Fatelessness Chapter 1: Reading Task

1) What characters are introduced in this chapter?
In this chapter tha main characters introduced are Gyuri (Narrator), Gyuri's father and stepmother, grandfather and grandmother,two sisters, Mr. Sûto (shop owner), Uncle Lajos, Uncle Fleischmann, Uncle Steiner, the teacher, Annemarie.

2) Choose two characters and select a quote to describe them physically or psychologically.
-Annemarie: "She is fourteen years old, or thereabouts. She has a long neck and is already starting to round out under her yellow star" (p.13)
-Uncle Fleischmann: "Uncle Fleischmann was utterly unnoticeable beside him, being a diminutive man of immaculate appeareance, with white hair, ashen skin, owlish spectacles, and a perpetual slightly worried air on his face" (p.23)
3) What narrative technique? Provide evidence.
The technique that Imre Kertesz is the principal carácter one, and it feets perfectly to this story because he really was part of the events that happen through the story, we can see the in the first line of the text: "I didn´t go to school today.".

4) Describe the setting of this chapter.

 The setting of the story is about 1940 during WWII in Budapest, Hungary. Jews had to use a yellow star in the chest during the Holocaust to differ from non-jewish people. Gyuri's dad is about to leave to labor camps (concentration camps).