Introducing Kafka

Penelope and Telemachus are absent to Odysseus because they are back in Ithaca and Odysseus is deserted to travel back alone. Odysseus longs for the family reunion, mourning and grieving over the fact that family is not whole. Ever since the beginning of The Odyssey, Homer constantly pushes the plot by providing motivation for Odysseus: Penelope and Telemachus. Despite the years spent with beautiful nymph Calypso, Odysseus never fails to grieve over the absence of his beloved wife Penelope.…

Franz Kafka’s engrossing characters and plot in The Metamorphosis develop the story’s overall reputation. The Metamorphosis opens as Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, awakes to find himself transformed into an insect, and we read upon the chronicles of this transformation. Although Gregor indeed suffers a change in some sort, is it truly physical or all a hallucination? Gregor veritably beared several mental disorders, such as: psychotic depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia, which were never…

“Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in,” Shannon L. Alder said. The negative factors in your life can change you as a person and how you view certain things. In Night, due to harsh conditions Eliezer is forced to face, he struggles to fight starvation and puts himself first during his father’s time of need. Eliezer doesn’t stay by his father’s side because he didn’t want to be beaten. He clarified that he was well aware of his father’s misery, but he was “afraid,…

Throughout life, we grow from depending on our parents, to becoming independent, and then to having people who depend on us. In Franz Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” the main character, Gregor, has a family that has become dependent on him. As humans, we are all pushed into circumstances that we have no control over, just as Gregor was. When the story opens, we meet Gregor, whose family depends on him before his transformation into a bug, but afterwards he was dependent upon them. Gregor’s…

I think that hard working is a characteristic of Chris Gardener because after everything he went through with his wife leaving for New York and him not being able to pay his rent and having to take care, feed and give Christopher shelter he had to keep going he had to make sure he got to places on time pick up Christopher and bring him to the homeless shelter by 5:00. Another Characteristic of Chris Gardner is persistent, because no matter how many bad things came along and try to bring him down…

Characterization in “No Guitar Blues” Have you ever wondered what makes a strong character? In the story “the no guitar blues” the author Gary Soto created a very complicated character Fausto. To help develop Fausto's characterization the author uses indirect characterization, direct characterization, and internal conflict. Indirect characterization is what the character is thinking doing or looking like. the Indirect character of the story “the no guitar blues” is Fausto. Fausto is a indirect…

Country singer, Gary Allen once said, “You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.” The moon represents people who seemingly have everything: the right clothes, money, connections, and everything, at least on the outside; while the stars represent the group that is shunned because of the jealously and hate that the moon feels for them. Gary Allen used the solar system to represent that even though someone could be the center but can still envy the rest. When people envy it leads to…

Dill is a mockingbird as, despite only ever wanting a caring family, he is made to feel abandoned. He expresses the impact of this feeling in his decision to run away from, what he describes as, a neglectful home. Stating that he left because he feels as if his parents “[don’t] want" or need "[him]” as they never spend time with him. In making him feel so “[unwanted]”, his parents, the very people meant to protect him, lead him to question his self-worth. That is, they make him question whether…

The Hunt I am all warm in my camo attire with my bow hugging the tree behind me. I watch as sky comes to life and leaves crunch as the dew falls on them. My father sitting at my right side, dozing, his head bobbing every once in awhile. I hear the faint noise of something crunching and look above me to see a squirrel perched on a small branch. I smile and nod my head letting out a faint chuckle. I take a look at my beautiful surroundings for any movement that would catch the arrow of my bow. I…

In the book Death of a Salesmen it follows a father and husband, Willy Loman, on the last days of his life. He is a traveling salesmen who has recently been layed off, and who is realising that he has not succeeded in the American Dream. His kids, Biff and Happy constantly argue with him, and both struggle money wise. It s believed that he wasted his life on his career because he, started having mental issues due to the stress of his job, was constantly complaining about the work and his boss…