Fatelessness: Chapter 2

• Author: Imre Kertesz
• Genre: Historical novel
• Setting: Budapest
• Historical context: Nazi regime, the holocaust.
• I believe the author wrote this piece to show us how was the moment Gerog was living without his father, and also to show Gerog's change from being a boy to a grown up.
• What the author wants to show us is that there is nothing bad in being different.

• Protagonist(s): Georg Koves
• Antagonist(s): Nazi Regime 
• Static Characters: Mr Sütó
• Dynamic Characters: Georg

• The author use specific literary devices on this chapter: an allusion, with the story of "the prince and the pauper"; a flashback, when he tells us how was his experience when he kissed Annemarie.
• The tone of the author is something like matter-of-fact, or straight-forward.
• This piece is told in first erson, because it is Georg the one who is telling the story. As I said before, we just need to read the first line to notice this: "I didn't go to school today".
• Some internal conflicts could be that he is changing from being a kid to an adult; confusing feelings about Annemarie.
• Some external conflicts could be his continuous struggle against his mother, or the fact that he is now being obligated to work.