General
The Silent House consists of 32 chapters. Each chapter is narrated from a different narrator's point of view in the first person. The names of the five narrators in the novel in turn are Recep, Buyukhanim, Hasan, Faruk and Metin. The narrator of the opening chapter is Recep and the narrator of the closing chapter is Buyukhanim. Each of the narrators has a different number of chapters to tell. Hasan has eight, Buyukhanim seven, Recep six, Faruk six, and Metin has five chapters. The distribution of the chapters to the narrators are as following:
| Narrator | Chapter |
|---|---|
| Recep | 1, 6, 13, 19, 27, 30 |
| Büyükhanım | 2, 7, 11, 16, 23, 29, 32 |
| Hasan | 3, 8, 12, 17, 20, 22, 26, 31 |
| Faruk | 4, 9, 14, 18, 24, 28 |
| Metin | 5, 10, 15, 21, 25 |
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