Second BLOG - G Bell - Article Analysis - Due Tuesday, September 9th at Midnight

Please choose one of the following two critical articles on Kafka's Metamorphosis.  Decide if you agree or disagree with the stance in the article.  Provide a quote or two justifying your stance and relating it specifically to Kafka's work.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/36685124/Metamorphosis-Criticism

http://www.scribd.com/doc/36684417/ARticle-2

Second BLOG - F Bell - due Tuesday, September 7th at midnight

Read the following excerpt from Kafka's letter to his father.  In what way is Kafka's relationship with his father mirrored by Gregor's relationship with his father?  Find textual evidence to support your theory.

...by virtue of your antagonistic nature, you could not help but always and inevitably
cause the child such disappointments; and further, this antagonism, accumulating material, was constantly intensified; eventually the pattern expressed itself even if, for once, you were of the same opinion as I; finally, these disappointments of the child were not the ordinary
disappointments of life but, since they involved you, the all-important personage, they struck to the very core. Courage, resolution, confidence, delight in this and that, could not last when you were against it or even if your opposition was merely to be assumed; and it was to be assumed in almost everything I did ~Kafka's Letter to his father

Second BLOG - E Bell - Due Midnight Tuesday, September 7th

Please read the following excerpt from a definition of an existentialist:

The existentialist...thinks it very distressing that God does not exist, because all possibility of finding values in a heaven of ideas disappears along with Him; there can no longer be a priori of God, since there is no infinite and perfect consciousness to think it. Nowhere is it written that the Good exists, that we must be honest, that we must not lie; because the fact is that we are on a plane where there are only men. Dostoyevsky said, If God didn't exist, everything would be possible. That is the very starting point of existentialism. Indeed, everything is permissible if God does not exist, and as a result man is forlorn, because neither within him nor without does he find anything to cling to. --Jean Paul Sartre

How does Kafka portray the principles of the existentialist through his work, Metamorphosis? Use quotes and specific examples to support your beliefs.

First BLOG Post G Bell due August 27th

Choose a symbol from Their Eyes Were Watching God. Provide at least one detailed example of the symbol's application.  Correlate the symbol to a theme or two.  Provide a quote if possible.

First BLOG Post F Bell - Due August 27th

Please read one of the two articles on Hurston listed on the Blogger site.  Choose one quote from the reading and either agree or disagree with this quote.  Be sure to be specific and/or use textual evidence in the form of quotes if possible.

First BLOG Post E Bell - due August 27th

Use details from the novel to explain what the quote reveals about Janie's search for fulfillment. "Nanny: "De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see. Ah been prayin' fuh it tuh be different wid you. Lawd, Lawd, Lawd!"(29).

Once this quote has been "analyzed to death" suggest a new quote that addresses this same theme.