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Fateless c.1
1.- Which perspective (positive or negative) does the author of the review have towards FATELESSNESS? Provide evidence.
2.- According to the review, in which ways does FATELESSNESS make readers empathize with the main character of the story?
3.-In the second paragraph of this review, we are presented the plot of the story. Is this enough information to engage you as a reader? Does it provide an effective invitation to read "FATELESSNESS"? Justify
Positive. The author tells us that this novel helps us empathize with other
perspectivas, and we have the perspective of Georg, a 14 year old jewish boy in
the time of the holocaust. I think this vision of the war will be interesting
and as he is almost our age we will empathize with him
It makes s empathize because we are shown a different World,
in a different time, se we have to try to understand it as much as possible,
and try to think why the caracters do what they do and think how they think
3.-In the second paragraph of this review, we are presented the plot of the story. Is this enough information to engage you as a reader? Does it provide an effective invitation to read "FATELESSNESS"? Justify
Yes, because I am introduced to something that I had not encountered before, the perspective of a jewish adolescent in the second world war. There is always talks of the second world war, but few are about the feelings an emotions an adolescent (being this already a complicated stage of life) may have encountered during this time.
Written task: LETTER
I miss you
15 September 1944
1245 Striker Street.
Dear Georg:
Hello son, it is been somtime since I am far from home, and I can not put into words how much I miss being home with you and your stepmother.Tell her that I love her, you now I love you too. Being far from home has been a torture in my mind. I never though I would be separated from you for so long, and I never though it would be so hard for me to be away from you. I feel so sad since I am here, first, thre was all this place here, it is a gloomy and sad place, it has a dark atmosphere. Then, it was the way the nazis treated us. Since we arrived we have been treated like animals. They took a lot ofour posessions and beat us like if we owed them something. They put us all in small rooms, sharing them with more people, too much people, making our rest time uncomfortable and annoying . Then, on the daytime we are forced to work, like if we were going back to the times were the black community was used as slaves, wit the difference that this time is not the black community the most affected but the jewish community. I don`t know why there is so much hate towards the jewish. Did we behaved incorrectly or acted incorrectly towards someone?
The works we have been forced to do are hard and very demanding. We have to save our energy and during the night try to have a good sleep so we can recover our energy. Also, we have to rationate the few food that we receive everyday, in order to stay focused and concentrate in our labor. The ones that don`t work correctly during the day are beaten up and sent away. I don`t know were are they sent, but I haven`t see anyone of the ones that were sent away again, and that scares me very much.Maybe they are just sent to other camps, but something in the way the nazis act makes me think that they send people to die, probably in an horrible way and slow way.
My tired and fatiged body works only fueled by my fear of being taken away just like the others were. So, as you may think, everyday there are less of us being obligated to work, and we have to harder everyday in order to try to equalize the work done by the ones taken away. These days we have been forced to dig a giant hole in one of the courtyards of the labor camp, and I don`t know what is the purpose of that hole, but I don`t have a good feeling about it. We have digged a lot, but the nazis want us to dig more and more, and the purpose of it has me puzzled. You may wonder what do we do besides working everyday, and the answer is very simple, we are not allowed to do anything that is not scheduled by them. We have to go to our rooms after working and stay there until the next day and do the same thing. It`s the same process over and over again. I am lucky that they did not took away my notebook and my pencil, if not I would not be able to write this letter to you. To tell you the truth this letter is a kind of alleviation, a relief. I feel like all this routine is destroying my mind, if I do not find a way out or something to do. I am afraid I will loose my mind ang go insane. But I don`t want you to worry about my mind. I know that sooner or later I will be set free from here. I did not told you about the food we have to eat It makes me really miss the way your stepmother cooked. The food here is grose, it is a kind of gray pasta, but it is the only thing that we can eat, and I prefer to eat than to die of hunger.
The only good things I can say about is this situation haves are that I have met some very very good and interesting people, maybe I can say that they and you two there at home are the things that keep my spirit and soul alive. The other good thing I can think about is that this situation made me realize how important and how much I love you and your stepmother.
I just want you to know that I will keep on working until I find a way to get out of here, I won`t stop until I am back home with you and your stepmother. I miss you a lot and I promise you I will go back home.
