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Comparison

Which story do you think Metamorphosis compares to the most?

Metamorphosis

Since Metamorphosis is about half of the exam (hint from extra help class: the essay is about comparing metamorphosis to something else) and we have not really reviewed it except for under pressured time, it would help everyone to make study guides by listing some suggestions of important quotes and themes... just an idea.

Metamorphosis vs. Dante's Inferno

How does everyone like Metamorphosis compared to Dante's Inferno??

Inconsistency?

Is Gregor supposed to be a giant or a tiny bug?? It says that Gregor's father pushed him through the doorway because he had gotten stuck. That would mean he was pretty big, right? He couldn't fit through the doorway unless he stood upright. BUT... it also says that he fits on that picture frame and hides under the couch in his room. So wouldn't that mean he was the average bug size? That would have to be one giant picture frame if Gregor really sat on it. Did anyone else notice this?

KAFKA YOUtUBE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boSFjzWJXcU

mrs. Klebba told us about this guy and some of this articles, i don't know exactly which one.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=vladimir+nabokov%2Bmetamorphosis&btnG=Search

Exam??

Has anything been said about what we're responsible for knowing on the exam?

Would you want to be something else?

Do we sometimes feel like we might want to be a bug or some sort of creature at some point in time to see what it would be like if we did not really exist? Or maybe we sometimes want to be something else just to get away from everything around you such as work and your family...? If so, what do you think you would want to morph into?

SHOW BIZ

Kafka's Metamorphisis kind of reminds me of the movie BIG with Tom Hanks. As a child, Josh feels trapped in his boyish lifestyle and believes if he was older, he could find an escape in his independence. but waking up as a grown man is just as confusing and scarry as waking as a roach. although alot of the emotions displayed by josh and his parents are different from Gregor and his family, the idea of a dramatic transformation is kind of the same .

the Kafka in us

dont we all feel like this on some days. gregor's metamorphosis is more physical than physcological. bug's purpose for life is just to live and in that, comes the competition for life. bug's only do what they have to to survive and constantly do monotonous activities everyday. doesnt that sound like life at we know it ?

A bug's Life

If u could be a bug for one day, what things would u do? Lets not be to perverted, emphasis on too.

Metamorphous Questions. G,Taylor, Thomas, Doug

1. A. I’m amazed, amazed. I thought I knew you to be a quiet, reasonable person, and now you suddenly seem to want to start strutting about, flaunting strange whims.
B. I am about to lose even the slightest desire to stick up for you in anyway at all. And your job Is not the most secure.
C. Your performance of late has been very unsatisfactory.
There is a bad relationship between the two. The manager takes advantage of him and he uses him.
2. Gregor has abnormal emotions. He is still concerned about his job and not that he is a bug. He worries about his family more than he worries about himself being a roach. He is calm.
3. “I’ve got the torture of traveling, worrying about changing trains, eating miserable food at all hours, constantly seeing new faces, no relationships that last or get intimate. To the devil with it all!” he is worried about work and changing trains but he not worried about himself being a BUG.“ First of all he wanted to get up quickly, without any excitement; get dressed; and the main thing have breakfast

I've been home sick with a horrible stomach virus. I've missed Monday and Tuesday and probably won't be back in school tomorrow. Can anyone tell me what homework I've missed/what's due?? Thanks

No Test on Friday

Test???

so everyone one is really confused on whether or not we have a test this week, girls soccer has a tournament in pearl river all week and we can't afford to find out the day before or two days before that we have one... Ms. Deckard do we or do we not have a test??

Metomorphis

If you have a question ask it then we will all pitch in and help answer it.

jeff goldblum

Hey, if you guys like both Jurassic Park and Metamorphosis, then you'll love The Fly. Jeff Goldblum, that guy from Jurassic Park, stars in it as a scientist whose experiments transform him into a monster that's half-man, half-fly.
IMDB says, "Seth Brundle, a brilliant but eccentric scientist attempts to woo investigative journalist Veronica Quaife by offering her a scoop on his latest research in the field of matter transportation, which against all the expectations of the scientific establishment have proved successful. Up to a point. Brundle thinks he has ironed out the last problem when he successfully transports a living creature, but when he attempts to teleport himself a fly enters one of the transmission booths, and Brundle finds he is a changed man. This Science-Gone-Mad film is the source of the quotable quote "Be afraid. Be very afraid."

Here's the link to IMDB's page on The Fly.

Seriously, you should go out and rent it. Tell me if it's good or not.

metamorphasis?

does anybody know what the test is going to be like or if ms deckards going to be back in time to go over it with us before the test?

Tell Kayla I didn't get her e-mail. Try gmail.

no reading involved for kafka's the-metamorphosis

just listen to it
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http://librivox.org/the-metamorphosis-by-franz-kafka/

Link to On-line text of Shrew

http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/shrew/