Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Language Analysis: Fatelessness

Pages 90-91
Main theme explored here: uncertainty

Quotes:
"Just one thing was rather missing, I realized: the fact that I saw no sign of movement, of life, around them"
"Going farther, we also saw some houses, the sams ones that had already noticed from the station"
"...and between them, to my delight wonder, I saw small seedbeds and cabbage patches, with flowers of assorted colors beijg grown in the plots"

In these two pages, we can appreciate that Gyurka is beeing taken to the concentration camp. He is watching everyhting around, trying to figure out what is going on, or where are they taking him. The author use many specific words an sentences to describe the place (through Gyurka), and this helps the reader to understant throughwhat situation is going Gyurka, and also we can imagine the place with all this description, a lugubrious and lonely place, that helps to give the uncertainty to the setting.
Pages 180, 181, 182, 183, 184 and 185

Main theme explored here: suffering / desperation

"Made me shudder even more"
"We were also taken to the doctor less frequently"
"On top of that, not long afterward a pain started on my left hip followed by the non familiar flaming red sac"
Incision
Unpleasantness
"Everyone here had a sallow face and large, burning eyes"
"The end seemed predictable, not to say anticipated"
"The biggest surprise of all was the consternation, then horror, of feeling a sudden tickling sensation on my hip and then, on lifting the paper bandage, seeing they were now on my open flesh feeding on the wound"
"My sense of revulsion"
"I gave up and just watched the gluttony, the teeming, the voracy, the appetite, the unconcealed happiness..."

In this quotes, we can see that Gyurka is in the place where the sick people were taken. He is suffering because of his knee and also the little "worms" that were eating in the wound. His is also suffering because the onditions of the place were very bad, and he could see the other sick people that were also suffering. Many times he mentions the idea of giving up and die. With this elements the author causes a mood of sadness in the reader, that make emphasis in the story.

Pages 138 and 139

Main theme explored here: language and communication (different languages) / discrimination

Quotes:
"Their first question was "Rayds di yiddish?". When I told them that, no, unfortunately I didn't, that was it as far as they were concerned, I became  nonperson, they looked at me as if I were thin air, or rather didn't exist at all." 
"Among one another and with the Latvians they use Yiddish, but they also speak German, Slovakian, and a smatering of who knows what, only not Hungarian"

With this quotes we can see that language was fundamental to survive, and they were so different that Gyurka sometimes didn't understand what was happening. Also, we can see that if you didn´t know the language, the germans saw you like an insignificant thing, so the language can have influence in the dicrimination that the Jewis people were receiving.

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