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.

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What is your lineage?

Born an' raised in a log cabin off the eastern side of the Mississippi  river, i grew up playing with hatchets and bear traps. My father was a coal miner down at the local quary and my mother was a waitress at the only diner in the entire county. I was one of seven boys: Paul, George, Boyce, Ruben, Frank, Pablo, and me Matt. Us boys always helped out mom and paw when ever we could. By the age of 6 the oldest brother, Ruben left home to go work full time at the taxidermist warehouse on the outskirts of town, I've never seen him since that day he left.  

In reality though, i was born and raised on the east coast of Florida as a single child. I have two half sisters who are 10 years older then me. 

 Who are your influences 

My biggest influence is my dad. Aside from being one of two sole providers in my life, I grew up skating surfing and snowboarding with my dad. A lot of my passions in life started out with my dad showing me how to do something to the point of almost being obsessed with it.  

All of my current hobbies started with some weekend activity with my dad. His influence on me when i was younger blatantly shaped me to the person i am today.  

What are your basic assumptions? What is your ideology? 

My ideology also stems from my dad. For the most part i grew up in a skatepark with my dad, so my first assumption of something is to not be scared of something intimidating (like a big ramp) and when what your trying to do doesn't work out, try it again but with a different approach. 

I can't seem to make it all the way up this ramp...maybe ill try getting more speed and see what happens, or maybe I'll pump up the ramp to carry more weight in my momentum? 

Situations like that are what shaped my perspective to problem solving.