Status Updates From My Name is Red

Black and Shekure meet up to discuss hiring false witnesses to attest to her husband’s death so they can be married. Black secures the divorce, claiming to represent Enishte as Shekure’s guardian and makes the preparations for the wedding. The bridal procession commences and then the two are married.

Shekure returns home to discover her father’s body and the upturned home. She quickly cleans and moves the body to avoid the children discovering and once they arrive home enlists the help of Hayriye to further clean and attend to the body. The color red describes its omnipresence and how it was created in the form of paint.

The murderer sneaks into Enishte’s home; Enishte discovers him and they have a conversation about the blasphemous commission and the opinions of Elegant and his death. Enishte resorts to flattery in an attempt to save his own life, but is ultimately killed and describes his slow death and transition to the afterlife in remarkable detail.

تا اینجا میتونم بگم شیفته ی نگارگری شدم

Shekure receives the letters from Esther and is tormented by love for Black, and a different kind of “love” for Hasan, resigning that her husband will never return. She has Orhan deliver a letter to Black agreeing to meet him at the abandoned house. They later meet up and become romantic. They discuss marriage and the potential issues that may arise.