the relationship: When an extraordinary work is examined - a work with a predominant motif - having the mythological knowledge of the culture in which that work was written, and being able to decipher the codes require expertise. When we start to examine a work based on possibility, a work that has decreased in terms of motif, we cannot ignore that the works can give the motifs as symbols or images, sometimes they can take place in the form of metaphor or reference, as well as form the main fiction of the work, Mr. Lee.

-Dragon motif is famous in our culture, teacher.

-I know. In the April 23 children's festival, the children of the country used the dragon motif every year.

The wolf motif, which has an important place in Turkish culture, takes its source from the old Turkish communities. The concept of animal-ancestor that developed in relation to the wolf, state, sovereignty, etc. It has also become the symbol of the elements, and has gained various meanings related to the elements of the sky and the earth. Occupying a great place in mythology, the wolf has taken the leading role in our oral literature, including in the Oguz Kagan Epic and the Ergenekon Epic. Cosmology of the ancient Turks is among the fields in which the wolf plays the leading role. Considering this sentence, we cannot ignore saying that the wolf is the representative of the light and the values associated with it. While the wolf motif has such an important place in our culture, it continues to exist strongly in our current age. It has not only taken place in epics in literary yields, but also showed itself in novels. In our aforementioned study, I will try to analyze the wolf motif based on the story of the same name in Halide Edip Adıvar's work named "The Wolf Climbing the Mountain" and Cengiz Aytmatov's novel "The Dreams of the Female Wolf" and try to analyze how they work the motif for you.

The narrator, speaking from the first singular point of view, is inspired by the French work that a Turkish poet he knows told him about, and delves into the dream of a wolf. In the second event, which is placed within this frame, what a child sees between sleep and wakefulness is presented by the "I" narrator.

The wolf tale, which has surreal lines and listened to by a small child in a devastated poor house, constitutes a third text circle. At the end of the story, the narrator, who wakes up from his dream, expresses the feelings that the tale awakens in him. The story told by the child in the dream that the narrator imagines and the wolf that wakes him up come together in the last scene. The boy, who has been transformed from the moment he encounters the gray wolf, finally becomes a wolf and takes an oath to fight by climbing the mountain like the wolves indicated in the fairy tale, whose homeland has been invaded.

The starting point of the wolf motif is Alfred de Vigny's "Death of the Wolf". In the work of the French writer, the story is this: One day, hunters raid the wolf province. In this raid, the father wolf, who wants to protect his mate and cubs, throws himself in front of the hunters and distracts the hunters. Meanwhile, the she-wolf and the baby wolf find the opportunity to escape. But at the end of the poem, the hunters tore the father wolf apart. The story of Halide Edip is as follows: One day, a fight broke out in the forest and the animals clashed with each other. At the end of forty days, the elephant sounds the trumpet of peace. With this peace horn, fighting animals gather. However, they are all injured and devastated. The elephant gives a long speech to the gathered animals. In the peace speech of the elephant, every animal thinks of the weaker one. Here a decision is made: an animal breed will be sacrificed so that peace can be maintained in the forest. For this, the wolf lineage is decided. The wolf also decides to go to the mountain and fight there until this treacherous judgment given for his lineage is lifted.

Halide Edip Adıvar opens the wolf motif in her work with the following sentence: "Finally, my head is empty and my heart is in boundless distress, I plunged into the dream of a wolf when the sea was flat with a golden light." In the later parts of her story, we observe that she depicts the wolf in her dream. This depiction is an important one that takes an important place in the story and leads to the theme:

"A wounded, huge gray wolf is sitting on its hind legs; his dreadful long head was staring into my eyes with his fiery eyes. Blood dripped from his shoulder onto his gray hair, strange pale spots rippling in the yellow light of the yellow moon. (…) his eyes were so deep, so fiery that his body was so big and terrible, like the father of all wolves, that you could not know when he sat and stared.

Well, I thought to myself that I was going to get into his stomach from his mouth, I was going to be a bite. But the eyes of this huge and terrible wolf, the blood dripping from his chin, showed that he had come out of a great, great war. As I stared, traces of a strange and familiar feeling arose within me, as if, indeed, he had stepped in and out of the wolf. I don't know what those marks were."

The narrator enters the process of making sense after seeing the wolf. He finds familiar traces in the wolf he sees, but he is in a position to not know them. After that sentence, the familiar feeling he didn't know seems to be slowly starting to come to life in his mind: "But he was reaching for the winding, forgotten legends of hundreds of questions."

