Hanife is a girl's story which was written by Sevgi Soysal. She was a little girl who grew up without any love. She had a child marriage with Mustafa and they marry because of their family's field. Their marriage can be a business marriage. I don't want to tell the story because I want to write about the justice system, honour killings, the ironic situations and so on.
First of all, while I was reading the story I recognized the ironic issue. When the family members killed Hanife, all the villagers react this death very silently. They sit behind the place where they killed Hanife and continue their lives. And in my opinion, the most effective action in this story is throwing stones to the Hanife's death body. All the villager women throw the stone to Hanife to take their revenges and angers. In this point, I hope that women try to secure Hanife or cry for her unfair die. But, I chose to be againts Hanife who is innocent. So, this reaction shows us women accept the patriarchalism. Not the men's part look Hanife as a whore. The women's part thought that she was the guilty one and she deserved to die.
Hanife was killed because her family wanted to secure their family name. Hanife was killed because her brother is an idiot and cruel and reckless. Hanife was killed because her uncle cheated her with non-real dream which is being a governor's wife. Hanife was killed because the villager women ashamed of her, they did not help her. Hanife was killed because someone wanted her to die. Hanife was killed because...
2 comments:
The part about women accepting patriarchy is a crucial one. Women have internalised oppression, and this makes it all the harder to fight back.
Isn't it awful that we can find so many "reasons" why Hanife was killed? And none of them were actually related to her own actions...
Yes, it is awful that Hanife die for nothing and the worst one is many girls like Hanife have been killed for nothing.
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