The Actantial Scheme and Functional Structure 3
The Beginning Situation: Connor goes to the War Office to ask the permission to British officer to go to Gallipoli. The Qualifying Test of
Transformation: To go to The War Office, Connor was guided by Orhan. The Main Test of Transformation: The British Officer does not allow Connor to head
to Gallipoli because it remains a very sensitive military zone and he thinks that Connor could not possibly find his sons bodies. He does not give Connor a
permission paper to go there, and suggests Connor to go back to Australia instead. Connor
: All i need from you is a piece of paper and a stamp, saying that i can go there.
British officer : I simply couldn’t, Mr. Connor, even if that were my
inclination. Connor
: I can find them. British officer : How could you possibly hope to do that? . . . They
would dig an enormous bloody pit and rake the whole lot in with a few handfuls of lime. No names. Horse, mules
and the men. All turned into fertilizer. This is the war anyone has given a damn.
Connor : My boys should be buried at home, beside their mother.
British officer : Go home, Mr. Connor. 00:32:09
– 00:33:01
The Glorifying Test of Transformation: Next day after he went to the war
office, Connor gets his breakfast, and he got a cup of coffee with bitter taste. Ayshe’s father joins in the table and talks to him using a Turkish language, so
Connor does not understand what he says. Therefore, Ayshe tells that his father asked about his wife. Connor says that his wife is dead. When Ayshe asks about
his sons, Connor only shows a sad face. Ayshe got her sympathy for him, after she knows what he was doing in Istanbul, so she tells him the way to go to Gallipoli.
He must to take the ferry to the town of Chanak, then, pay a fisherman to across
the straits, so he does not need a British permission to go there. The Ending
Situation: After discovers the way to go to Gallipoli, he directly goes to find his
missing sons.