Harrison Bergeron Political Cartoon

This relates to Harrison Bergeron because it depicts what Diana Moon Glamper may have been thinking at the time. That everyone would want one to be equal. So I made an advertisement for it that she may have made to get everyone interested in it and excited about it, when in reality, it's a burden. I bet half the people in 2081 hate having to wear all these pointless products to be fair with one-another.

The Metamorphosis chapter 3

Please respond to the following questions, at least one paragraph each.
1) What do you think Kafka was trying to say by turning the protagonist, Gregor into an insect?
2) Why do you think that Kafka chose the beetle/roach as the insect as supposed to the classic fairy tale reptile, the frog?

He turned him into an insect minimize him. Make him be just another thing to be ignored, squashed on, a nobody. He tried to make an example out of a protagonist to tell us a message. His message is a hard one to analyze, but I'll take my best analysis his message. He wanted to say that some people may as well be bugs, because they don't want to do much with their lives. Gregor was a person who wakes up, goes to work, goes home. He isn't the kind of person to go and take care of himself, but he takes care of everyone else. He was a person that hides in the shadows and brings back to the hive.

Kafka chose an insect because no one would care about a bug. It's something that someone saw as disgusting and they wouldn't want him to be around anyone or anything. Which is also the reason why he was confined to just his room. He was treated like trash. He became insignificant to his family and no one wanted to deal with him. As far as his family treated him, he was already an insignificant bug to them. Some who just goes through the motions.

The Metamorphosis chapter 2

FAMILY DYNAMICS
As Franz Kafka knew from his own life and as portrayed in "The Metamorphosis," families possess the power to both improve and injure the psychological well-being of their members. Discuss the ways that the Samsa family benefit and harm each other, citing examples from the text. Then, use the family in the novella, along with examples from real life, to create a set of FIVE important rules for creating and maintaining a healthy family life. Finally, grade (A-F) the Samsa family on how well they follow your rules and provide your reasoning.

Ways that the Samsa family benefit each other is their understanding of things. Which seems strange, because this is also what can harm each other. One reason that that benefits this family is that their understanding of things can keep Gregor alive. His sister knows that something bad happened to him and she knows the basic things he needs to live, such as food and water.

Now, ways that the Samsa family can harm each other is their MISunderstanding. For example, Gregor's mom faints at the sight of hims. She just doesn't want to understand or understand at all. The father doesn't seem to want to care or listen to what anyone has to say. He ends up hurting his son due to his misunderstanding of what happened to him.

Rules
1. Communication
-Most basic of things. Listen to on another.
2. Trust
3. Understand the situation
4. Be honest
5. Stick together

Gregor's family would probably get a D+ because they didn't follow all of my rules. Communication and trust were broken when Grete tried to tell her to come in the living room and her mom didn't trust what she was saying and turned around anyways. Her father didn't understand the situation and tried to kill Gregor. It also seemed to me that the family started to split apart and had different stories and didn't sit down to talk about the situation at hand. Hencefourth, I give this family a D+.

The Metamorphosis chapter 1

Please write at least two paragraphs on one of the following questions. You DO NOT have to respond to BOTH, you PICK ONE.

From Gregor's point of view, what might be be some positive aspects of his metamorphosis into an insect?

What circumstances in Gregor's life might have caused him to feel dehumanized even before the metamorphosis took place?

Some circumstances in Gregor's life that makes him feel dehumanized is literally his life itself. He has a solid, no-going-back attitude with a firm schedule and never misses a day of work. He lives at home with his worrying family that always takes care of him and if he's just a little late from home or doesn't get up in time, his parents will start to worry about him. It seems like he's always focus on his goals and not himself from time-to-time.

A few more circumstances is the fact he's never late for anything. He's only doing what's necessary and he's a box. You can push him and he'll fall to one side. A circle you an push and it will keep going. But he only seems to care about his work life and not his personal life. He has no social life whatsoever. To prove my point, he's never taken a day off work for 5 years. 5 years! Not even a sick day. He's a robot in life, just doing what's required.