Chingiz Aitmatov is one of the most well-known Turkic authors in world literature, and his works have been translated into 176 languages. Readers welcome every work he writes with great interest. He used powerful symbols in both of his stories. "The Red Apple" is one of Aitmatov's early works and addresses city life and love. "Meeting the Son," on the other hand, deals with the painful separation between a father and his child. Both stories are works in which Aitmatov expresses emotions in their clearest and purest form. With these characteristics, they are stories that deeply affect the reader and are read breathlessly.