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CHAPTER 3 – SOME TOPOI IN THE KURTULUŞ EDEBİYATI 
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cosmopolitan family of the time. Near the beginning of the novel Feride has fallen in 
love with one of her cousins, Kâmran, and comes in fact to be engaged to him. 
However, on the eve of their marriage she finds out that he had an affair with another 
woman. This dishonesty hurts her free and honest heart and she bravely walks out of 
the house of her aunt and mother in law to be and sets out to become a teacher in 
Anatolia. Feride goes to Anatolia out of desperation and to escape from her family, 
whereas Aliye’s venture into Anatolia was out of commitment to a cause.
Like Aliye, Feride has to go through corrupt bureaucrats in order to find a post as a 
teacher and both of them successfully insist on being posted to remote places in 
Anatolia which are the least attractive to other candidates. The remote village where 
Feride starts her teaching gives her a shock at the beginning. In a manner reminiscent 
of 
Yaban,
Feride’s first impression of Zeyniler is of a “pile of burning ruins with 
smoke rising here and there”
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. But in contrast to Aliye in 
Vurun Kahpeye
she is not 
met there by malicious people who mean her ill; rather they act out of ignorance. 
Feride adopts a little girl, Munise which means friendly or good-natured, whose 
mother is a fallen woman. It is noteworthy that the fallen woman also appears as a 
motif in Yakup Kadri’s 
Ateşten Gömlek 
(Shirt of Fire)
 
and
 Yaban.
In Zeyniler Feride meets one of the most important characters in the plot, Doctor 
Hayrullah Bey. Hayrullah Bey is a military doctor, an obviously sympathetic character 
of wide experience, who immediately grasps that there is an underlying emotional 
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Güntekin 1993, 161 

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