In class: Hitting Budapest

Hitting Budapest

What are the primary features of this world--spatial, cultural, biological, fantastic, cosmological? 

The primary features of the world in this story would be poverty, large amount of land, and hunger. I say poverty because the children in this story are compelled to search for food (guavas) to eat due to their hunger. They often speak of what life they would like to live that consists of America, houses, and being able to bathe and look nice everyday. The large of amount of land is there because the children are looking for food in multiple places so the country they live in must be vast in order for them to do that, especially if they are only looking for guava trees. That notion cold be due to the cultural feature of the world. A biological feature of this world would be pregnancy.   


What is the world’s ethos (the guiding beliefs or ideals that characterize the world)? 

This world's main belief would have that you have to survive anyway you can. The children continue to go from place to place stealing guava from the trees. They do not seem at all guilty because they are hungry. When they see the woman has committed suicide, they devise a plan to sell her shoes to get food. Another belief would be not to waste food. When they first meet the skinny woman with a camera, they become intrigued by what she is eating. They, then, are later angry with her when she throws what is left of the food on the ground because she did not offer it to them if she did not want the rest and wasted food. Due to the high amount of poverty and a character's pregnancy, they are furious that she would waste perfectly good food. 


What are the precise strategies that are used by its creator to convey the world to us and us to the world? 

The writer sticks to the child's point of view and uses descriptions of the outsider woman with the camera you would never think of using like "the skinny woman" and "I can tell from the vein on the side of her neck, and the way she smacks her big lips, that what she is eating tastes good." The lady at end hanging by the woman is described with mostly the way she is dressed and how thin she is. 


How are our characters connected to the world? 


The characters are connected to the world because they are stealing from it. They are stealing from every guava tree they see since the tree they used to go to is now empty. 


And how are we the viewer or reader or player connected to the world?”

We are connected by the Child's point of view used.