Hitting Budapest

The features of the story from the ‘hitting Budapest’ excerpt described a bush filled rural world of Budapest. Scenes were described with plain durawalls, corpses hanging from trees, large extravagant mansions with the wealthy taking photos of the outside-word, and lastly, guavas. The whole story revolved around these guavas, and by the description, i imagine this part of Budapest was nothing more than a guava tree farm.

the ethos of the ‘hitting Budapest’ story would be that everything in this part of Budapest seems to revolve around the guava trees. All the children in this story are all fixated on eating. They all want to eat anything and everything, but the only viable source of food is these guava trees. We experience for a minute, the children staring at a women eating something described as a slice of pie or a cake, and when the women tosses her slice, the children erupted with shouts and anger when they realize they could have eaten what she casually tossed away.

the strategy the author is using to convey this story is a depiction of what is it to possibly live a very small and meager lifestyle. A life built on aspirations to be something great by ‘just knowing it will happen someday’. The children are presented with 2 adult figures from this story, The first one, the wealthy lady, only wants to take pictures of them and runs off into her house despite the kids being starved and stealing fruit to satisfy their hunger. The second adult figure, is what, we can assume at least, to be another adult women who has either hanged herself, or someone did it for her. She paints very opposite life outcomes for the children, but they are hardly phased by either of them after they move on and continue their day

in hitting Budapest, the characters are connected to the story in the sense that they are depicted to be the only living things in this world. The women the run into isn't from Budapest, and the other women they encounter isn't even alive.