Address Unknown Letters 1 and 2 notes

Address Unknown Notes

Letter 1: From Max to Martin-November 12th 1932

Context: 14 years after the war. 11/11/1918 the last day of WW1.This is also before Hitler came to power (January 1933).

• “My Dear Martin”-possessive determiner in the informal address

• "Back in Germany! How I envy you!".This is an exclamatory Sentence which gives voice and gives tone, a tone of jealousy but still one of friendship as if joking between friends.

• "You"- this is direct address (second person pronoun).

• Use of German lexis to create voice and context.

-Unter den Linden is under the linden trees

-Gebackner Schinker is baked ham

-Spatzle is a special side dish, a dumpling like pasta

-Spargel is asparagus

• Use of asyndetic listing of Max’s memories of Germany.

• Fronted connectives make it seem even more conversational e.g. And

• Irony in Max’s statements- “and now the arrogance and militarism are gone” and “you go to a land with the beginnings of fine political freedom”.

• Taylor provokes sympathy for Max as we learn he is “not so happy” now his “sunday home is transported over wide seas”.

• Max credits Martin with having a “fine spiritual approach to art” compared to his own more down to earth appreciation of what made a good investment.

• Max is Jewish, surname Eisenstein while Martin is not.

• Max misses Germany, he is currently in California, America.

• Max has a sister called Griselle who is an actress in plays but things haven't been easy for her-"lead play in Vienna." However it’s said that her hard work is paying off which can be seen with the metaphor"beginning to bear fruit".

• There was an affair between Martin and Griselle and it’s suggested that it was an unhappy relationship though no anger is held from the affair-…