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CHAPTER 5 – TWO SHIRTS OF FLAME 
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As in Halide Edip’s 
Ateşten Gömlek
and in 
Yaban 
there is a first person narrator in 
all the fragments.
The narrative similarity between Fragment A and an episode in Halide Edip’s 
The 
Turkish Ordeal
has already been noted. Fragment A also has parallels with 
Yaban
. 
The general parallel is the presence of an educated man in an Anatolian village 
confronted with behaviour which is strange to him. As in 
Yaban
the strangeness and 
remoteness of the place is emphasised. As in 
Yaban 
also the narrator is talking to 
himself as well as narrating the action and his own reflections and recollections 
influence his conduct towards the villagers. As in 
Yaban
these recollections include 
the narrator’s earlier relationships with women; in Fragment A it is the memory of an 
infidelity of which the narrator was the victim that rouses him to a fury against the 
adulterous village woman Cennet. It is striking that the name of the woman in 
Fragment A, Cennet (Paradise), recurs in 
Yaban, 
though in the latter the adulterous 
woman defies the villagers and their customs and abandons her husband
47
: his 
feelings correspond perfectly to Halide Edip’s definition of a “Shirt of Flame.” Other 
smaller details which recur include the reference to the Samaritan woman
48
and to 
the cracked heels of the village women which must have drawn the attention of the 
visitor from Istanbul. Just as the narrator himself in 
Yaban, 
the Cennet of Fragment 
A walks off in an unknown direction and to an unknown destination.

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Kudret II, 151 notes the parallel 
48
Karosmanoğlu 2006, 53, Jacobson, 54 

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