Memed, My Hawk (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)

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İnce Memed, or Slim Memed, a young man who is eighteen years old when he takes up his calling. During the difficult early years of his life, when he experienced beatings and privations, he became physically stunted and somewhat gnarled; he never grew to his full height. He has developed into a hardened, bitter young man who nevertheless can manage an ironically cheerful smile much of the time. He falls deeply in love with Hatçe, and his attachment to her leads to a violent confrontation with Abdi Ağa and his minions. Memed becomes an outlaw, but of a...

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