Fatelessness

Chapter 1 Questions

1.  What characters are introduced in this chapter?

In this chapter many characters are introduced like the protagonist George Koves, his father, mother and stepmother. From the family we can also consider his grandparents and many uncles (specially Uncle Lajos). We are also introduced to  Annamarie, the baker and specially Mr. Suto.

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

Uncle Fleischmann: "was utterly unnoticeable beside him [Uncle Steiner], being a diminutive man of immaculate appeareance, with white hair, ashen skin, owlish spectacles, and a perpetual slightly worried air on his face" (Page 23).

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. What is the narrative technique? 

Point of View: 1st person narrator. ("I didn't go to school today", P.3)

Narration: Indirect 

Speech: Reported

Tense: Past tense

4. Describe the setting of this chapter

The setting of this chapter is Budapest, Hungary during WWII so all jewish including George need to wear a yellow star. More specifically, we can say that the setting of the chapter is the neibourghood and George`s father house during the day before the father went to the labour camp.