Oral activity

The oral activity I had to do was about chapter 7, and I mixed elements from chapter 7 with elements of the Second World War, this way we were able to contextualize what was happening in the historical time compared to the novel, using quotes from the chapter.

Well, to start, in chapter 7, Georg tells the readers about Buchenwald concentration camp, how it was like, the quote "Cold, damp, wind, or rain were no longer able to bother me, they did not get through to me, I did not even sense them" tells us more or less everything was happening with the protagonist in that moment, even though he suffered inhumanly because of the Nazis, he couldn't feel anything now, because he already suffered everything he could. Buchenwald was the "least worst" camp Georg was(Others were Auschwitz and Zeits), as there he had hot water, better food compared to the other camps and he was treated on a better way.

It is necessary to describe what what the Holocaust, because all the things that happened in the book were during that period, the Holocaust was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, throughout Nazi-occupied territory.

As a summary, Jews were treated horribly just because they weren't part of the denominated "Aryan race", but the truth is that they were great for bussiness and hard workers, and they were getting more power slowly in Deutschland. This is the context of what was happening during the novel, and its important to say that it is a semi-autobiographic novel, this means that the author, Imre Kertesz, suffered some of the things that happen in the novel.