GradeSaver, 18 September 2019 Web.'Then - and this was probably the worst of all the awful things that followed - Turgut pressed his friend's hand to his own heart and broke out in a keening wail, words that seemed to come to us from the depths of a history not only too ancient but too alien for me to distinguish their syllables, a howl of grief akin to the muezzin's call to prayer, which we had heard from the minarets in the city - except that Turgut's wail sounded more like a summons to hell - a string of horror-stricken notes that seemed to arise from the memory of a thousand Ottoman camps, a million Turkish soldiers. Next Section Symbols, Allegory and Motifs Previous Section Quotes How To Cite in MLA Format Anonymous 'The Historian Study Guide: Analysis'.

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Then again, when the reader backs away from the singular character and her story, they find a community all seeking to solve riddles posed by mysterious, ancient books (like religious books, perhaps), by killing the undead villain who haunts them all. She must save her mother, a common motif in this sort of plot structure, and on the way, she must allow others to help her and her father in their quest, using discernment to know who is trustworthy and who is not. When the reader sees the microcosm of the novel, they see the archetypal journey of a nameless narrator on a quest for her identity. In their own daily lives, the professors experience this dilemma through their respective copies of the mysterious book (Paul, the narrator's father, and also Bartholomew, but then also another man called Turgut Bora). In this case, Helen's survival depends on Paul and the narrator, and the story is intertwined with another parallel narrative-that of Count Dracula. Her mother's name is Helen, a significant name from literary history often associated with women who are highly desirable. But then she learns the piece that makes the meaning of the plot emerge: the missing woman is her mother. The narrator understands the care between a father and daughter, so she feels she understands the scope of the journey she is trying to find her father's friend's daughter-nothing more. Both are professors with the utmost care for their daughters. Some of the characters in the plot seem to be set in parallel action, like Bartholomew Rossi, the professor who mentored Paul in his younger days.

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