Fatelessness: Chapter 2

I worked with my good friend Victor Vasquez.

1.- What characters are introduced?

Uncles Willie and Lajos

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

Uncle Lajos: psychologically; page 29, 1^st paragraph

Annamarie: psychologically; page 33, 1^st paragraph

3.- What is the narrative technique? Provide evidence

1^st person and shown throughout the chapter, by mentioning himself as I and not as another character.

4. Describe the setting of this chapter

Summer, workplace, Fleichmann’s place, Georg’s place, war time.

Analyze the following quote (p.28)

"The workplace is in Csepel at a company called The "Shell Petroleum Refinery Works" As a result, I have actually acquired a privilege of sorts, since under any other circumstances those wearing  yellow stars are prohibited from traveling outside the city limits. I, however, was handed legitimate identity papers, bearing the official stamp of the war production commander, which provide that i "may cross the Csepel customs borderline."

What can you say about the perspective and mood of the narrator in this extract, and how is it in contrast with the title of the book?

In this situation, the narrator feels empowered at the moment he got the identity papers, because these papers allowed him to trespass city limits, so he get the feeling that he is no longer controlled and repressed (but he still is). This is a brief moment of hope in the narrator’s story, so it represents a contrast to the book’s title, because, to himself, he is no longer fateless