Class Activity: correction of the classmate's letter

When you receive your classmate's letter (1 or 2), read it and answer he following questions:

What language (specific words) did your classmate to appeal the audience? If there is no language appealing the audience, suggest some words.

• Dear Gyurka
• I think of you
• With all our uncles
• You remember 
• You and my wife
• Please send greetings to our neighbours
• I love you

How moving is the letter? Do you think that your classmate's style is effective?

I think that the letter is very moving and effective, because it uses some elements that call the attention. For example, in the letter he includes the suffering of the father of Gyurka, and that suffering causes a feeling of sadness in the reader for him. Also, Rodrigo included in the letter the in memories of the father. That memories are useful to understand the father's desire to return to Budapest, and also it explains in a ore detailed way what are the things that the father is missing from his house. Continuing with this aspect, also Rodrigo included a joke that the uncle tols and that the father remembers, this aspect causes more feelings in the reader, and makes the letter more moving. The last point that I think that makes the letter moving is that Rodrigo included the father's desire to suicide sometimes, and that helps the reader to understand the greatness of the father's suffering.


Explain to what extent the letter includes elements of context and time

From the letter, we can infer that the context is in a concentration or labour camp, because of the details that are included of the hate to the Jews an the few food that the germans gave to them.
In the letter there are not specific words that tell us what is the time, but we can infer it. We can infer that is in the Holocaust, because the letter says something about the hate to the Jews, and also the few food that they could eat. With this we can infer that the time is the Second World War, specifically the Holocaust.