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THE METAMORPHOSIS

Franz Kafka

When Gregor awakes in Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, he finds himself turn into a gigantic insect. He considered that it is a dream which reflects on the dreary life of a traveling salesman. Then he figure out that is true, he has turned into an insect. He knows it is a disaster both to him and his family. He cannot go to work or do anything with such a body. This story is talking about Gregor and his family’s change after he becomes an insect. What I want to analysis next is the change of his family’s attitude by his appearance.

First, when Gregor hind out he turn into a giant insect, he memories that his family’s situation. “In any case, right now I have to get up. My train leaves at five o’clock.” (5)Gregor still want to go work, he do not want to be late. It shows his hard working. In his family, he works as a traveling salesman in order to provide money for his sister and parents. His parents do not have work and his sister still a student. “Gregor wanted to answer in detail and explain everything, but in these circumstances he confined himself to saying, ‘Yes, yes, thank you mother. I’m getting up right away.’”?(7) It shows his fealty. As a son, he does not want his family know what has changed of his appearance. It will be a great shock for his family. Due to his family’s situation, he used to be the most important one in the family. He earns the money for family and pay for all the debt for his parents.

However, it cannot be hidden forever. When the manager came to his house in order to figure out the reason he do not go to work, they finally find that Gregor has become an insect. “‘Help, for God’s sake, help!’ She held her head bowed down, as if she wanted to view Gregor better…When she reached the table, she sat down heavily on it, as if absent-mindedly, and did not appear to notice at all that next to her coffee was pouring out onto the carpet in a full stream from the large overturned container.”(27-28). This is what his mother’s behave when Gregor rush out of his room. “The manager was already on the staircase. His chin level with the banister, the manager looked back for the last time…the manager must have suspected something, because he made a leap down over a few stairs and disappeared, still shouting ‘Huh!’ The sound echoed throughout the entire stairwell.” He will lose his job certainly, but how about the next part that how his families deal with this trouble.

In the second part, after they calm down, they start look after Gregor. His families begin working once again because they lose the only source of income. “By the door he first noticed what had really lured him there: it was the smell of something to eat. For there stood a bowl filled with sweetened milk, in which swam tiny pieces of white bread.”“Thus, he had a long time to think undisturbed about how he should reorganize his life from scratch.” At this time, Gregor still have hope for the future, and his parents and sister sympathize with his sufferings. Gregor’s mother, as a mother, she wants to enter his room. It proves too much for her, she suffers from the sympathy and her fear at Gregor's new appearance. At this time, although Gregor become the excess baggage of his family, they still look after him and wish it will pass by someday.

Unfortunately, as time goes by, Gregor’s situation becomes worse. His family cannot understand him anymore. At first Greta volunteers to feed him and clean his room. However, she is tired of look after such an insect even if it is her brother, and she says:” we must get rid of it…”(85). “you must try to get rid of the idea that this is Gregor… if this were Gregor, he would have realized long ago that human beings can’t live with such a creature…”(86) so finally, Gregor has been locked in his little room until he dead. “‘What now?’ Gregor asked himself and looked around him in the darkness.”(88) Gregor feels so hopeless by his experience. He used to be the only source of income of his family. But now, his families want to get rid of him.

Finally, Gregor dies a charwoman deal with his corpse. And now the family is getting well, husband and the wife find their daughter become “a beautiful and voluptuous young woman.”(96) This story is ending by Gregor’s dead, his family get well expect him.

As a conclusion, what I analysis is the change of his family’s attitude which is worked by his appearance. First, when Gregor find out he turn into a giant insect, he memories that his family’s situation. He is the only source of income of his family and he is such a fealty son. But his change in appearance shocks his family. When they calm down, they start look after Gregor with sympathize. However, their patience fade away as time goes on. Finally, they want to get rid of Gregor. The story has ending by Gregor’s death. 

analysis paper outline

THE METAMORPHOSIS

Franz Kafka

Outline

Topic: the change of his family’s attitude is worked by his appearance.

Example 1: When Gregor find out he turn into a giant insect, he memories that his family’s situation.

          “In any case, right now I have to get up. My train leaves at five o’clock.” Gregor still want to go work, he do not want to be late. It shows his hard working.

          “Gregor wanted to answer in detail and explain everything, but in these circumstances he confined himself to saying, ‘Yes, yes, thank you mother. I’m getting up right away.’” It shows his fealty.

          Due to his family’s situation, he used to be the most important one in the family. He earns the money for family and pay for all the debt for his parents.

Example 2: His families look after him and care him as their relative.

          “By the door he first noticed what had really lured him there: it was the smell of something to eat. For there stood a bowl filled with sweetened milk, in which swam tiny pieces of white bread.”