My language isn`t particular one, I just used words and a structure in wich I could express and write what I wanted as clear as I could, as I needed to express feelings and emotions from Georg`s father to Georg, one thing that is not that easy.I founded it ti be hard, in a way that I wasn`t sure what emotions and when to put them. About the title is simple, just "I miss you", because it`s been some time since they were together. As the letter goes by Georg`s father describes him how they were treated, how did they lived and what were the routines, explining all the context, including his feelings and fears.
The works we have been forced to do are hard and very demanding. We have to save our energy and during the night try to have a good sleep so we can recover our energy. Also, we have to rationate the few food that we receive everyday, in order to stay focused and concentrate in our labor. The ones that don`t work correctly during the day are beaten up and sent away. I don`t know were are they sent, but I haven`t see anyone of the ones that were sent away again, and that scares me very much.Maybe they are just sent to other camps, but something in the way the nazis act makes me think that they send people to die, probably in an horrible way and slow way.
My tired and fatiged body works only fueled by my fear of being taken away just like the others were. So, as you may think, everyday there are less of us being obligated to work, and we have to harder everyday in order to try to equalize the work done by the ones taken away. These days we have been forced to dig a giant hole in one of the courtyards of the labor camp, and I don`t know what is the purpose of that hole, but I don`t have a good feeling about it. We have digged a lot, but the nazis want us to dig more and more, and the purpose of it has me puzzled. You may wonder what do we do besides working everyday, and the answer is very simple, we are not allowed to do anything that is not scheduled by them. We have to go to our rooms after working and stay there until the next day and do the same thing. It`s the same process over and over again. I am lucky that they did not took away my notebook and my pencil, if not I would not be able to write this letter to you. To tell you the truth this letter is a kind of alleviation, a relief. I feel like all this routine is destroying my mind, if I do not find a way out or something to do. I am afraid I will loose my mind ang go insane. But I don`t want you to worry about my mind. I know that sooner or later I will be set free from here. I did not told you about the food we have to eat It makes me really miss the way your stepmother cooked. The food here is grose, it is a kind of gray pasta, but it is the only thing that we can eat, and I prefer to eat than to die of hunger.
The only good things I can say about is this situation haves are that I have met some very very good and interesting people, maybe I can say that they and you two there at home are the things that keep my spirit and soul alive. The other good thing I can think about is that this situation made me realize how important and how much I love you and your stepmother.
I just want you to know that I will keep on working until I find a way to get out of here, I won`t stop until I am back home with you and your stepmother. I miss you a lot and I promise you I will go back home.
Love,
Your father
Rationale
I chose to write a letter from Ggeorg`s father to him while Georg`s father is in a labor camp forced to work. I though that doing this was the best approach to express the feelings and emotions you develop by being a prisioner forced to work and full of fear about your life.
The audience of this novel and this work I did are all the people interested in the people from the Jewish community during the second world war, the persons that want to know more about the emotions, feelings and thoughs, not only the facts. If we go straight to the letter probably the only one that will read it will be Georg and maybe his stepmother.
My language isn`t particular one, I just used words and a structure in wich I could express and write what I wanted as clear as I could, as I needed to express feelings and emotions from Georg`s father to Georg, one thing that is not that easy.I founded it ti be hard, in a way that I wasn`t sure what emotions and when to put them. About the title is simple, just "I miss you", because it`s been some time since they were together. As the letter goes by Georg`s father describes him how they were treated, how did they lived and what were the routines, explining all the context, including his feelings and fears.lunes, 29 de octubre de 2012
image analysis
The image shows us a man trying to reach the fence that takes away his freedom. It makes me feel sad, because he wants to go out, he wants to go home but he can`t, he is forced to be there without deserving it. I think it evokes sadness and desperation, seeing freedom so close but knowing you can`t reach it, and knowing that you are probably going to die horribly.clip analysis question of pride and prejudice
1. Why do you think "Pride and Prejudice" continues to be a referent for modern tales?
2. What do you think is the effect that these different authors (film directors, producers, modern writers) want to achieve in today's audiences?
3. If you had to choose one of the previous versions to analyse, which would be the one and why?
1.- Because I think it`s a kind of story that keeps happening now a days and with wich we can relate.
2.- Give the films a fresh and new air, not being all the time the same thing but putting in them some different elements
3.-Bridget Jones diary, because I think it will be the funniest one.
Women emncipation p. 287-288
1.-What degrees of emancipation and/or conservative reinforcement of 18th century family values does Elizabeth Bennett`s marriage to Mr. Darcy?
