Franz Kafka Essay

Unzegeifer, the original German translation, equates to “an unclean animal not suited for sacrifice”; such word is used to describe Gregor Samsa’s transformation into a vermin in Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. A working class everyman, Gregor Samsa lacks the traditional societal honor that often characterizes one’s sacrifice to society. Gregor may not be a suitable sacrifice if he lacks the honor, let alone the willingness, to have his sacrifice hold any significant meaning. However, Gregor,…

Loved Yet Lonely Love is a joyful rollercoaster: it’s full of ups and downs, and makes your stomach go in circles and have butterflies. Even though you can be filled with love you can also be filled with loneliness. The movie Of Mice and Men and the movie The Pursuit of Happiness shows both Love and Loneliness, showing a couple of similarities and a couple of differences. Love is expressed in many different ways. George and Lennie show their love for one another many times during the movie.…

In this passage, the narrator describes José Arcadio Buendía as a curious man who desires to gain more knowledge. In the beginning of Márquez’s novel, José Arcadio Buendía runs away from his hometown to create a new, utopic town called Macondo. His curiosity and obsession with technology only grow as he becomes more isolated from the outside world in his small town. After José Arcadio Buendía discovers how a music box works, “he stop[s] eating. He stop[s] sleeping. Only the vigilance and care of…

I’m reading the 4th Harry Potter book, the goblet of fire. In the beginning Harry’s at the Dursley’s and he has a dream that there’s an old man that attends to a garden. He’s asleep, but he wakes up and goes in the other room, and is killed by Lord Voldemort. Harry wakes up and his scar is hurting. He goes down for breakfast and the Dursley’s get a letter from the Weasley’s asking if Harry could go to the Quidditch World Cup. The post card had 40 post stamps on it, the Dursleys said yes. The…

When Alex, Father, and Boruch get separated during the selection Alex follows specific direction from Father to hide in an abandoned apartment on Bird Street. After not eating for several days, Alex realizes that he desperately need food and water. He remembers that his father and the Gryns had set up a bunker for this very reason. Alex carefully goes to the bunker to look for food, but the Gryns give him very little. As Alex patiently waits for his father to return, he comes to realize that his…

Whatever Happened to Leyland? In a small bedroom of an average flat, inside a large building lived a remarkably boring middle-aged man named Leyland Stokes. Leyland Stokes was often dissatisfied, but one couldn’t blame him. His room, a bit too small; his gut, a bit too big, and his life a bit too ordinary. To add further dissatisfaction to his life, just one day prior to now, he’d come a hair’s breadth from losing his job as an accountant, and was much less lucky with his relationship. Today, he…

I don’t really read much, but I have to admit when I looked at the list of book options you had given us I thought to myself “Which one of these descriptions would be a movie worth watching?” and automatically I had the urge to read this book (or maybe talk a producer into making this into a movie). It could have been the goofy names or the fact that their dad was a god that got my attention, but I definitely thank my instincts on picking this book to read. I really did like this book. It was…

Step Brothers and Dumb and Dumber are both comedies. They have a lot in common but they have very different endings. I will go over the movie plots and show how the movies are similar and different. In Step Brothers, Brennan and Dale live together because their parents got married. They are full grown adults with no jobs. At first they hate each other but they bond over their mutual dislike of Brennan's younger brother Derek. They are goofballs that like swords, sharks, zombies, Chewbacca,…

The movie monkey's paw starts out in the house of Mr. Wight and his wife. It goes on to when they get a visitor the sergeant major. They all are sitting on the couch enjoying some beer When the subject comes up about the monkey's paw. When the sergeant starts telling the story he realizes that he should let it burn. Halfway through of throwing it Mr.Wight picks it up and the Sargent leaves letting Mr. wight keep it warning him though on what trouble it causes. Mr. wight taste it’s power by…

One personality trait that helped Chris Gardner throughout the movie, is being hardworking and determined. Chris showed that he was both hardworking and determined when and before, he was going through his internship to get a job as a stockbroker. before he got the position as an internship for the job, he tried his hardest to impress Jay Twistle to giving and convincing the people who were hiring, to giving him the job. Doing so he had jumped into a cab, solved a rubix cube, and most…