Snow By Orhan Pamuk Final Paper - 1371 Words

Snow Orphan Pamuk – Final Paper Snow by Orhan Pamuk is a story set in the volatility of a small Turkish town called Kars, which is just off the Turkish border. The city of Kars is currently in a battle between tradition and change and religion and modern atheist, all set in the beautiful, but sometimes treacherous beauty of a border city during a winter snowstorm. Ka is an exiled poet, who has returned to Turkey because of the death of his mother. Ka travels to the northern city of Kars to visit someone he knew in college and admired from afar Ipek. He uses the excuse of being a journalist sent to the city to write about the recent suicides of young girls and the upcoming mayoral election. While in Kars, Ka is immediately caught up in the events of the town, and has the opportunity to meet with governing bodies and families of the suicide victims. This paper will explore the idea of Islamic feminism in the context of Kars and the relationship between state authority, disobedience, and individual freedom. In Snow, Ka, the protagonist identifies the suicide girls and the ones who are against taking off their hijabs as â€Å"Islamic Feminists, which means, Islamic feminists ground their arguments in Islam and its teachings, seek the full equality of women and men in the personal and public sphere, and can include non-Muslims in the discourse and debate. In Snow, the headscarves controversy overshadowed turkey and the modernized state, the secularist elites implement secularism by