Kaposvar, Hungary -- Spring 1938
So... this needs to be said. Her mom is GORGEOUS! I love that picture of her from 1926.
Judit has an immense love of poetry, and that is easily picked up on by her teachers... But she also has that almost naive, almost obsession, with the changing bodies of the girls around her, and her own. I didn't think that I'd hear a phrase such as God-given breasts in this book, but I suppose that that just adds to the realism of the memoir. 99.99999999999% of adolesents obsess at some point, and the book is just adding to the sense that the story is currently being told by a 13 year old.
"...when father turned on the forbidden voice of BBC from London," I found that interesting, as well. Why would she have a problem with London? Or did her parents teach her that political views such as those were best left for the older folk to worry about?
I am aware that there was a war going on, a horrid war, but what gives someone the idea to go to a SCHOOL PRODUCTION and insult a 13 year old child while she's trying to pay tribute to her country? I understand the dynamics of war, and how everyone involved strives to justify their actions, but what has someone pure of both mind and heart done to insult the indevidual, or provoke the country? There's no justification there, nor will there ever be.
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- the whole family is pretty good looking. cute friggin' kid!
ReplyDelete-well, any sudden (or raltively sudden) change in a persons body will be facinating to them. heck, i've had my ears pierced for years and i still play with them, its the same idea. aaaaaand i'm just seeign that you said something about that. ha. maybe i should read ahead from now on.
- i googled wether or not the BBC was banned during the holocaust, and i couldnt find anything about it.i thought maybe the gov't did it? maybe it had some beef with the jewish community and the parents banned it from the house.
-the school production really caught me off guard! i was expecting the beginning of the book to be kinda la-dee-doo, then it hits them really hard. but there was already a lot of antisemitism that manifested itself. it kinda threw me off. and she's paying tribute to the country. i suppose they might just be so upset that someone they decided wasnt okay in their mind is honoring their country, their patriotism might've kicked in a bit and it was just an outburst kind of thing?
-This has to be said, i LOVE the insults the teacher slings out.
-13 being recomended plato. thats impressive.
- Great foreshadowing.. 'it is better to suffer an injustice to commit one"
-i also love how she re-recites the poem after all the yelling. that chick's got balls!
oops... insults are second chapter!
ReplyDeleteAh yes... ballsy indeed.
ReplyDeleteBut the parents were the ones that were listening to the radio, weren't they? And that's freaking narrow-minded for a country to be taking out their beliefs on children like that. They CHOSE to go to that play. At least they quieted down, though.
Not only was that foreshadowing, but it's truly what they believed. The world chose to attack such a passive race and culture. How could they not see this?