"My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west"

This quote by Orhan Pamuk talks to the struggle of belonging and identity. It suggests that the hero in the story is somebody who is captured between two worlds, the West and the East. He values the important things he has concerned appreciate in the West, such as liberty, chance, and progress, but he also wishes to come from the East, to be part of a community and culture that he can relate to. This quote talks to the difficulty of fixing up 2 different cultures and identities, and the struggle of finding a place to belong. It suggests that the hero is trying to find a method to balance the two worlds, to discover a method to belong without compromising the values he has come to value in the West. It is a suggestion that identity is complex which it is possible to discover a method to belong without sacrificing one's values.