Cumulative Test practice

Writing Tasks

Take a stand and develop arguments that support the following ideas statements

1. Fatelessness has a message and it is something that Imre Kertesz never thought or considered when he was writing his novel. Write between 150 and 200 words

From my point of view, the statement raised is true, and the story of the book has a hidden message behind it. In my opinion, the message that the story gives is to stop the discrimination. Along the whole story we can see that in the Holocaust the discrimination against the Jewish and many other races was excessive.
In my special case, the story of the book caused a feeling of sadness for the Jewish people specially. Gyurka, the main character, suffers like hell in the concentration camp because of this unmeasured discrimination. I think that the discrimination in general is bad, but the discrimination in the story  exceeded the limits. Before reading the book, I knew about the holocaust and what happened, but after reading it, I could realize the feelings that all the  discriminated people had, so now I understand  the feelings of the Jewish people thanks to the hidden message in the book.


It is hard/easy to understand the points of view expressed in Fatelessness. It is likely to be a cultural problem/advantage mainly. Write between 150 and 200.

From my point of view, its easy to understand the points of view expressed in the novel.
Firstly, I think that its easy because the protagonist is the one that is telling us the story, so we can make an idea of what Gyurka is passing through.
Also, I think that there is also a cultural issue. In our culture, we study the Second World War, and in some specific schools they study the Holocaust in a more detailed way, so that things can help us to understand easily the feelings involved in the story.
Lastly, the other thing that I think that us fundamental to understand the feeling in an easily way is that we, in our culture here in latin America, have had also many wars. Specificly in my country, Chile, we have for example, the war of the Mapuches against the chilean army. It wasn't exactly like the Holocaust that the Jewis were killed, but it was like an "invasion" to the Mapuche people. So,
with these cultural elements that we had, also like Germany with the Second World War and the Holocaust, can help us to understand easily the feelings developed in the story.


Fatelessness has different narrative techniques that seduce and affect our minds. Write between 150 and 200 words.

From my opinion, the statement is true, the novel has different narrative techniques. The author, using these techniques, can keep us hooked in the book. These techniques help to be hooked it what is going to happen, and all these sort of things, so it makes the book more interesting and also create a sensation that we "have" to read the book, to know what is going to happen.
From another point of view, these techniques that the author uses helps him to make the novel more easily to understand and also more calling. With these techniques, we can understand more easily the feelings that has Gyurka, also we feel sad for Gyurka and the situation through which is passing, and these is possible thanks to the techniques that the author uses.
Lastly, the specific technique of use a protagonist narrator, I think that is the most important. It makes us feel identificated with the character because he is saying what is happening and the feeling he is is developing, so it also makes the story more realistic because is a personal perspective.



The Holocaust and its atrocities have helped us understand Fatelessness much more. The context is a key factor in the creation process of a story. Write between 150 and 200 words.

I am completely agree with the statement. I think that the context is fundamental in writing a book. The context is what sets the idea of the book, saying it in some way.
In the specific case of Fatelessness, the context is the key factor that develops the story. Indeed, the story of Fatelessness is based on the context in which the book was wrote. Without the Holocaust, the story wouldn't exist, I think. The story is developed in the Holocaust, and also the conflict is developed with this events.

Because the story is a real one, the context of this one is what develops it. The Holocaust is the main topic explored in the story, how did Gyurka survive, what feelings developed him during this events, how the Jewish people were discriminated, etc. In other words, the novel, in general, is about the Holocaust and it atrocities.
In conclusion, the context of a book is fundamental to write it, and knowing about this is essencial to understand the story completely, because without knowing about the context, is so much difficult to understand it, and also to enjoy it.