Franz von Holzhausen

Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, awakes one morning to find out that he has been transformed into a gigantic insect. From his bed, he looks around his room, adjusting physically and mentally to his new body and wondering if he hasn’t been dreaming. But when he tries to turn over onto his right side and can’t, he realizes that it is no dream, that indeed he is an insect, complete with a hard shell for a back, wriggling legs, and feelers. At last, plagued by guilt, Gregor agrees with his…

What would it be like to live in a world separated into five factions? The novel Four by Veronica Roth is science fiction novel. The protagonist of the story is Tobias Eaton, later named Four, is trying to escape his father and is trying to fit into is new faction, the Dauntless. The conflict of the story helps the reader understand the theme. The conflict of Four is Four has to fit in with the Dauntless and chose a job and escape his father.“The only jobs left by the end were the gross jobs…

At the beginning of the movie Johnny works as an apprentice in a silversmith's shop. One day he tells his Master’s granddaughter that he comes from a very rich family. Johnny is trying to finish the cup before Monday comes so they can get commission. One Son of Liberty is trying to convince Johnny to get time off work so then he can help them monitor the tea ships. After a bad burn his fingers grow together and he can’t move them. His Master deems him useless and kicks him out. Most of the jobs…

Chris Gardner values his family, even though they are going threw tough times and his wife has to work a double shift to keep food on the table and the bills paid. Chris is trying his hardest. Family comes first to Chris but sometimes he get caught up in other things that make it seem as though he doesn’t but family is a priority to Chris. Chris Gardner didn’t meet his dad until he was Twenty-eight years old. That why when his wife took his son for a night he freaked out and was sad. Chris…

Blood Relation Finds Their Way Closer! It was bucketing with rain in the deserts of Cairo, Egypt at the fall of dawn, in a May season when Egypt’s Queen, Cleopatra abandoned her three young children of Julius Caesar’s blood, Cleopatrick, Cleopatricka and Cleopatran in different locations around the vast deserts of Egypt. The three babies survived that day. The next crisp Autumn morning was when they were seen by three distant orphanage members and taken to the orphanages. Cleopatricka was…

The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka's the Metamorphosis is about a man named Gregor who turned into a cockroach. This book uses symbols such as a picture in his room, doors and windows and food to show how Gregor's family dehumanizes him over many months. Food is a great symbol of Gregor’s death . Food symbolizes how his family treats him after he turns into a cockroach. When Gregor first turns into a cockroach, food symbolizes how his sister cares for him unlike the rest of his family. His father…

Gregor Samsa: The Voice of the Disabled in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis In Franz Kafka's, The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa accurately depicts the challenges, consequences, and ultimately the heroism associated with a severe disability. In fact, Franz Kafka had suffered from Tuberculosis, having to endure the paralyzing limitations of his illness. However, Kafka was then able to transmute his observations and experiences into that of a man imprisoned in a insect’s body. Following Gregor’s…

Sonata in A minor, K. 110 Domenico Scarlatti Domenico Scarlatti was born in Naples, Italy, on October 26, 1685. A brilliant musician at an early age, Scarlatti followed in the compositional footsteps of his father, Alessandro Scarlatti. In 1708, Scarlatti moved to Rome to become maestro di cappella to the exiled queen of Poland, Maria Casimira. He later became head of the Cappella Giulia, the choir of St. Peter’s Basilica that sings for all solemn functions of the Vatican. While in Rome,…

The novel Runner is a coming of age story written by Robert Newton, published in 2005. Charlie Feehan, a bright 16 year old boy living a low class life in the suburb of Richmond in 1919, battling his father’s recent passing and other troubles that come with poverty. He falls into working for an infamous criminal ‘Squizzy Taylor’ to earn money for his family, but will soon realise through his love for running, his true destiny, with the help of his newfound father Mr. Redmond. Newton uses ‘boots’…

Throughout The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka the main characters change greatly, though Gregor’s father stood out the most. He progresses and regresses as the story continues, but it’s the almost immediate transformation aside from Gregor; He becomes violent, changes his attitude of life itself, and completely abandons Gregor. Gregor’s father beats down on the door and is curious as to why his son didn’t get up for work that morning (Kafka, pg. 16). Gregor had gone to work every day, he had done…