Identity, a multi-layered concept, is shaped according to the tools a person uses to define themselves. Mother tongue is one of the dominant elements within these tools. In times and places where the dominance of the mother tongue is lost due to reasons such as forced or voluntary migration, exile, captivity, occupation, the consciousness of the mother tongue operates in different ways. The bond an individual establishes with their mother tongue can manifest in behaviors such as acceptance, forgetting, denial, suppression, highlighting, sanctification, or belittlement, depending on these conditions. Depending on their consciousness of their mother tongue, the individual rejects their existing identity or chooses to create new identities while constructing a new identity according to these behavioral patterns in the abstract or concrete space where they do not feel they belong. Whatever the reason, the bond or disconnection established with language, an important element of identity and one of the tools of self-expression, is also reflected in literature. In this study, the reflections in literature of individuals who cannot speak their mother tongue for various reasons, the consciousness of the mother tongue in literary works, and the changing views on the approach to the mother tongue over the years will be discussed, examining the effect of social changes on the approach to the mother tongue.