Shekure Quotes

1.After Shekure finds Enishte, her father, dead on the floor of the room with the blue door. Shekure is completely distort when she looks at him with his head smashed and butchered. Shekure is completely distort when she looks at him with his head smashed and butchered. Pamuk writes, “Then I saw him on the floor. I screamed, overcome with horror. Then I screamed again. Gazing at my father’s body, I fell silent” (Pamuk 179). The thoughts that run through Shekure’s mind are the same as what Stock writes, “After the terror I/ went home and cried and/ said how could this happen and/ how could such a thing be” (Stock 1-4). Shekure knowns her father is a victim if a murder and the murderer is still out there. After Shekure drags her father’s body to the anteroom, she begins to think about what she needs to do to stay in her home and away from Hasan, her late husband’s

Stock writes, “What/ will happen next and how can we live now” (Stock 7-8), these are the same thoughts that surface to after Shekure finds her father. Shekure is conflagrated with sadness and her father’s murder brings her to the conclusion that she needs to marry Black. Black is the man that will protect her from the murderer if he returns and if she would be forcefully dragged back to Hasan’s home Black will keep her from that as well. Pamuk expresses to the readers what Shekure is thinking about her father’s death and the effects of that death, “Had this happened before I was married, I’d have risen from bed, and taking charge of the situation like the man of the house, I’d have suppressed my fears and scared away the jinns and spirits” (Pamuk 211). Shekure’s father is the one who protects her and without his presence she is left to fend for herself, also contributing to her reasoning behind marrying Black so soon after Enishte’s death, making him the luminous