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

His death was because of starvation for the reason that his throat would not allow him to eat. Ref: (1140)The same fate that Gregor has in Metamorphosis when the lodgers receive more food than him and his family starves him.

An apparent theme in his books are the feeling of impotence and weakness Ref: (1120-1121) the conflict between his chief and father where he lets himself be pushed around literally, always having an excuse for why he did not stand up to them.

Samsa and Samsara: Suffering,Death, and Rebirth in the Metamorphosis/Michael P. Ryan

• This article talks about the symbolism behind the story such as the mom representing rebirth, how the father represents neglect and suicide and how Grete also symolizes both betrayal and rebirth. This is crucial to my essay because understanding the hidden meanings makes the reader have a clearer understanding of the meanings in the book. The author supports his ideas by givng quotes from the books such as when his mom spills cofee it represents rebirth for Gregor (Kafka 1137) and when Grete “stretches her young body out" (1188)

• The Metamorphosis: Overview

• Susanne Klingstein

• This interests me because in parts one two and three of the story Klingstein explains how Gregor’s relationship with his family changes in his transformation. In the first part he discovers the reaction of the family to the transformation, the second part explains how they live with him as a roach and the third part ishow the family turns against him. She supports her ideas by using all the examples from the text mentioned.

• The Metamorphosis: Overview

• John Hibberd

• This caught my attention because it talks about how Gregor feels when his family betrays him, neglect him, and then have no hope for him. Gregor’s rejection starts of with his family not accepting him. The Hibberd supports this by describing how they find happiness when he dies. He also explains how his family does not confide in him financial because he is a bug and how they put themselves above Gregor.This is supported with the fact Grete gains responsibility and trust.His self esteem is rotted away by his family and the lodgers when he knows nobody loves Grete’s music.

Critical Essay on “The Metamorphosis” Sheldon Gold Farth

• The main idea of this article is how Gregor’s transformation changes his working life in a cruel society to being neglected by his family. This is supported by a chronological summary of the three parts. This was of my interest because it explains more symbolism in the story that is not evident and introduces you to basic conflicts in the story and explains them to help me further my research.

• Franz Kafka Overview A.P Foulkos

• This criticism introduces the author and his particular style of writing. It also explains how Kafka uses philosophy, theology, and psychoanalysis. Foulkos supports his arguments by giving brief sentences or quotes in Metamorphosis to capture the pattern of Kafka’s writing style with deep personal meanings and events he relates to the book. This interested me because I wanted to be familiarized with his writing style so I can learn how the writer uses certain expressions and I could understand more the significance of events.

Franz Kafka: Overview Brian w. Aldiss

• Aldiss makes the point that Kafka has a wide topic of science fiction and how Kafka’s characters are trapped in a world of no escape and abnormalities. This is supported by saying that his work has religious meaning and spontinuity. I found this intresting to see the point of view Kafka writes in and what aspects he puts in them that make them what they are. He interpets his life through a story and the story, like a mirror bounces it back.

Outline

• Metamorphosis :

• The Crucial Role of the Samsa Family

• Thesis statement: The particular role of the Samsa family in the Metamorphosis is crucial because it reveals the nature of Gregor’s family and makes Gregor realize his emotions because of his family’s actions, yielding the story’s main moral of the importance of “family support”.

• First, we can see how Kafka shows the three different phases through which the Samsa’s family treatment of Gregor changes for the worse throughout the story, revealing their uncaring nature.

• In part one, the Samsa family does not worry about Gregor’s problems for the sake of his health or personal life, but for the economic struggles they face if Gregor does not work.
• Gregor’s family waits patiently for Gregor outside his door because he is not appearing to go to work.
• His sister sheds tears for Gregor, However once the boss gets to Gregor’s house, his sister quickly disappears fully dressed.
• Gregor notices that his mother is worried if he does not catch the train because he will not get his daily salary.

Ouline

• In the second part of the story Gregor’s family has to learn how to live with a repulsive insect.
• Gregor’s mom and sister change Gregor’s room to a living space no longer suitable for a human.
• Being, Gregor’s dad bombards him with apples, attempting to put limit the insect’s domain he throws him in his room, labeling it as “outside of the family,”
• Gregor, with his father’s actions, gets seriously wounded and ends up confided in his empty white habitat that the family has formed him.
• Gregor completes the transformation from human to insect when his family makes a united decision to condemn him to death by their neglect and inhumanity.
• His family starves Gregor, and instead of giving Gregor attention they starve him by giving all their food to the three gready lodgers boarding at his family’s house (Klingstein 2).
• Then, the family does not consider Gregor a part of the family; instead they believe he died the second he turned into an insect.
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