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Beyza Uluyol
Cemre Simge Tosuner
Ilgaz Sümer
Ahmet Ergün

Meaning: Juliet's yearning for a more functional family

-Throughout the text we see Esther's constant resentment and jealousy towards Juliet, this is a major theme of the story

"Nobody ever fussed over me like that."

"She should be grateful of those lessons. I never had private lessons when I was a child."

We also see a type of resentment towards her mother from Juliet in the story.

She talks about that her mom calls Aynur Hanım when she doesn't cook. And she mentions Nona's cooking in an elaborate way as if she is praising Nona because she cooks for her while Ester doesn't.

She says that she loves Monday afternoons, that is probably because her mother takes her to eat ice-cream. In other words, she loves Mondays because she spends quality time with her mother.

There seems to be a strained relationship between Nona and Esther as well, Esther almost acts like a teenager that got scolded by her mom as she slams her bedroom door.

Juliet also shows signs of attention seeking and jealousy towards Selma, which manifests through her blue satin shoes but the underlaying cause of this jealousy is perhaps the fact that Selma has a big, "proper" family.

Esther does not believe Juleit, claiming she is faking her illness, which is another sign of their strained relationship.

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DENİZ YAZICIOĞLU, MELİS SARIOĞLU, TÜRKÜ SU MARASALI, BEGÜM ERDEM

1. In development of a child’s personality, the main caregiver and the parental figures’ attitude against them play an important role; via reflecting their beliefs onto the child.

1. The idea of her mother being in a relationship with man triggers her attachment issues.

2. Juliet being exposed to the term evil eye by Nona continuously may have caused her to subconsciously manifest this belief into her life.

3. “Is it because of the evil eye, like Nona says?”

4. “That’s evil eye. Nona says that the evil eye is jealousy."

2. Generational gap between the three of them plays into their past and current experiences and relationships they have.

1. The evil eye could be a reflection of her mother's jealousy and we can see this when the priest's presence causes her to get rid of the evil eye the priest also tells her mom there is no use in being this jealous and critical towards a child.

2. “And you leave me for that man.” “You see,  she makes no sense at all, Father. What man? I only said that she’s ungrateful."  “ How can a child be ungrateful?” “Leave the gratitude for grown-ups.”

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Şevval Naz Ertik
İlayda Yılmaz
Nazlıcan Bozoğlu
Ayşe Meryem Kösebalaban
1) People from different cultural backgrounds supporting, respecting, helping each other and interacting with each other.
2) The evil eye becomes a common ground between different religions. To exemplify, Muhtar Bey, a Muslim man, suggests getting help from a priest instead of an imam and the priest helps the family even though they are Jewish.
The priest is fasting in solidarity even though Christianity doesn't require fasting. He does this because he is invited over for iftar, which shows his respect.
Although they are not from the same cultural group, Ester (Mother) gave Juliet's shoes to their Muslim neighbor.
Juliet's family eats the food Muhtar Bey's wife cooks. Though they pay for the food, the fact that they eat the same food shows an interaction between them.

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Melis Nisan Avşar, Hami Uğur Aksakal, Kaan Giray Bozak, Mecbure Didem Üçpunar

Meaning: I believe the concept of jealousy and good faith among people examined in different layers such as the mother-child relationship and neighbors’ relationship in terms of wealth tax.

1- Turkey sending lots of non-Muslim citizens to labour battalions.

2- Them not tipping Muhtar Bey more than a certain amount because it might be perceived as being wealthy.

3- Not letting their neighbors into their home even though they live in that house for a long time. Fearing that he will see their wealth and act differently after.

4- Hiding their valuable things from the people because of the ‘’unfair taxes’’ like when they (the government) auctioned Mrs.Levi’s carpets in the street. Lots of Jewish and Christian families went broke because of those taxes and this eventually leads to a socio-economic gap between the non-muslims and muslims.

5- Ester’s mistrust towards Juliet, refusing to help her and constantly repeating the fact that she is faking.

6- Throughout the story, Ester almost never communicates with Juliet and when she does it is to shut her up.

7- Juliet doesn't trust her mother in the way a child should, she always looks up to Nona for care rather than her mother.

8- Juliet shows a very obvious distrust towards the doctors examining her.

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2)The effect of a mothers indifference on a child.
3)"Even the Golden Horn,the bridge....knows that I am dying of the evil eye."This goes to show how her mother doesn't really care about Juliet.
Throughout the text, author constantly mentions how busy Juliet's mother is. It might also be possible to deduce that because of her mother's indifference towards her, Juliet feels more connected to Nona than her mother
"A few minutes later,my mother opens her bedroom door and tiptoes through the foyer without noticing that I am dying"

Ege Gazitepe
İkra Çıbuk
Çağla Gürses
Batıkan Durali
Ege Hamit Dağçınar

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1) The concept of jealousy is examined

2)
Family hiding their wealth from ''the others''

Mother's jealousy towards her child ''Nobody ever fussed over me liked that''

Juliet being jealous of muhtar bey's child Selma

Juliet constantly asking if the man in the straw fedora hat is there, afraid that her mother will go with him

Zeynep Şener
Beyzanur Turan
Lidya Çamlıca
Gizem Gergerlioğlu

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Brainstorming_ group activity: 1) As a group, go back to your notes on “The Evil Eye Expert.” 2) Choose a meaning (based on the list we've generated in class), and 3) start writing ideas you think may be connected to that (check Kirszner 38-40 for a model).                           

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Brainstorming_ group activity: 1) As a group, go back to your notes on “The Evil Eye Expert.” 2) Choose a meaning (based on the list we've generated in class), and 3) start writing ideas you think may be connected to that (check Kirszner 38-40 for a model).                           

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1) Theme: Different religions finding a common ground through superstitious beliefs.

2) All kinds of religious leaders try to solve one common problem.

3)
a- Even though Muhtar Bey has never entered the house, through this common problem he is let into the house, which indicates they have found a common ground.

b- A Muslim man suggests the help of Father Dimitris.

c- Father Dimitris fasts in unison with the Muslims.

d- Ester giving away Juliet's shoes to Selma.

e- Ester and Juliet eating Selma Hanım's food when Nona is out and Ester doesn't have time to cook, even though Ester refers to Muslims as "the others".

f- Muhtar Bey takes the children to school and carries their heavy bags and "holds their hands" and in the first paragraph Juliet says "we're all Jewish here" which indicates that all the children are Jewish and a Muslim man takes them so school and back.

g- "...but after a while I started to like his voice as much as I liked the ezan and prayers in our bright synagogue on Zülfaris Street." Various cultures are in so much harmony together that even the little children find parts of different religions as pleasant as their own.
Juliet finds ezan as familiar and deeply ingrained in herself as the prayers in the synagogue.

Mesut Alpul
Bengi Erol
Ayşe Aslan
Kerem Dönger