Fatelessness- Irme Kertesz Chapter 1 Tone/Atmosphere: Normal kid, calm tone, almost as if the story could take place today. Chapter starts off with him missing school to see his father sent to a labor camp. After his father gets deported, he hopes that the rest of the day will be normal. Symbols/Ideas: The idea of Judaism. Uncle Lajos (tries to) force Georg into praying for his father, telling him that he’s part of a Jewish fabric, and how we are now appeasing G-d for past sins.
Developmental stage and History of family Both adults in the family are in their thirty’s and are in Erickson’s Developmental stage of Intimacy vs. stagnation according to Erickson this stage is to form intimate loving relationships with other people. The daughters are in the school age stage which states that children need to cope with new social and academic demands and success leads to a sense of competence. The mother’s father is still living whom she was estranged from for 2 years and starting to reconcile over the past three months. The
He was unpopular and a loner and was not even liked by his teachers. According to Fisher, he hated farm labor and used every trick in the book to avoid his share of the chores (p. 4). He was known to be a slacker and had a tendency to lie. From early youth through adolescence, it was clear to everyone that Ed lacked any interest in religion and “living the good Amish life” (Fisher, 2000, p. 4). By 1985, Ed’s father built a sawmill and Bishop Shetler, the spiritual and social leader of this Amish community, gave Mr. Gingerich permission to supply building material to the community.
The major conflict is Jerry’s refusal to sell chocolates at the school chocolate sale. He refuses to sell the chocolate so Brother Leon gets mad at him because he sole 0 chocolates. An example is Brother Leon told the Vigils “ I need the Vigils to punish Jerry” (78; ch. 3). The point of view is told from the third person omniscient narrator who skips from character to character, revealing a number of characters’ thoughts and actions.
Ellie Would study Jewish prayers, Talmud, during the day, and at night he would run to the synagogue to cry about the destruction of the temple. He was very eager to learn Kaballah, despite being too young for it. His father wouldn’t teach it to him, nor would he find someone to teach it to him, so Moishe the Beadle decided to dedicate his time to teach it to him. Although Wiesel didn't know why he spent his time being so religious, it was natural to him, like “breathing.” As the story progressed, all the Jews were expelled from Sighet, and one of those Jews was Moishe the Beadle. Luckily he got to escape from the Nazis, but after seeing inhuman and cruel actions from the Nazis, such as tossing up babies and using them as shooting practice targets, he came back a completely different person.
Eliezer prayed that he will never behave as Rabbi Eliahu’s son behaves. However, his father was sick. One officer told him that did not forget that you are in a concentrate camp. It is everyone man for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even your father.
Elie’s father was not in favor of allowing Elie to study Jewish mysticism and had refused to be his mentor. “Your too young for that. Maimonides tells us that one must be thirty before venturing into the world of mysticism. You must first study the basic subjects, those you are able to understand.” (Wiesel 4) Elie was disappointed, but out of respect towards his father he absorbed the situation for what it was. When the two had first arrived at Auschwitz, his father begins to cry.
What are you first impressions of Willie and how does Miller create sympathy for him from the outset of the play? At the beginning of the play, Arthur Miller establishes Willy Loman as a troubled and misguided man, at heart a salesman and a dreamer. He emphasizes his preoccupation with success. However, Miller makes it equally apparent that Willy Loman is not a successful man. Although in his sixties, he is still a traveling salesman bereft of any stable location or occupation, and clings only to his dreams and ideals.
He never could quite figure out how to balance his studies with his love of the theater and, more importantly, the illicit activities that could be found there. These activities were far more interesting to him than poking around in dead bodies, but his father insisted that he follow in his footsteps. Then one day word came about a new outbreak of the plague in London, followed swiftly by the news that his entire family had succumbed to the sickness. Alone, penniless, and expelled from the university, he did what he could to survive but he had no actual skills to speak of other than the small amount of information he had managed to glean from the lectures he bothered to attend. Using the last of his money he purchased the costume of a plague doctor and passed himself off as an established, well educated physician.
It is almost like it is ignored in the film. While everything is being played as a game in this concentration camp, the Jewish religion fades away as the game goes on in the film. Guido maintains this story right until the end when, in the chaos of shutting down the camp as the Americans approach, he tells Joshua, his son, to stay in a sweatbox until everyone has left. Guido tells Joshua that this is the final competition before the tank is his for winning the game. Guido tries to find Dora, his wife, but is caught by a soldier.