1. What characters are introduced in this chapter? Georg Koves (main character), both of his parents, stepmother, Mr Süto, family relatives (Uncle Willie, Uncle Lajos)
2. Choose two characters and select a quote to describe them physically or psychologically.
Character: The Baker. "He did not bother returning my greeting as it is well known in the neighborhood that he could not abide Jews"
Character: Annamarie: "She too is fourteen years old, or thereabouts. She has a long neck and is already starting to round out under her yellow star."
3. What is the narrative technique? Provide evidence.
Point of View: First Person. "I didn't go to school today." (page 3) He is the narrator of the story.
Narration: Indirect. "We were already on the upper floor when it occurred to my stepmother that she had forgotten to redeem the bread coupon. I had to go back to the baker's." (Page 12) The narrator is not talking to us but is talking about others.
Speech: free indirect speech (each character talks by their own, they can be described by the narrator but they talk by their own.) "When I was about to set off from the house, even my stepmother had a few private words with me in the hall, just between the two of us. She said she hoped that, on what was such a sad day for us, "she could count on my behaving appropriately." ".Tense: Past Tense. (I didn't go to school today" (Page 3). The story already happened.
4. Describe the setting of this chapter.
This story takes place in Budapest, Hungary. It can be 1944 because he is in the Ghetto, and in Hungary they were moved to the Ghetto on spring of 1944.
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