“Thus, he had a long time to think undisturbed about how he should reorganize his life from scratch.”

At this time, Gregor still have hope for the future, and his parents and sister sympathize with his sufferings.

Example 3: His change brings disaster to his family. Their torment is too much for Gregor’s sister to bear, and she says:” we must get rid of it…”(124). Later she continues,” you must try to get rid of the idea that this is Gregor… if this were Gregor, he would have realized long ago that human beings can’t live with such a creature…(125)

          Gregor dies, and a charwoman disposes of the corpse. Now the family is rejuvenated and the husband and wife suddenly notice “their daughter’s increasing vivacity”(132) she has bloomed into a pretty girl with a good figure.

Conclusion: His change brings disaster to his family. His family’s attitude has changed with the time goes by. Finally, the story end by his dead.

analysis paper step1-3

The Metamorphosis

Determine element: Gregor’s appearance

Literary review:

 The writing background is that from 1914 to 1918, the First World War, many capitalist countries economic recession, social unrest, the people live in hot water. The darkness of the reality, the pain of life, make people lose faith in capitalism society, on the one hand, to seek a way out, reform, on the one hand and in loneliness, decadent, despair. The end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, some artists think the world is chaos, with a clear mind their writing, criticizing capitalism relationships and criticism by human social system. Before and after the First World War and before and after the Second World War, modernist literature came into being. Modernist literary works reflect the capitalist society of the dark, cold relations between person and person, to the despair of the society. Art emphasizes on using extreme exaggeration that the performance of the quirky, depicting the distortion of human nature, the instinct of a man and unconscious subjective feeling, dig the individual intuition, instinct, unconscious, dream, abnormal psychology and half crazy, crazy behavior, and psychology. Modernism of outstanding literary works explores the human mind, to reveal the inner world provides a new artistic technique.

   Franz Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” is a twentieth-century classic that invites various interpretations, but all commentators agree that it is a story about estrangement and alienation. That thesis, however, does not account for me baffling ending of the story.

“Metamorphosis” is the tale of Gregor, a traveling salesman who finds his work loathsome and meaningless. He awakes one morning and finds he has turned into a “gigantic insect”. His change brings disaster to his family. Their torment is too much for Gregor’s sister to bear, and she says:” we must get rid of it…”(124). Later she continues,” you must try to get rid of the idea that this is Gregor… if this were Gregor, he would have realized long ago that human beings can’t live with such a creature…(125)

This point is, however, that the creature is Gregor, and the implication of the denial is that only when the family refuse to recognize the true nature of Gregor (the loathsome aspect of wasted living) can life remain tolerable.

Gregor dies, and a charwoman disposes of the corpse. Now the family is rejuvenated and the husband and wife suddenly notice “their daughter’s increasing vivacity”(132) she has bloomed into a pretty girl with a good figure

Why has this metamorphosis in the daughter taken place? The story sadly implies that only false illusion can become a saving ideal, only under its grip can life blossom.

There is quite evidently a spiritual progress from human-insect mongrel to purebred insect as the story unfolds. If i am correct, there is also an altogether more dramatic physical progress than has hitherto been noted. The human, encrusted with the coleopterous, and gradually absorbed by it.-TOM HARTMAN, Sweet briar collage

Gregor’s transformation completely alters his outward appearance, but it leaves his mind unchanged, creating a discord, or lack of harmony, between his mind and body. When he first gets out of his bed after waking, for instance, he tries to stand upright, even though his body is not suited to being upright. He also thinks of going to work, despite the fact that he can’t by any means do so, and when Grete leaves him the milk at the beginning of Part 2, he is surprised to find he doesn’t like it, even though milk was a favorite drink when he was human. In essence, he continues to think with a human mind, but because his body is no longer human, he is unable at first to reconcile these two parts of him.- by MJINDRA5, July 15, 2012

   

Works Cited

Hill, Stanley. "Kafka's METAMORPHOSIS." Explicator 61.3 (2003): 161-162. Academic Search Premier. Web. 30 May 2015.

Hartman, Tom. "Kafka's THE METAMORPHOSIS." Explicator 43.2 (1985): 32. Academic Search Premier. Web. 30 May 2015.

 Kafka, Franz. "Metamorphosis". Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 15 April 2014.

Response of I bought a little city

Donald Barthelme’s short story I bought a little city is talking about how He did to his little city. As the owner of this city, he can do everything he wants. Just like he said in the story that he shot six thousand dogs in his city and he wants to occupy sam’s wife. “I am the sole owner and I make all the rules.” He said this in the story. But I think it’s totally worry. He just bought this city, it doesn’t mean that he can own all the people in his city. Human are all free, no one can own others. I think he can do whatever he wants to his city but he cannot do anything to those lives in this city. You'll roast in Hell in the eternal flames and there will be no mercy or cooling drafts from any quarter. what the man said to he is what I think to this man.

