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aba wolf tore to pieces. The story of Halide Edip is as follows: One day, a fight broke out in the forest and the animals clashed with each other. At the end of forty days, the elephant sounds the trumpet of peace. With this peace horn, fighting animals gather. But they are all wounded and devastated. The elephant gives a long speech to the gathered animals. In the peace speech of the elephant, every animal thinks of the weaker one. Here a decision is made: an animal breed will be sacrificed so that peace can be maintained in the forest. For this, the wolf lineage is decided. The wolf also decides to go to the mountain and fight there until this treacherous judgment given for his lineage is lifted.

Halide Edip Adıvar opens the wolf motif in her work with the following sentence: "Finally, my head is empty and my heart is in boundless distress, I plunged into the dream of a wolf when the sea was flat with a golden light." In the later parts of her story, we observe that she depicts the wolf in her dream. This depiction is an important one that takes an important place in the story and leads to the theme:

"A wounded, huge gray wolf is sitting on its hind legs; his dreadful long head was staring into my eyes with his fiery eyes. Blood dripped from his shoulder onto his gray hair, strange pale spots rippling in the yellow light of the yellow moon. (…), his eyes were so deep, so hot that his body was so big and scary, like the father of all wolves, that even as I sat and stared, I thought to myself that I would go through his mouth and be a morsel. But the eyes of this huge and terrible wolf, the blood dripping from his chin, showed that he had come out of a great, great war. As I stared, traces of a strange and familiar feeling arose within me, as if, indeed, he had stepped in and out of the wolf. I don't know what those marks were."

The narrator enters the process of making sense after seeing the wolf. He finds familiar traces in the wolf he sees, but he is in a position to not know them. After that sentence, the familiar feeling he didn't know seems to be slowly starting to come to life in his mind: "But he was reaching for the winding, forgotten legends of hundreds of questions."

What Halide Edip calls a winding, forgotten legend are legends dating back to the times of the ancient Turks. The epics of these periods, the heroism of the heroes who were the subject of epics and legends, and the victories they won at that time can be added to this. The wolf left such an impact on the narrator hero and interpreted himself in this way. After the signification process is completed, identification will begin: "I reached the secret path at the end of those tracks with my body; I understood the huge, scarred and fiery steppe, and became one with it."

In the later parts of the story, the wolf race listens to the tale of the disaster, and at the end, the wolves go to the mountain with the sacrifice of the wolves among the animals, and the struggle starts: "Everyone attacked the wolf race with traps, nails, claws and everything. In the face of this unprecedented defeat and destruction, wounded and hapless divorced wolves from their lairs, hunting and trapping places of the jungle, went to the mountains to howl the vengeance of their descendants.

Based on the quotations from the work, it is possible to say the following about Halide Edip's wolf motif: The wolf motif in the story is wounded because it came out of a war. Halide Edip identified the wounded wolf with the situation in the country. The author cannot be isolated from the period in which he lived and cannot be considered separately. He is an artist who witnessed the First World War and the War of Independence periods in Adıvar and took the pulse of these periods. The wolf race's reading of a disaster tale can be thought of as the Turkish nation's reading of a disaster tale. Another item that needs to be considered together is that the wolves read their oath of vengeance and the Turks fight against those who see this disaster as their own. The artist's use of the wolf motif, especially when he envisions this wolf as injured, seems to express what he wants to convey to his readers.

The wolf motif has also been studied in the context of Chingiz Aitmatov's "She-Wolf".

"Members of the Female Wolf" is one of the important novels published in 1900 and translated into Turkish by Efik Özdek. 'Oman' consists of four stories that are structured in three parts. The first story is the story of the wolves, the second story is the story of Abdias, who left the seminary, the third story is the story of Jesus, and the fourth story is the shepherd Boston. 'Oman first begins to be told through the eyes of the she-wolf Akbar. Later, the events are handled through the eyes of Abdias and with flashbacks. In the last part of the oman, the events are presented through the eyes of both Akbar and Boston.

Taşçaynar and Akbar are located at the center of the events in the entrance part of the work. This introduction serves as a guide in terms of giving the descriptions of the two wolves and understanding and following Cengiz Aytmatov's use of the wolf motif:

"The she-wolf closed her eyes and snorted with delight. Breasts on her belly that turn red and collect milk

It had risen in two rows. He stretched as slowly as his lair would allow, but with great pleasure. Fear was replaced by hope, and he was completely calm. Tasc again