Franz von Holzhausen

1.Throughout the movie, Chris Gardner encountered many stressors. Some stressors he met were his lack of money, the fact that he had no stable job, his wife’s departure, the inability to support his son multiple times, and the absence of somewhere proper to stay. He did, however, overcame these. Regarding his wife, Chris Gardner accepted her departure to focus on his son. This became a stressor when he couldn’t properly support him. Christopher, his son, became his support in return. Through…

Gregor, the main character who metamorphizes from a human to a large insect, faces a lot of miscommunication and impartial tolerance from his family members to show us how convenience can be misleading when it comes to disadvantage. Before Gregor’s transformation, he acted as the backbone of the family, a necessity: “Gregor went on to earn so much money that he was able to bear, and indeed bore, the expense of the whole family” (Kafka, 1218). According to this statement, he was a highly-valued…

This essay is over gregor, a traveling salesman who dramatically changed into a disgusting bug. I believe Gregor changes very little as a character over the course of The Metamorphosis. I believe despite his physical looks gregor doesn't change that much in personality. At the beginning of the story he wakes up for work and realizes he's late for work, and he notices something odd and that he can't get up. As he tries he realizes more and more that something's wrong. Gregor physically can't…

understanding. “Mirrorings” by Lucy Grealy is a piece that examines perception of self, in the context of living with a disfigured face. The effect that this physical deformity has on Grealy’s life is profound, and deeply personal. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is another story that deals with the perception of reality. In the book, the main character Gregor Samsa is suddenly…

Washington Irving was born in New York, NY on April 3, 1783. He was the first internationally recognized author of America. Studied law and worked as a lawyer on Wall Street. He was interested in satirical writing in serial productions, and American boys often studied his books as a model of graceful prose. After a close friend passed away, he stopped writing stories for quite some time. “Rip Van Winkle” is one of his largely known works in America. The story is based off of other short stories…

The term isolation refers to being far, or distant, from other places, buildings, or people, according to the US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, isolation is extremely common with those who possess a mental health problems or disabilities. In the book The Catcher in The Rye, written by J.D. Salinger, the protagonist, Holden Caufield, a sixteen-year-old boy who is caught in between the transition from childhood to adulthood. After being expelled from Pencey Prep, the…

In Richard Wright’s novel Black Boy , Richard suffers from physical, emotional, and mental hunger . Richard was a little black boy that suffered from a lot of things . His father left them , with no food or money . Their father usually would bring the groceries home , but he left his family alone with nothing . So Richard had to be the man of the house . First, he suffered from physical hunger . Wright’s dad left him, his mom, and his brothers in the tenement by themselves . They had no food…

You don't need to know anything about chess, New Zealand or Genesis Potini to fall under the spell of "The Dark Horse." This may have as much to do with the real-life Potini as with the actor who becomes him in this loving portrait: "Fear the Walking Dead" star Cliff Curtis. His immersive portrayal makes Potini fascinating and unpredictable in every frame of "The Dark Horse." The real guy was just as interesting. It was a 2003 documentary about the New Zealand chess champ (nicknamed the Dark…

Literary Analysis: “Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka “Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka is known by most first-time readers as simply a classic, existentialist work of fiction that follows the life of a man named Gregor Samsa, whom wakes up one morning to find that he has suddenly metamorphosed into a roach. Despite this seemingly simple plot summarization of man-turned-bug, the Metamorphosis offers much more room for interpretation when one analyzes the text. Further analysis shows that the…

Gregor has reached rock bottom, his family declared him nuisance needed to be gotten rid of him. Gregor’s immobile legs represent the will he longer has to keep living, the realized now that his presence was tearing the family apart and he needed to leave. He was surprised than his will his small legs kept him going for as long as it did since like the futile hope he had his legs were so thin compared to the burden it had to carry. The pains he had started going away, because he started to…