Franz Kafka Essay

Movie Analysis 1. Structural Functionalism Theory The Benchmark Family The benchmark family applies to Gil and Karen’s family. Gil is the breadwinner father who is having trouble receiving a promotion at work that he wants throughout the movie. In the scene where he tells Karen he quits his job and she tells him she’s pregnant when he’s leaving she asks him if he have to. He replies that everything in his life is a have to. Gil has the responsibility of providing for the family financially and…

This story revolves around and old man and his unconventional relationship with his caretaker. The postmaster hailing from Calcutta, feels like a fish out of water in the remote village of Ulapur where he works. There, he led a lonely life, with little company and minimal work to do. To cope with this, he often engaged himself in writing poetry describing his peaceful and isolated surroundings. He had Ratan, an orphan girl of the village, to do odd jobs for him. He shared with her his meals,…

"The Guest" is a short story that displays multiple examples of irony, Albert Camus uses irony to get his theme across. The theme being, making what one believes is the right moral choice despite the consequences. This theme heavily reflects Camus' philosophical logic, he strongly believed in one's responsibility for their wrongdoings. In the short story, Daru has multiple choices to make, he has been given the choice to deliver the Arab to prison- respecting and obeying the government's rules.…

He who is guilty and driven by ambition will be blindly pulled around until justice stares him in the face. The Lion King by Roger Allers and Macbeth by Shakespeare are two very different pieces of work but have similar themes throughout. The Lion King and Macbeth have two character in which guilt haunts them in different ways. Blood is significant in both pieces of literature because the main characters feel that they cannot get the blood of others off their hands. Both characters go on a…

Loneliness Faces All Throughout John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, he illustrates the journey George and Lennie have throughout a significant part of their lifetime. Throughout the novel, many characters, including George and Lennie, are facing lonesome and they struggle to deal with it the noble way. Furthermore, many of the men are alone because they have no relatives left and they isolate themselves from everyone else around them. Having no relatives and isolating themselves can affect…

Choices in The Road Throughout literature, stories that depict a survival scenario in a post apocalyptic world has drawn the attention of readers everywhere. Where still subliminally sending the message of the author into the reader. In the story The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, the author depicts the tales of a father and his son, living their lives in the southern U.S., desolate and destroyed.Throughout the story, McCarthy uses many context clues to depict many scenarios of choice in these harsh…

I) I believe that Martin does have a phobia towards the elevator. C) In the text, The Elevator, and the text, Fears and Phobias, there are many correlating links between how Martin feels and the indications of having a phobia. The Elevator reveals how Martin has an obvious discomfort in elevators, but is forced to ride it as time progresses. He has many unlikely concerns while riding, such as the elevator falling or boxing him in between the floors. He starts trying to avert this condition by…

Have you ever felt like you didn't need to or feel the want to do something, but because there was a person that motivated you to persevere because you didn't to let them down? In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel him and his father are sent to a concentration camp and can hardly survive the harsh weather, the cruelty, and the starvation. Elie Wiesel needs a way to live and his father helps him achieve this by being his motivation to keep his own father alive. Elie’s father becomes weak and old…

Chris McCandless was the protagonist of the book Into the Wild. Chris set out to travel into the wild because he lacked clarification in his life. It all started from Chris’s youth when every day his father Walt McCandless and Billie Jhonson worked nonstop and did not express their love towards their kids. Instead, they fought because they were constantly stressing on bills to pay and mouths to feed; As a result, Chris and Carine distanced themselves from thier parents. The only real…

In Breakfast With Buddha by Roland Merullo, the main character Otto Ringling journeys through the states to North Dakota. Otto Ringling travels to North Dakota because his parents died in a car crash, and it is the duty of him and his sister to settle the estate. When otto arrives to pick his sister up, she has a very “special” surprise for him. She ends up not going and instead sends her friend Rinpoche on the trip along with Otto. During the beginning of the trip, Otto finds Rinpoche a little…