Response of A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

     A very old man with enormous wings is a short story that a old man with enormous wings came to a small village unconsciously. This old man maybe is an angel. He helps the little boy and punishes the woman who had been changed into a spider. He helps those people to get rid of trouble but people cannot understand him. Finally the angel leaves this village. As I concerned, he maybe try to find another place to help people and in order to find a place where people can understand him and everyone will respect him. I think he just want to find a place where he can live. He does not want to be a leader or anyone, just want to have a peaceful life. It is a simple wish but also a hard one. It seems easy for a normal people but for an angel, it is so hard for him to get rid of others’ attention. Although he is such a nice angel, people cannot treat him as a nice person.

Read and Respond

Read and Respond: What is the genre of the short story? What are its characteristics? How should we define it Chekhov, Anton. “The Lament”

     The lament is talking a story about a cabdriver, Iona Potapov, whose son is dead for a week. However, in this whole week, he never found a people to pour out all his words. Every passenger has no patience to listen for a second. They laugh at the cabdriver or refuse to listen. Finally, cabdriver can only talk to his little horse. Iona’s feelings are too much for him and he tells the little horse the whole story. As a old man without any friends and relative, the only one can listen to him is his little horse. In my words, this is the custom of the world. You cannot offer others any benefit for listen to you, so why they need to listen to you, a poor cabdriver. They spend money just want to catch up not spend money to listen a story about the dead of cabdriver’s son. Due to the lack of sympathy and patience, no one want to listen to such a cabdriver. 

ENG Utopia

Marriage Freedom

11. A. in the community, the marriage is not limited by gender.

22.      The marriage can happen between two people, three people, or a group of people.

33.      A person can marry him or herself.

44.      A person can chose to marry an object or an animal. However, if a person marry an object or an animal, the object or animal do not need to have any responsibility for the marriage.

55.      A person can have baby with any people in his or her marriage.

66.      The technology of biology is very advanced, people of the same gender can have children. More than two people can have a child with the genes from all of them.

77.      If you marry an animal, and you want a baby with it, you can choose whether you want a human baby or an animal baby.

88.      If you marry yourself, you cannot clone yourself for reproduction. If you want a baby, you can go to sperm-and-seed bank.

99.       If two or more people want to marry the same animal or object, they need to make a decision about who marry it, or they marry together.

110.   You can choose to marry a part of something or someone.

111.   If you want marry part of someone, for example, a person’s left arm, you have to have the owner’s permission. And that owner has to be single.

112.   If a person or a group of people want to get a divorce, they have to all reach the agreement, or they have to go to the court to discuss and debate.

113.   If a person or persons have baby, the person or group of people in marriage with him or them all have the responsibility as parents.

114.   A person cannot marry twice in the same time.

The structure of government in this society is pretty much like the government of USA.

The government’s name is Ait. The president and congress and judiciary are in charge.

It is a democratic society. The president has the highest power, and he is elected by all the citizens. The law can be changed by the congress’s proposing and agree by judiciary. The judiciary can impeach the president if he or she disobey the law.

The people who has venereal disease will have to be hold in hospitals before he is cured. So the people having disease has less power. But after he is cured, he will have all his power back.

The system of law and CG, which is the law-enforcement authority, will make sure the law is reinforced.

If a person break the rules, he will be put into special custody, but can still have work. The criminal of low degree crime will have a brace lace on him. It will monitoring him, and if he seems to break the law again, the brace lace will electric shock him to coma. The criminal of high degree crime will be hold in a special house with rubber walls.

Response to The Handmaid’s Tale

    The Handmaid’s Tale is such a long story that i have never read before. I spend a lot of time to focus on it. I am not a man that like reading book even it is in Chinese. In order to understand this story better, I search for the introduction of this story. This story is talking about future, with a fundamentalist theocracy ruling the territory of what had been the United States. It is classificated as science fiction or speculative fiction.
    These early chapters show the background of the story. Handmaid is a special name for this type of woman. Women in that country is only been treated as a machine to give birth to a child. Offred is the protagonist and narrator. Having proven fertile, she is considered an important commodity and has been placed as a handmaid in the home of the Commander.
    when i read chapter 2, Offred sits in a room that seems at first like a gymnasium. However, as a matter of fact, The room is like a prison in which all means of defense, or escape by suicide or flight, have been removed. The room is like a government-ordered prison. I am confused that how can the government set a rule like this and there are no person stand up to point out that the rule should be broken.

response of boy marries hill

    Boy Marries Hill is a short story about love. before i read this story, i cannot believe that a boy can marry hill. It is hard to accept it so i start to read with my question.
    Tapesh tell Darshini that he have to marry the hill because of his mother. So he wants to break with Darshini. It is a ridiculous reason to break up. Even i think it is a excuse just for get rid of Darshini. Then Darshini lies to Tapesh about the pregnancy in order to get him back.
    People always be selfish when they deal with love. Everything that you pay for the one you love will disappear. However, time is the antidote to heal those broken heart.

