Tuesday, December 9, 2008

The Metamorphosis


The story begins with Gregor waking up in bed and finding out that he’s just turned into a bug, probably a roach. Despite his state, Gregor feels that he can still go to work. However, he proves unable to do this when he finds he has so much trouble getting out of bed and opening the door. Furthermore, no one can understand him. Gregor’s employer, who had come to Gregor’s house to fetch him to work, leaves in a very nervous state and Gregor worries about losing his job. The story ends with Gregor dying on his bed and his family working their issues, His sister found a job at the end as well as other family members. This novel has a weird topic turning a man into a roach but it is fictional, and we found out that the author was a very unique individual and also in the time it was written were happening important issues in the world.

In class we use this novel from Kafka to rhetorical analyze it, and it was a good experience because almost every one in class participated it giving different opinions, however, this is a very complex material because can be analyze in different ways but it was really interesting listen all the ideas including the one from the instructor.

We use this text and we compared it with the movie X-men 2. Once again everyone in class participated it with ideas, and we came up with both materials were very similar. From the authors and the characters. Metamorphosis was a really good pick from the instructor to teach us how the rhetorical analysis works. I think everyone in class had fun learning this topic and I think he should use it in future classes.

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