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

His sister Grete betrays him and with her rejection Gregor goes back to his isolated room and dies

Outline Cont.

• Gregor notices his own feelings when he sees the evident patterns that his family is committing by neglecting him.

• Gregor notices that his family’s financial problems are getting harder to deal with without him working.
• His mom starts to sow underwear for the poor and his dad starts getting breakfast for the clerks at work having no time to even speak about Gregor.
• Gregor finds out the family wants to move but they find it difficult because of Gregor, but he knows that they would not care less if they had to shove him in a suitable box with air holes in it.
• After this incident, it leads to his room being covered in filth, and neither the charwomen nor his sister take care of it no matter how obvious the mess is.
• When the three lodgers boarded the Samsa house all their filthy objects went into Gregor’s room.
• In this case, Gregor feels deeply neglected because he sees the amount of food his mother and sister are serving the lodgers.
• He knew that he who was a brother and a son should deserve food from his family.
• He cannot take the fact that he is dying of hunger, and he realizes that the treatment his family is giving him is not worth for a family member.
• In the final scene, Gregor is condemned to death by his sister and family. He shows his face in the living room to express sympathy for his sister.
• He knows that the lodgers could not appreciate his sister’s music like he does.
• For this purpose, Gregor ends up being rejected by his family and sister all together.
• In the story, this shows that in this point he stops being treated like a Samsa because he can no longer support the family and stays “alone and helpless in his current state” (Wikepedia The Metamorphosis

Cont.

• The symbolism of each family member is crucial to understanding and interpreting Gregor’s Metamorphosis.

• According to Michael P. Ryan, Gregor’s father symbolizes the author of punishment.
• This is so because Gregor’s father bombards him with apples and limits his space by shoving him into his room with a stick.
• The apple thrown by Gregor’s father represents Gregor’s desire for life.
• When the apple slowly rots away Gregor’s desire for life fades away and leads him to death.
• Likewise, Gregor’s mother symbolizes rebirth for Gregor in the first part of the story and the third part of the story.
• In the first part of the story when Gregor’s mom pours the coffee and Gregor snaps his jaws suddenly, this symbolizes rebirth for Gregor.
• The flowing coffee is important to the beginning of Gregor’s Metamorphosis because it marks the beginning his transformation.
• Also, when Gregor is weakest in the third part of the story his mother tightly presses her legs and this is a symbol that death is near for Gregor.

Cont.

• His sister symbolizes betrayel by first caring for him like no else could, and ends up abandoning him and betraying him.
• Gregor’s sister turns the Samsa family against Gregor by convincing them that he died the moment he turned into an insect.
• This rejection turns Gregor’s efforts into a waste and dies with loving memories.
• Concluding Statement: In Conclusion, the roles led by the Samsa family are very important in Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis because we can understand the initial nature of the family, in sync with Gregor’s Metamorphosis

Questions

• Knowledge: What is the drink that Gregor rejects once he turns into an insect?

• Comprehension: Why do you think that Grete stops cleaning Gregor’s room and stops feeding him?

• Application: If you turned into a giant insect, how would you react if your family neglected you?

• Analysis: What are the reasons that Gregor turns into a bug?

• Synthesis: If Gregor stood up to his dad while being an insect, what do you think would have been the outcome?

• Evaluation: Do you think that Gregor turning into an insect was a good or bad thing?

Work Cited

• Applebee, Bermudez et al. The Language Of Literature. Illinois: McDougal Littell,2003

• Literature Recourse Center. Gale Group Databases. G. Holmes Braddock Library, Miami, Fl. 22 March 2007. .

• “Franz Kafka” Wikipedia.

• Franz Kafka. 1993. Grolier Incorporated. 23 March. 2007

• Constructing Franz Kafka. 1996. German Department of the University of Pittsburg. 23 March. 2007

Cont.

• Franz Kafka. 2002. Books and Writers. 23 March. 2007

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