Response of genesis

    Genesis comes from the Bible, which is the most important book in western world. I am not a Christian, I am a Buddhist. So I was not so pleasure to read the Genesis. I just read the Genesis as a story.

I am so confused about the Genesis. There are so many questions in my mind after reading the Genesis. How can the god create anything he wants? Why the human in the ancient times can live for almost one thousand years? Why the god create human and everything in the world, but in the end he wants to destroy everything? One thing that I do not like the Genesis is that there are so many names in such a short page. I even cannot recognize those names.
As a matter of fact, I think it is interesting for me to read. I like reading stories especially talking about the ancient times. In the Genesis, the most interesting human I think is the Cain. Although he kills his brother and people always think Cain is evil. The LORD exile him, however, in order to protect him get rid of others and the animals. It shows that LORD still loves Cain. 

Moments of Light in O'Brien

    In the story,“How to tell a Tell a True War Story" the "light" appears for the first time in "quadruple canopy, no sunlight at all". In my opinion, "no sunlight" means dead, nothing but darkness that make people fear.
    when Curt Lemon dead, the sunlight appears. " the way the sunlight came around him and lifted him up" . The sunlight along with Lemon's death. It maybe means the paradise. Lemon will be sent to the paradise after his death. Another though is that the sunlight kill Lemon. The sunlight appears and when it disappears, Lemon lost his life too. It seems like sunlight is the soul-bringer, sunlight takes Lemon away.

analysis paper schedule

Step	Deadline
1: Determine text	March 23
2: literary review	March  27
3: determine element	March  27
4: Meeting with Dr. Marquardt	April 3
4: determine sources	April 8
5: determine quotes from primary sources	April 14
6: determine quotes from secondary sources	April 17
7: Outline	April   25
8: Draft 1	April  30
9: Peer Review	May  12
10: Draft 2	May   22
11: Final Draft	June 5

week 2 response for "how to tell a true war story"

    After reading this story, I feel a little hurt. I am a man that do not like read some story which tell a sad story. But this time I try to finish it and learn something new. The author Tim O'Brien uses flashback to show this story. At first he tell reader that  Rat lost his bast first in the war, and he wrote a touching letter to the great guy's sister but he never get writes back. Obviously, Rat feels  very sad about this. As my opinion, I think maybe this letter never be sent to Curt Lemon's sister so that this girl can never writes back. Everything can happen during the war.
    As the author says in his story, this guy who dead is a crazy boy . I remember that on Halloween, he paints up his body all different colors and puts on this weird mask and goes out on ambush almost stark naked, just boots and balls and an M-16. I like Curt Lemon because he always can find some interesting thing during this cruel war. Although he finally lost his life because his nature.
    The thing that i cannot understand in the essay is what they did to a water buffalo. This happens after Curt Lemon' death. They find the buffalo when higher in the mountains. Rat shot it without any sympathy. The most impressed me is that baby buffalo suffer this but do not make a sound. After i read this, i even feel gastric disorder causing nausea.
    Anyway, I learn a lot of things by this true story. Something that I never know about the war.

week 1 Read and Respond

    This is the first week of our spring semester. We are supposed to read some tales of 1001 Arabian Nights.

    “The Story of King Shahryar and His Brother”is the beginning of 1001 Arabian Nights. the king Shahryar and his brother are both betrayed by their wife. After killing their wife and the loathsomely black, two brothers leave the country. After they meet the devil they change their mind and back to the country. Then everything has changed, the king Shahryar gets a habit that kill a girl every day. In order to stop this, the daughter of Chief Wazir appear. She wants to help the king Shahryar to change. 

    Another tale is talking about the bull and ass. It is an interesting story. But after i read the tale, one thing still confuse me that why the merchant says that if he tell the truth to his wife, he will die. It is interesting that a human can understand what animal talking about. At the end he follows the idea of chicken to give his wife a lesson. 

    the conclusion of 1001 Arabian Nights is about Scheherazade had change the king's mind. Not only she does not die, the king Shahryar will never kill any girls. Interesting tales and happy ending can always make me happy, I spend a happy time with those tales.