Mrs contreras language Arts 9th Grade – Eng I igcse honors Room C209 Weekly Forecast 4/16/07 – 4/20/07

In Conclusion…

• Conclusion to “Timeline: Events in World

• History”

• During this time in history, the World Wars were occurring, but then Germany surrenders; Europe divided into communist east and capitalist west

• Fidel Castro leads Cuban Revolution

• The Wright Brothers made the first successful airplane flight

In Conclusion…

• Conclusion to “Metamorphosis”

• Metamorphosis is the most famous work by Franz Kafka.

• It is a story about a man that needs money for his family, but he does not enjoy the job he has

• The major themes in this story include:

• guilt (he turned into a giant bug and can no longer support his family)
• duty to ones family (he hates his job but its for his family)
• Alienation (he feels alienated from everyone)
• Personal Identity ( he realizes he did things for the others best interest, but he has never enjoyed his job)
• The Need for Freedom (needs freedom for his job and family)

Work Cited

• Applebee, Arthur N., et al. The Language of Literature.

• Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell Inc., 2003.

Works Cited

• Applebee, Arthur N., et al. The Language of

• Literature. Evanston, IL: McDougal Little Inc.,2003.

• Photo of Sigmund Freud

• http://aeiou.iicm.tugraz.at/aeiou.encyclop.data.image.f/f782426a.jpg

• Painting of “ The Old Guitarist”

• http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/e/e4/225px- Old_Guitarist_Picasso.jpg

• Photo of Women protesting

• http://www.peacebuttons.info/E- News/images/VotesforWomen.jpg

Citation

• Applebee, The language of Literature. boston: McDougal Littel ,

• Schreibman , Vigdor. "Global Inheritance." Aug 2003). 11 Apr 2007 .

• "The History of Art Education Time Line 1930-1939 ." 11 Apr 2007 .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis

• http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/metamorph/

• www.google.com/images

Work Cited

• Applebee, Arthur N., et al. The Language of Literature.

• Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell Inc., 2003.

Metamorphosis

• By: Anabell Bernot

• Written by:Franz Kafka

Who’s the Main Character?/Comp exp.

• Gregor Samsa is a worried commercial traveler that spends his time drowned in exhausting business work while trying to put up with his boss and support his low class family at the same time (Kafka 1110)

• He awakes one morning shocked to find he has turned into a huge, repulsive insect wriggling about in his bed sheets.(111O)

• Courtesy of Yahoo Images

Comprehensive and detailed expalnation

• Gregor tries to go back to sleep but finds himself uncomfortable with his new body(1110).

• Gregor sees that he no longer have his usual life style as he was when he was human. He tries not to face the problem by giving up sleep and forgetting, showing his moral character of how he faces situations and trying to get back out.

• He thinks that if he could just give his boss a piece of his mind, because of the money his parents have to pay back to him he cant and his boss is almost deaf(1112)

• After the family sees that Gregor is not getting up they start knocking on the door and Gregor says he no longer has his normal voice because “a severe chill…commercial travelers”(1113). We can see that Gregor is in denial in accepting and fully believing what is happening to him because of his worries of putting up with demanding people.

Continuation…

• Awhile later the chief clerk and the parents torment him by asking him to get the train to work. His sister starts to cry because Gregor is not going to work and is worried of the debts they have to pay(1115). We can see by these two events that his work life and home life are ruled by demanding people that need him to work for them and what Gregor has to deal with. The problem with his sister foreshadows the conflicts that will arise with his family, especially his sister representing the change of the family's feelings and thoughts.

Continuation…

• Gregor finds himself in his bedroom but starts to accept his current conditions of the annoying buzz he makes but “felt himself drawn once more to the human circle and hoped for remarkable results”. He recovers from his dad pushing him inside the room violently because of his gruesome appearance and commotion starts(117-1121) By his dad pushing him this illustrates the demanding figure of a chief in Gregor’s life and how he is literally “pushed around." We also see how he does not want to let go of his human past.

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