Franz Boas

Whether it's big or small, positive or negative, change is inevitable. Every living and nonliving thing that has ever existed has endured some form of change. Change exists in everything we experience everyday. In literature, if there was no change, there would be no story, and no purpose in reading. Change is a common theme demonstrated in three different compositions by three different authors who hold similar views. Metamorphosis by Kafka, the Metamorphosis graphic novel by Kuper, and the…

Why does a dragon horde gold? This was one of the questions Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson posed during a lecture. Peterson used the metaphor of a dragon to illustrate why you must overcome your fears instead of ignoring them. Peterson used the children's book There's No Such Thing as a Dragon by Jack Kent to elaborate on this metaphor. In the story, a young boy awakes to a dragon sitting at the end of the bed. After patting the dragon's head, the boy runs downstairs to tell his mother.…

One day, our main character Gregor wakes up in his bed to find himself transformed into a vermin. He looks around his room, which appears normal, and decides to go back to sleep to forget about what has happened. He attempts to roll over, only to discover that he cannot due to his new body He begins to reflect on his life as a traveling salesman and how he would quit if his parents and sister did not depend so much on his income. Gregor’s mother soon knocks on the door, and when he answers her…

“Through Glass” Family unity is achieved through each family member supporting each other and working together in harmony. Although this is not the case in the play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. In this play the family is portrayed as dysfunctional, they seem to be together because they feel obligated to be part of the Wingfield family. The father abandoned the family, making Amanda, his wife, responsible for the children, Tom and Laura. As time passed, Tom felt obligated to…

1. Do you consider McCandless heroic or crazy? In what sense? I believe McCandless is crazy because he left his family and all modern technology to live off the land in Alaska to fulfill a delusion. McCandless was a selfish person that took advantage of his parents and all the people that offered to help his with his journey. At the end of McCandless even realized his plans were deeply flawed because he was nearing his own death, which is explained in this quote, “S.O.S. I need your help. I am…

In the past there has been a stereotype that all cowboys are good guys, and they will do whatever it takes to bring justice to the well-known hero complex. In James Mangold's film “3:10 to Yuma”, Dan Evans is the cowboy who falls the most into the stereotype of being a better leader. He sacrifices his life to bring the thief, Ben Wade to his long journey of killing to a well anticipated end. Dan Evans follows the stereotype from the beginning. He is married with kids and has something to fight…

Haroun and The Sea of Stories Annotations Chapter 1: The story begins describing a very sad city, one that is so sad, that it doesn’t know its name and there are glumfish. There may have been a tragic event that has happened here. I wonder what that tragic event was, or it could also be just an emptiness in life. “they made people belch with melancholy even though the skies were blue.” There was a man who was able to ignore all of the sadness and cheer children up with his stories and his…

however, not all religions have coexisted peacefully throughout time. People have been persecuted, beaten and even killed for simply practicing their religion and believing in their form of a higher being, or beings. In the works The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and Zaabalawi by Naguib Mahfouz, both authors examine their own religions and how their people were persecuted. Kafka, a German-Jew, despite living in a pre-Holocaust Germany, was highly aware of the religious persecution that had…

The feeling of isolation and abandonment from the outside world ultimately leads to one’s seclusion from modern society. In the short story, The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, the emotional detachment between Gregor Samsa and his family result in the gradual rejection of Gregor when he turns into a bug. Furthermore, the alienation caused by Gregor’s metamorphosis can be seen by the reader as an adjunct to the estrangement he already felt as a person when working in a capitalist society. Mr.…

responsibilities and is unable to put time towards his health or the connection with his family. It is his relentless work that ends up not only pushing him away from his family, but also strips him of his humanity and the life he could have had. Franz Kafka takes us through the story of a man who is no longer a man. He has gained the mindset of a worker ant, which is to accomplish what he believes needs to be done until the day he dies. The first line we hear from the main character in our…