What Halide Edip calls a winding, forgotten legend are legends dating back to the times of the ancient Turks. The epics of these periods, the heroism of the heroes who were the subject of epics and legends, and the victories they won at that time can be added to this. The wolf left such an impact on the narrator hero and interpreted himself in this way. After the signification process is completed, identification will begin: "I reached the secret path at the end of those tracks with my body; I understood the huge, scarred and fiery steppe, and became one with it."

In the later parts of the story, the wolf race listens to the tale of the disaster, and at the end, the wolves go to the mountain with the sacrifice of the wolves among the animals, and the struggle starts: "Everyone attacked the wolf race with traps, nails, claws and everything. In the face of this unprecedented defeat and destruction, wounded and hapless divorced wolves from their lairs, hunting and trapping places of the jungle, went to the mountains to howl the vengeance of their descendants.

In the War of Independence, Halide Edip argued that it was appropriate to accept the American mandate. Therefore, I cannot say that she is an author that I read fondly. However, based on the quotations from the work, it is possible to say the following about Halide Edip's wolf motif: The wolf motif in the story is wounded because it came out of a war. Halide Edip identified the wounded wolf with the situation in the country. The author cannot be isolated from the period in which he lived and cannot be considered separately. He is an artist who witnessed the First World War and the War of Independence periods in Adıvar and took the pulse of these periods. The wolf race's reading of a disaster tale can be thought of as the Turkish nation's reading of a disaster tale. Another item that needs to be considered together is that the wolves read their oath of vengeance and the Turks fight against those who see this disaster as their own. The artist's use of the wolf motif, especially when he envisions this wolf as injured, seems to express what he wants to convey to his readers.

The wolf motif has also been studied in the context of Chingiz Aitmatov's "She-Wolf".

Cengiz AYTMATOV is a writer who has a place in my heart with his works. The first work I read, mother earth and the rose-yellow descriptions I read later, are among the books I can't forget with its impressive language. One of his works is the dreams of the she-wolf.

The 'dreams' of the female wolf is one of the important novels published in 1900 and translated into Turkish by 'efik Özdek. The novel consists of four stories arranged in three parts. The first story is the story of the wolves, the second story is the story of Abdias, who left the seminary, the third story is the story of Jesus, and the fourth story is the shepherd Boston. 'Oman first begins to be told through the eyes of the she-wolf Akbar. Later, the events are handled through the eyes of Abdias and with flashbacks. In the last part of the oman, the events are presented through the eyes of both Akbar and Boston.

Taşçaynar and Akbar are located at the center of the events in the entrance part of the work. This introduction serves as a guide in terms of giving the descriptions of the two wolves and understanding and following Cengiz Aytmatov's use of the wolf motif:

"The she-wolf closed her eyes and snorted with delight. Breasts on her belly that turn red and collect milk

It had risen in two rows. He stretched as slowly as his lair would allow, but with great pleasure. Fear was replaced by hope, and he was completely calm. He leaned against Taşçaynar's gray mane again. 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 dreams 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

He became a gray wolf by gaining an 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 the dreams of the "She-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 dreams 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 wolf motif in the works of Halide Edip Adıvar, one of the first novelists of the republican era, named "The Wolf Climbing the Mountain" and "The Dreams of the Female Wolf" by Cengiz Aytmatov, one of the important novelists of Kyrgyz literature, are similar to the way they are handled. 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. There is a difference in this motif drawn by the authors in terms of spiritual portrait. In Halide Edip, the wolf motif shows itself together with the dream motif and becomes the main hero, while in Aytmatov's work, the wolves become the main heroine without the dream motif. Considering that the motif is the smallest element of storytelling and that it is indivisible and indivisible, it would be appropriate to come to the following conclusion: When the wolf motif is removed from the works in question, the works become empty and nothing remains of them.

After all, the wolf is the animal that has a privileged place in our race, it represents independence.

What is it based on that societies choose different animals as representatives?

-I'll look into this matter, teacher. Why is dragon privileged for us, and is animal selection based on race?

Is that why you're interested in genetic engineering? dissolve the races of nations

for the supplement, Mr. Lee?

I think genetic engineering is the profession of the future.

Does software engineering have a chance? We live in the digital age.

-Software doesn't make me laugh, teacher. Stories that the person used to laugh at before suddenly gain a frightening power.