Analysing letters writing task

First Correction

Original Letter:

Over the past six years, each morning, as soon as my students walk in the door… I am so happy to see them again and see my classroom take on life again.

Corrected Letter:

Each morning for the past six years, I have been happy to see my students walk through the classroom door.

Explanation: 

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Second Correction

Original Letter:
It feels so natural to me to be a primary school teacher.
Corrected Letter:
Being a primary school teacher comes so naturally to me.
Explanation:

Third Correction

Original Letter:
Yet for the past few months I am longing for and thinking about a new personal challenge.
Corrected Letter:
Nevertheless for the past few months I have been contemplating a new personal challenge.
Explanation:

Fourth Correction

Original Letter:
..it is a relatively young international school and I would like to be a member of a pioneering and ambitious team.
Corrected Letter:
it is a relatively young, international school, where I could be part of a pioneering and ambitious team.
Explanation:

Fifth Correction

Original Letter:
Last, I value the fact that the experience of living in Amsterdam and the Netherlands are being used and added to within the multicultural setting of your school, as I think this city and also the Dutch culture have much to offer
Corrected Letter:
I also like the fact it is a Dutch subsidised school with competitive fees and open doors to a variety of students.
Explanation:

Sixth Correction

Original Letter:
But in view of my university education, teaching secondary school students might be a future job possibility to me.
Corrected Letter:
In view of my university education, teaching in the secondary school might be a future possibility as well.
Explanation:

Seventh Correction

Original Letter:
I am an open minded person with excellent social skills. I tolerate pressure easily.
Corrected Letter:
As a colleague you will find that I have an open mind, good social skills and an ability to handle pressure easily.
Explanation:

Eighth Correction

Original Letter:
..value would be added value to your organisation by...
Corrected Letter:
I would add value to your organisation.
Explanation: 

Essay writing task

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

Imre Kertesz never thought that his novel would have a hidden message that would make his novel even more attractive for the readers and make us get in his place. The message that he never thought that would be really connected to his novel is how the power of a person with corrupted values (the Fürer, Adolf Hitler) would be able to destroy a complete society, and his followers in the future would want those events to happen again. This way, unconsiously the author say that what happened to him and the members of his religion , or even if it happens to another must never ever happen again.

2.     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 words. 
It is easy to identify points of view as the events happen during the story but its hard to understand their meaning. Imre Kertezs shown different points of view that show the reader a better perspective of what have happened during the Holocaust to clarify that this must never happen again even if it benefits or create problems in the future generations.
Firstly, the author use his own point of view in the story to express the inter-cultural problem that was happening during the second world war, the arian race trying to exterminate everyone that was against the culture or differ from them, in other words, Imre Kertezs im

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

4.     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.

Trailer of the movie: Fateless

 You can watch it here: http://pvinesr.blogspot.com/2013/11/video.html

FATELESSNESS LANGUAGE ANALYSIS

Read pages 90 and 91

"What is the main theme explored here?"

Answer: Subordination and the lost of hope from Gyurka towards the events that have just happened (Innocense)

Find at least 3 examples (quotes) of language to justify/support your answer. In other words, find examples oflanguage that help the writer develop themes.

EXPLAIN
Quotes: "It was all very clean, tidy, and pretty." (p.90, line 11)
             "He has a full head of carefully combed, darkly glossy hair" (p.91, line 3-4)
             "I had to admit was a beautifully crafted lash." (P. 91, line 14)


Read pages 181,182,183,184,185

"What is the main theme explored here?"
Answer: Fateless


Find at least 3 examples (quotes) of language to justify/support your answer. In other words, find examples oflanguage that help the writer develop themes.

EXPLAIN
Quotes: " A more hopeless struggle"
             " An actor doing Satan on stage"
             " Everyone had sallow face and large burning eyes"

Read pages 138 and 139

"What is the main theme explored here?"
Answer: Use of language and segregation


Find at least 3 examples (quotes) of language to justify/support your answer. In other words, find examples oflanguage that help the writer develop themes.

EXPLAIN
Quotes: " I tried to speak, get myself noticed, but to no avail."
             " For example, your first deviceis stubborness:... "
             " if they see fit to give you any answer at all"

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).

Gyuri's Mind

1) Gyuri still havn't perceived what is going on, allways focusing his mind in positive things, avoiding negative scenes, always cheering himself up.

2) Today, 13 aged children usually like to speak about sports, technology advances, video-games, and many other themes that move masses today. They see they joy in a material way, aiming to achieve and adquire more and more.

3) The way he presents the world seem to be a kid's point of view, he aims for the good aspects of the worst things he can see, really optimistic way of thinking.(Maybe that is the main reason why he survives to the Holocaust).

4) Its not reliable because at his short life and the low participation he has in the society, he just can percieve the positive or external layer of everything that he see, he still doesn't take part of the Holocaust events.

Listening activity: Imre Kertesz Interview

1) The united state's artist tried to represent with the 2000 stone blocks the vulnerability of the jewish community surrounded by the unstoppable nazi party in the concentration camp. Every stone obstructs the visión of the person that passes through them so you can feel somehow the lonelyness of the jewish people in the German camps.

2) Imre says that the country that once took him off his family, harassed him for years , now is better and comfortant (in a freedom sense) tan where he lived before the camps.

3)There is neraly no difference between the past and present of the antisemitism. In the past, they wanted to eliminate the jews and any other culture that differed from the arian. Now days, the antisemitism wants a second Holocaus.

4)They help us to comprehend and understand the deeds of the human race in controvertial scenarios, and the biggest benefit and what makes us much richer is the fact that they help us to avoid the mistakes of our ancestors.

5) The real meaning of the metaphor is that while the people read the book they create in their minds a scene of the Holocaust and with the words "it knocks from inside" he means that we are unable to avoid thinking and creating conscious of what has been done in that time even if we try to block those feelings.