Fatelessness Chapter 1 Analysis

For analyzing the first chapter of Fatelessness, we answered some questions related to it.

Questions:

1.  What characters are introduced in this chapter?
2. Choose two characters and select a quote to describe them physically or psychologically.
3. What is the narrative technique? Provide evidence
4. Describe the setting of this chapter

Answers:

1. Georg Koves, Mr Sütó, Annamarie, Georg's Father, Mother and stepmother, Granparents, and other members of his family, the Baker and his wife.

2. Uncle Willie: "His head is pear shaped, broad, bulging, and bald on top, but narrowing at the cheeks and toward the chin". (page 17)
Mr Sütó: "Yellowish red light-spots were dancing like busting pustules all over his round, brownish-skinned features with the pencil mustache and the tiny gap between his two broad, white front teeth" (page 6).

3. Point of View: Narrator in First Person. ("I didn't go to school today" page 3.)

Narration: Indirect. ("We were already on the upper floor when it occurred to my stepmother that she had forgotten to redeem the bread coupon. I had to go back to the baker's." page 12)Speech: Reported. ("We were already on the upper floor when it occurred to my stepmother that she had forgotten to redeem the bread coupon. I had to go back to the baker's." page 12)Tense: Past tense. ("I didn't go to school today" page 3.)

4. Budapest, Hungary, WWII, Holocaust, Nazi Regime.