Fatelessness Reading Task

Fatelessness Chapter 1 Analysis

1)What characters are introduced this chapter?

In this chapter, many characters were introduced: Mr Suto, Gyuri, Gyuri's Father, Gyuri's Mother and Stepmother, also his Grandfather and Grandmother, the shopkeeper and his wife, the baker, Uncle Willie, etc.

2) Choose two characters and select a quote to describe them physically or psychologically.

Grandmother: "Even wearing spectacles with bottle-thick lenses she is blind as a bat and just as deaf to boot".


Uncle Willie: "His head is pear-shaped, broad, bulging, and bald on top, but narowing ate the cheeks and toward the chin", "His views are listened to with respect in the family".


3) What narrative technique? Provide evidence.

In terms of narrative technique, the first one to notice is the First Person narration, as the main character narrates the story on his point of view. This can be seen on the text when Gyuri, the narrator says: "I didn`t head home." Also the story is narrated in past tense as shown in the following quote: "I also handed him" and also in the past quote.


4) Describe the setting of this chapter

This chapter took place in Budapets, Hungary, where the main character, Gyuri, and his Jewish family are having a bad time because of his Father going to war. The context is previous of the "Holocaust", at the begining of the II World War on which Jews were seen like a "plague". On this chapter whe can see this very detailed as how the family went to different places and the treat to Jewish was very bad (Ex: They received half of bread), and also that the Jewish family shared some place. All of this makes a sad mood and prepares the readers to what should come next.

Analysis

Important info: How communism twist the reality, killing jews, identity, fate.
audience: people who wants to know what really happened in the concentration camps, or in that era, social studies interested people, historians, etc.
inform, explain by his point of view, persuade the people of how some politicians or countries twist the reality, ommit information, entertain, compare, etc.

Essay 2.0

“Some third culture kids have nothing beyond their passports to connect them with their home country. TCKs lose and gain from the fact that they grow up outside their passport country."

We can affirm this because TCK's have many cultures in one, by that they don't feel completely part of any, because of this we can say that they have nothing beyond their passports to connect them with their home country as their beliefs, education, etc. are given from a different culture.

In terms of gain and loses from the fact they grow up outside their passport country, we can say that they gain an open-minded view of the world, they learn to be more comprehensive with other cultures and ideals, they are good to realize the social problems in the society they are part, they can compare between the different lifestyles, etc. Because of this, usually TCKs have an important role or position in political structures on differents countries, as they can realize and help the society with their problems. One example of this is Barack Obama which is the president of United States and also he is  TCK.

About the lose, we can say that they are very lonely as they don't feel part of any culture, they don't know much about they "passport country", also usually as they don't feel part of the society, they tend to became friends of another TCK's.

To conclude, we can say that TCK don't connect much with they country of origin, they don't know about it, they also don't learn much there or maybe they didn't even live there, and maybe they aren't interested on their origin country, because of this they called it "passport country". Because of they they have some gain and loses which really affects who they are.

Number of words: 269

Travel Writing

Visit to Maycomb in the 30´s

 

I came back to Maycomb, Alabama, in the 30`s,  and I saw what It used to be, "Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town". Firstly, I was amazed because of the architecture as I didn't remembered it, the typical house look, shared by everyone, this included: gable dormers, eave dentils, doric pilasters, the porch, etc. but with different orientations, or size, made me feel like I was back in home. As I kept walking in the town, I start to sense a patron in all of the people, they were all wearing bad looking clothes, wrinkled, they all seemed very poor which made feel very bad, as I had forgotten how harsh was life in that time, but suddenly I heard the sound of an a amazing car coming by the street and as it came closer I figured out it was my favorite car, the Cadillac Twelve, but that made me feel the incredible difference between economic and social strata. Anyways, after a while I asked the owner if I can go for a ride, and inside the car, while driving, I saw an incredible look of the town, people were very happy even with the finance problems, kids were playing in the streets, life seemed to be beautiful, but all this changed as I was coming back, I saw all the neighborhood screaming and throwing things towards an Afro-American woman, this discrimination to the black lady was a shock for me as It was very hard to tolerate. Finally, after I came back to my house, I felt the emotions of all the day, the nostalgia was running throught my mind, I wanted to get back to Maycomb, but the idea of discrimination made me angry. Anyways I had a really good time and I am wishing to come back.
 
Numbers of words: 307

Link to My Scientific language presentation

My Scientific language presentation can be seen here:


https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7uhd2LgGf5QaWMtbF9hVGxzcms/edit?usp=sharing

Questions "to kill a mockingbird" Part2

a)  If Miss Caroline is NOT an important character in the story, how does the author effectively use Miss Caroline’s character in chapters 2 and 3 to introduce important background information about other characters and the setting  of Maycomb in the 1930s?  Describe using examples from the text.

The author effectively use Miss Caroline in chapters 2 and 3 to introduce important background information about other characters and the setting of Maycomb in the 1930s because as she wasn't from the zone, and she dind't knew anybody, she started asking questions to their students and that gave use information of the different realities and how do the people in maycob live.

B)  Imagine you were Miss Caroline after her first day teaching.  Write a brief letter to your family in Winston County describing your day.  (1 paragraph)
                                                                        
                                                                                        20-05-2013

Dear Family,

I am writing you from Maycomb to inform you that I am fine and survived my first day here. I mean "survived" as it was a very hard day, I figured out that this education here is worst than I thought, some kids dind't wanted to study and left the class, others were very dirt, but the case that took more my attention was a poor girl called Jean Louise Finch, she thought she knew how to read and write as it seemed someone taught her but I am not sure if what she learned is good and also she is still not in age to do that things, I must take action on this. Many other bad things happens but finally the day came to an end. I am hoping this week will be better.

Wish you my best,
Caroline.

Essay

"We are unaware that we are communicating in many different ways even when we are not speaking.. we are rarely taught about this non-verbal form of communication in school... we informally learn how to use gesturees, glances, slight changes in tone of voice, ... to alter or emphasize what we say and do... we learn these culture-bound techniques largely by observing others and imitating them."

There are many ways of communicating, and we use them every day,  even if we are unaware of it, because we learn them unconsciously.

When we speak, we usually do some tone variations or start to shout to make what we say more interesting, also you can see in many speechs that the speakers use some gestures to get to audiencie, for example when talking about taking action in a problem, they point to the audience so they can feel their responsability on the problem. Also there are more ways of communicating that appear when we try to express our selves..

To conclude, we can affirm that there is a non-verbal forms of communication that we unconsciously use, these may vary between different cultures as the cultures are the ones who teach us this.