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CHAPTER 5 – TWO SHIRTS OF FLAME 
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Fragment B is a tortured soliloquy that could find its place in 
Yaban.
Here the 
physical desert has become a spiritual desert of torment. A particularly intriguing 
parallel is the rejection of similes and comparisons because there is nothing 
compared to his grief by the narrator of Fragment B with Ahmet Celal’s thought, 
“Simile, metaphor - simile metaphor. However in life there is no such thing”
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Fragment C is a dialogue between the dying Kerim Bey and the narrator whom 
Kerim Bey addresses as Tevfik Bey. In interpreting it one needs to remember that it 
is the close of the novel. In its last line death is approaching Kerim Bey but has not 
yet reached him. The parallel with 
Yaban 
whose final scene suggests the imminent 
death of Ahmet Celal but does not anticipate it is intriguing. Kerim and Tevfik are 
obviously childhood friends and their conversation turns to childhood memories and 
particularly their mothers. Kerim Bey expresses a longing for the paradise of 
innocence and childhood secure in a mother’s affection beyond which “the world of 
love and life is a desert.” He wonders why as we grow older our unhappiness 
increases. In a delirium Kerim Bey seems to the narrator to call out “that woman’s 
name” but the narrator can’t be sure noting that “we hear what we want to hear.” It is 
risky to make conjectures out of only three fragments but, if the narrator is the same 
character throughout, “that woman” may be the woman whose memory inspired him 
to fury in Fragment A. Imagining that he hears her name from the delirious Kerim in 
Fragment C may suggest that the mainspring of the plot was a love triangle 
analogous to the love of İhsan and Peyami for Ayşe. In Yakup Kadri, however, the 
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