Fatelessness Glossary (I could not enter to your page :'( )

Würst (page 121) : liver sausage, blood sausage, and ham sausage.


Blockältester (page 132): Usually Germans, they were put in charge of the barracks by the SS.


Arbeitskommandos (page 146): were sub-camps under Prisoner-of-war camps for holding prisoners of war of lower ranks (below sergeant), who were working in industries and on farms.


PS: I COMMENTED GANDARA'S AND JANDER'S BLOGS.

Oral presentation. Monologue, Chapter 1.

Uffgh... this has been a really strange day, thank God she let me have George for today, for a moment I  thought she would not let me tell him, I dont know what I would do if he was not here.
Well it would be easier in fact, an also it would be really more painless, but that does'nt matter anymore, it's just that I can't imagine a life without him. but now it seems, that this is exactly how I am going to live, if I can call this living.

There had already passed fifteen years since George was born, and out of my wife and my family, he is the only good memory I have. Oh how I will miss everyone specially, my son and my dear.

Its tough to know that it has been hard for them to know each other. But there is something that tells me they're getting closer, at least I hope so, they will really gonna need each other.

Now that Im gone, we will really need MrSuto's loyalty and help, he is a good guy, I know he wont fail me. And if he does, I just have to be faithfull on what Lajos told me, "George is becoming a man, and he will not be alone, you can always count on me".

And when someone thinks the worst has happened, Y heard this sadly rumours, there are saying that the Nazis would start taking children and women.

I know George would handle it, he is very brave and smart, sometimes Y even feel he is raising me up. But my dear?

Oh my dear! She was already shocked out, when I told her, and I read her that damn letter:

"Mr.Koves the great fuhrer, Sir Adolph Hitler, in name of the great national socialist Germany, invokes you to an undefined service, at one of the labor camps. We must remember you that the unacomplishment of this task, is punished, with the mayor judgement."

I know she couldn't stand it, all this persecution and discrimination just because we are Jews. There's so much hate that I cant believe thisis really happening , I even sometimes think thisis a nightmare my worst nightmare.

I guess the pain im going to feel at labor service will vanish out this thought.

It's hard to admit it but maybe im starting losing my faith in God. Afterall we dont need a hell, we already have one on Earth.

Or why has God chosen this destiny for me?

Is it that im a bad person and this is what I deserve? Or maybe is just that the Aryan race, is actually the perfect race and God just have eyes for them?

Now I better go to sleep, tomorrow as it seems imposible, it will be a worst day. Sometimes I think..
and sadly I cant deny it, that everything tells me that we are Fateless.

Chapter 2 Vicente Jander, Matias Neuweiler, José Tomas Leyton

Chapter 2 Vicente Jander, Matias Neuweiler, José Tomas Leyton

1) What characters are introduced?

The Fleischmanns, the two Annamarie's friends and the Steiners.


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

Uncle Lajos: "We must accept God's ordinances in regard to us, at which she held her tounge".
So it is deduced that Lajos is a very religious person, one that handles Hebrew well.

Annamarie's friend: "We Jews are different from other people".
This quote gives a psychological profile of the character, one that realized that Jews were being excluded from society; so this character is a melancholi, realistic one.


3) What is the narrative technique? Provide evidence.

The narrator is in first person, and it is a protagonist narrator too: all the book is told in the perspective of George Koves. "This evening I was with her in the other room to look..." (Page 33)

4) Describe the setting of this chapter.

The setting is: Csespel, George's city of origin: Budapest (in which we can find his house and Annamarie's). The season was Summer. It was in the middle of WWII.

Nazi Propaganda

What political message(s) are these pictures trying to convey?

The message is that nazis cant stop all the bad things, the Jewish people are doing, because the snake with the David star represents the jewish people and , the redwords coming from the snake are: usury, Versailles, unemployment, war guilt lie, Marxism, Bolshevism, lies and betrayal, inflation, Locarno, Dawes Pact, Young Plan, corruption, Barmat, Kutistker, Sklarek (the last three Jews involved in major financial scandals), prostitution, terror, civil war.

What image of Germans are these pictures trying to convey?

It shows a very strong image of nazis because they are representing by a strong sword and they are being “just” also because they are supposely killing the villain.

How do they portray this image?

 What colors are used?

They used very strong colors suck as the red, white, and black, and very strong elements also such as blood, a snake and a sword.

How do the people look?

Unfortunately there is no people on this image.

What characteristics of these men are similar?

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How do the artists convey these characteristics?

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Fatelessness-Chapter 1

In the first chapter of Fatelessness, the Father of Georg is informed that he has to leave his home, for an undefined service at one of the Nazi's labor camps, the whole chapters show us the preamble for the stay of Father at the labor camp, in which he meets Mr.Suto an employee of Father's lumberyard and he was assigned to take care of all the valuable stuff of the Koves, the chapter ends whith a family meeting in wich the Koves are visited by several uncles and in-laws but the most relevant one is uncle Lajos because this one means a very important part for Georg's formation, while Father will be absent, the chapters ends whith the last thoughts of Georg about that day, in which we can see a promise that he cant remember.