In the emancipation I think it reflects a little bit in the way that Elizabeth didn`t liked Mr. Darcy in the beggining and so she woulkd refuse to marry him if he asked. In the conservative 18th century ways it could be the marriage still being the main goal of women.
2.- What attitudes to marriage does Pride and Prejudice convey? What other opinions did Elizabeth had?
The main attitude I think would be that you don`t have to marry someone if you don`t want to, and so does Elizabeth, refusing to marry Mr. Collins because she doesn`t like him.
3.-How does this introduction affect your reading and approach to the novel?
This gives me an idea on what was the social and cultural context of the novel, so now it will help me understand some decisions of the characters and also some attitudes.
4.-How coul the social circumstances and contexts of Pride and Prejudice apply to different cultures and context today?
Now a days we can say that women do the same amount of things than men, so they did emancipated almost completely, but still there are some cultures where men is more powerful than women and were marriages are still arranged, for example in South Korea.
In the emancipation I think it reflects a little bit in the way that Elizabeth didn`t liked Mr. Darcy in the beggining and so she woulkd refuse to marry him if he asked. In the conservative 18th century ways it could be the marriage still being the main goal of women.
2.- What attitudes to marriage does Pride and Prejudice convey? What other opinions did Elizabeth had?
The main attitude I think would be that you don`t have to marry someone if you don`t want to, and so does Elizabeth, refusing to marry Mr. Collins because she doesn`t like him.
3.-How does this introduction affect your reading and approach to the novel?
This gives me an idea on what was the social and cultural context of the novel, so now it will help me understand some decisions of the characters and also some attitudes.4.-How coul the social circumstances and contexts of Pride and Prejudice apply to different cultures and context today?
Now a days we can say that women do the same amount of things than men, so they did emancipated almost completely, but still there are some cultures where men is more powerful than women and were marriages are still arranged, for example in South Korea.
Three quotes analysis
3 quotes from chapter 3 of fatelessness:
1.- "I was beggining to think that maybe he didn`t understand the ID, and was just on the point of explaining to him that, as he could see, I am assigned to war work and most certainly could not afford to have my time wasted, when all at once the road around me was thronged with voices and boys, my companions from Shell".
Here is shown that know almost all jewish people are forced to do something. Georg is only 14 and he is assigned to war work. Another thing that can be noticed in this quote is that it seems that all the jewish boys are being stoped and have to wait for something, a sign of the different treatment that they received.
2.-" All the same I once asked him what he found so great about smoking so much, to wich he gave me the curt reply: "It`s cheaper than food" "
It`s evident in this quote that the man that was talking to Georg doesn`t have much money, so he smokes to replace eating, in that way he spends less money. Probably the war times were very poor times, as the money was destined to go for weapons and war and not for the people.
3.- (P.57) "he turned toward the gendarmes, ordering them , in a bellow that filled the entire square, to take ”the whole Jewish rabble” off the place that, in his view, they actually belonged-the, stables, that is to say-and lock them in for the night.”
Here we have an example of the discrimination against the jews. Nazis believed jews were rabble, garbage and it says in the quote that they are being sent were he thinks they belonged, to a lock stable. The discrimination didn`t have an age, it affected children and older people the same and without any reason.
1.- "I was beggining to think that maybe he didn`t understand the ID, and was just on the point of explaining to him that, as he could see, I am assigned to war work and most certainly could not afford to have my time wasted, when all at once the road around me was thronged with voices and boys, my companions from Shell".
2.-" All the same I once asked him what he found so great about smoking so much, to wich he gave me the curt reply: "It`s cheaper than food" "
It`s evident in this quote that the man that was talking to Georg doesn`t have much money, so he smokes to replace eating, in that way he spends less money. Probably the war times were very poor times, as the money was destined to go for weapons and war and not for the people.
3.- (P.57) "he turned toward the gendarmes, ordering them , in a bellow that filled the entire square, to take ”the whole Jewish rabble” off the place that, in his view, they actually belonged-the, stables, that is to say-and lock them in for the night.”
Here we have an example of the discrimination against the jews. Nazis believed jews were rabble, garbage and it says in the quote that they are being sent were he thinks they belonged, to a lock stable. The discrimination didn`t have an age, it affected children and older people the same and without any reason.
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