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Letter to Shea

Dear Shea:

   What I am going to write in this letter is not a threat or an obligation, is a moral advice that will help society and you as a person. I would tell you that you must leave your job if it were illegal, but it is worse than that, you are damaging people and society without being punished. You cover the terrible truth behind your euphemisms watching how society is more blind every day. War is a serius thing and should be communicated as terrible as it is, otherwise war could be consider as something normal without the real impact that it has. In honor of the people who dies in the fields do not hide their reality. There is an endless amount of jobs to help us progress, so why would you like to lie and hide the truth instead of helping? Please, you should really consider leaving your job, of course it is not an obligation, but if you insist from now keep in your mind that every time you see extreme ignorance and lack of information, you are one of the main causes. if some day war becomes a normal issue, the possible colossal consequences will be partially your fault. Remember, information is a right.

                                                                   Aldous Huxley.

8 tips task

1) In this part of the letter there where to many clauses at the beginning so they joined all the clauses in one

Fatelessness writing task

1.-

   Fatelessness has a very important message, but did the author thought in the real message he was transmiting when he was writing the novel?

We may think that when Imre Kertesz wrote fatelessness he never considered the real message that the book has, because the vision of the holocaust we have today, is very different compared with the one we had in the times the novel was written. But in the interview we saw, the author said that when he wrote the story, he knew what he was writing.

    The message in the novel is the defense of the human rights, seriously violated in fatelessnes; and the idea of not repeting the mistakes the humanity did in the past, like the idea of the ideal race of Hitler. Different perople around the world may get message in a different way, but is the same and the author knew what he was transmiting when he wrote the novel.

2.- We see the novel fatelessness as very explicit, and as easy to get the main idea, and although the are a little bit hidden, we think we can get them easily and this can be percieved as an advantage because it is easier to get. But the story involves global cultural issues we rarely percieve, so did we understand the real thing Imre Kertesz wanted us to get.

     That is why we could see this as a disadvantage, everybody wants to be informed of what is happening around us, but when we can not get that because the real message is to hard to understand, it becomes a disadvantage for us. It is also a disadvantage that the novel presents itself as another Holocaust story, because it makes us think that we get the message and point of view expressed in the novel, when maybe it is not true.

3.-   In the novel fatelessness the narratives techniques used force us to put in the main characters place, and the point of view of gyuri changes in the story keeps going on. At the beggining is very naive and full of hope, and it ends in a completely fateless and the difference between the beggining of the story of the end is a very useful technique to make us realize the real effect the Holocaust had in the kid. 

  In this sense the author is very creative to seduce the readers and make the story easier to get. Emotionally speaking, the way it affects our minds, is the result of the creativity of the author and the contrast of the beggining and the end of the story and the new way the main character stars seeing life.

4.- The main theme in fatelessness is the Holocaust, so to unserstant the ideas, it is almost necessary to know what all this is about. We may understand the story in general, but just like in a lot of novels, having context is very important. Without history knowledge of the Second World War, a lot of things that are directly related with this in the story could not be understood by most of the readers. Names, cultures, places that we need to get order to understand what the author wants us to get.

    Of course it is possible to understand the story without the Holocaust and its atrocities, but in that case the reader is not getting the real message of the novel Fatelessness.

Fatelessness trailer link

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=05rCtEJgVls&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D05rCtEJgVls%26feature%3Dyoutu.be

Gyuri`s mind

1) At this point, Gyuri stills thinking  like an innocent child. He sees things in a very positive way.

2) 13 years old chilren focus in things they are interested in, like videogames. This is because they usually focus thing that can provide fan, so they in general see things they have fan with.

3) He mixes his feeling with language, so he focus things in a more positive way than he shouls, in a naive way.

4) It is not reliable at all, he shows everything with a lot of hope, while the theme of the book is fatelessness.

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.