Imre Kertész interview

1) Those 2000 giant stone blocks, recreate the feeling of total vulnerability that the Jews felt in the concentration camps, because you are sorrounded by giants structures and they block you from seeing what is next to you.

2) He is now living in Germany, the place that wantes to kill him once, and he felt safer there than in his own country.

3) The antisemitism before Auschwitz wanted to eliminate the Jews. The antisemitism after it, wants another Auschwitz

4) It makes us much richer because it helps us to avoid making the mistakes humanity did in the past.

5) The metaphor he uses compares our souls locked in with the trapped feeling of remembering the Holocaust the book gives to us when we read it.

Fatelessness Language Analysis

Pages 90-91
Theme: innocence
"And just like us, free persons, he had a full head of..."
"We made the right choice back in the brickyard"
"I could see they were already set to recieve us, happily explaining..."

Pages 180->185
Theme: hopelessness
"Invariably gray sky"
"I could not help but notice that all the other sick people...before me"
"we were also taken off to the doctor less frequently"
"having maited in vain for it to subside"
"never before had I sensed a more hopeless struggle or a more stubborn"
"I gave up and just watched the gluttony,...the unconcealed happiness"
"I no longer engaged in combat with them, no longer disturbed them"

Pages 138-139
Theme: Language as a mean of interaction"
"Are known in the concentration caps as "Musulmäner", I was told"
"Among one another...business, of course

Letter analysis

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   The language my classmate used in his letter is very strong and effective, because of the vocabulary he uses. Words as feels like hell, awful soups, undrinkable water, harassing, etc. Thanks to this, the letter is very moving and vey shocking, so I would say my classmate's style is effective.

   In terms of context and time, he mentions the horrible conditions in the concentration camps, and he said the father have been there for one year so Gyuri can understand his situation in context.

Writing task

Dear father,

       It have been 45 days since I am in the camp. I am writing to you to let you know how much I love you and how much I want to see you again. I am not sure if that would be possible given the circumstances. I can barely survive, the food I recieve is not suficient and I have to trade with another interns to get some extra food. I feel dirty, I am hungry, I don't know what is going to happen to me. They force us to work hard every day and they don't care about my recent wound in my knee. I can barely walk and I feel they are doing this just for punishing us, but I do not have an idea of why are they doing this. They treat us like animal, yesterday one of the german guards punch me on the face without any reason.
   I met another prisoner(yes, we are prisoner) who is from Budapest, and he miss home just as much as I do. He helps me a lot dealing with this and carrying on, making me think in something different than sorviving, because that is my priority right now. But with the time I am getting tired of this and I am thinking on giving up...I feel hopeless.
   What do you think father, will they kill me like they do in another camps? Will they release some day? Please answer me back and tell me you are ok.
   Yours faithfully,
   Gyuri.

the curious incident

The Curious Incident:

 1)  What does this tell us about how Christopher's mind-and our minds-works?

  Normally,we just focus in general things, so our mind memorizes only a few things, but Cristopher's mind
consider almost every detail. We could say he isn't as "lazy" as we are in that aspect, in the example he even counted the amount of cows and visible houses!

2)What does most people choose to describe, and why? What do they see?

   Just the most important things, otherwise, we would really have to describe a lot of things. Although we see everything, we don't memorize even the half of the details.

3)Are people "lazy", as Christopher thinks? Or is that we select in a different way?

   No we are not. It is just a word to understand the type of thought, but Christopher just see thing differently as we do, in a more specific way.

4)Why should we select in a different way to Crhistopher - and reduce what we see?

   It is not important to understand every detail of something, we only need a general understanding, or we would take a lot of time to get a simple idea

5)What governs the way we select what we perceive?

   In general, we select what we think is vital to understand something.

6)What part does language play in the way we select our perceptions?

In language, we synthesis things, taking from all the information, the most important things.

7)What does this tell us about how Christopher's mind - and our minds - work?

   As he tried to understand everything, he gets confused being enale to procces so many details. In another words, he crashes.

Fatelessness chapter 1 analysis

 1) What characters are introduced in this chapter:

Teacher ,father, stepmother, gyuri (main character), Mr. Suto,shopkeeper,old lady(shopkeeper's wife) ,big busted blonde woman(bakers wife), baker,annamarie,the two sisters,uncle steiner ,uncle fleischmann,ravenous hydra,gyuri's grandfather and grandmother (father's parents),the stepmothes's mom,uncle willie ,uncle lajos,uncle dini or denes. 

2) Choose two characters and select a quote to describe them physically psychologically.

  Uncle Willie: "His head is pear-shaped, broad, bulging, and bald on top, but narowing ate the cheeks and toward the chin"

   Stepmother´s mama: "She has a narrow, sallow face, enormous dark eyes, and two withered flaps of skin dangling from her neck, which gives her the appearence of a very alert, discerning hunting dog"

3) What narrative technique? Provide evidence.

The point of view is a first person view, because the narrator is a character , this can be seen in the quote: "I didn`t go to school today."

The narration is an indirect one, because he is telling the story, but not to the reader, he is just telling it. Can be seen in the quote used before.

It uses a direct speech, because of the uses of speech marks and dialogues between characters.

The story is in past tense during this chapter, as if he wrote it during the night of that day, in the quote used we can see that is in past.

4) Describe the setting of this chapter

In this chapter they are in the city of Budapest, Hungary, in which the character goes through different places. The first one is the school, but he takes the day off. Then he goes to his father shop. After that they went shopping, then t their home, but the character had to go to the bakers. The chapter ends in the house of the character.

The time in which the story happens is a the beginning of the Second World War, in which they started sending Jews to Labour Camps, as was happening to the Father.

In the chapter the ambient is sad, because the father is going. This can be seen when they start praying.

Travel writing Maycomb in the 30`s

   When I woke I wasn`t at my home, I was somewhere else at night. I was in the middle of a town, but I couldn`t recognize this. I felt like in the 30`s or something because the arquitecture of the houses seemed to be very old and the cars too. The first house I saw had a porch with Eave Dentils and Tuscan Columns and as I continued walking I saw some shed roofed houses. I could`t belive it! I saw a Rolls-Royce Phantom II and a Cadillac Twelve, I was definetely in the 30`s!

   There was a lot of green, and as after I got out of the town I saw a river and a lot of cotton plantations. When I saw a huge plain terrain I decided to go back, there was no place to go but the town. The sun started to wake up and so did the persons. It was a very sunny and warm morning and almost everyone was using hats and no one was using shorts. I think it wasn`t a very rich year; everyone was using cheap clothes made of cheap materials. I saw a lot of men using black suits, it was probably important to have one around there. 

   I thought I should talk to someone to know where was I, then I approached to a very beautiful woman using a bib-overall. We had a chat and she told me I was at Maycomb. I was confused and I started to desesparate. Everyone walked very slowly and they were very careless. I was in the floor to wake up. I knew it was a nightmare, my agony was even bigger when I realized it was full of old people. I started to get very tired so I just laid in the floor and observed people.

   They acted very passively, I was in the floor! I think they were reserved people. not agressive at all, I would`ve like they were a little bit more active. And finally, I woke up. It was an experiment!

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