Chapter 2

1) What characters are introduced?

The Steiners, the Fleischmanns and the two sister (Annamarie's friends)

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

Uncle Fleischmann is described as a person easy to get angry, he did not accept opinions different to hims. "Uncle Fleischmann got extremely worked up: 'It's always you who has to be right', he groused." (Page 32) The author adds a bit of humour when describing this character that was quite childish by blurting out that Uncle Steiner can not be always right.

Elder sister is driscibed as very emotionally unstable, as the quote states: "At first she merely fell silent, then very slowly, but with softness I felt as almost palpable, her lips parted as if she were wishing to say something. That was not what happened, however, but something else, much odder: she burst into tears. She buried her head in the angle of her elbow, which was resting on the table, her shoulders shaken by tiny jerks." (Page 37) Many actions happen in short while, and they are all related to the elder girl's emotional inestability. She could not cope with being Jew and discriminated due to that. It is expected for her to behave this way as she is still a girl, opposite to Uncle Fleischmann's case.

3) What is the narrative technique? Provide evidence.

First person, protagonist. "I was perturbed, gicen I was to blame, but I had no way of knowing[...]" (Page 37)

4) Describe the setting of this chapter.

The protagonist's hometown, Budapest. Summer. War time. "The landings by Allied powers had now 'definitively sealed the fate' of Germans." (Quote related to War time.)