Sunday, October 28, 2012

Chapter 1 Analysis


1-.What characters are introduced in this chapter?
There are many characters introduced in this chapter. First we’ve got Gerg Koves, how is the protagonist and the one how tells the story. Second we have other important characters such as Mr. Suto (how is an employee of the family), Stepmother and Uncle Willie. Then we’ve got other characters like Annemarie, Andrew Lajos, etc…

2-. Choose two characters and select a quote to describe them physically or phychologically.
Mr. Suto: “Yellowish red light-spots were dancing like bursting pustules all over his round, brownish-skinned features, with the pencil moustache and the tiny gap between his two broad, while front teeth.”
Georg: “Being a big boy, now in my  fifteenth year(…)”

3-. What is the narrative technique?
Point of View: Narrator in first person. (“now in my fifteenth year”)
Narrator: Indirect he doesn’t approaches to the reader. (“It occurred to my stepmother that she had forgotten to redeem the bread aoupon.”)
Speech: Reported. (“It occurred to my stepmother that she had forgotten to redeem the bread aoupon.”)
Tense: past tense (“I didn’t go to school today”)

4-. Describe the setting of this chapter.
Budapest at the Second World War, Jewish normal life is affected because of the invation of Germany.

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