Phil 256 Quiz 3-Take-home Due in class Wednesday, Oct 11 Name: All questions are
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Phil 256 Quiz 3-Take-home Due in class Wednesday, Oct 11 Name: All questions are about "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka 1. When Gregor Samsa does not show up for work the morning the story opens, his boss (or manager) comes to the Samsa house to see what's wrong. Describe the boss's reaction when he sees Gregor that morning. 2. What has Gregor aspired, or wanted, to do for his sister? . Name the object in Gregor's room that is pretty clearly the possession that means the most to him 4. Gregor at one point gets a fairly serious physical wound which was caused by his father. How did his father cause this wound? 5. What incident finally drives Gregor's sister to say to the rest of the family that Gregor has to go from the house?Explanation / Answer
1. When manager say gregor, he got terrified and backs away from gregor. when gregor gives a long speech asking the manager to put in a good word for him at work, since traveling salesmen are kept as a subject of negative gossip, but the office manager continues to back out of the apartment.
2. Gregor aspired, or wanted to send his sister to music school to study the violin.
3. Gregor, panicked at the thought of losing all the residue of his human life, he climbs the wall and covers the picture of the woman in furs to prevent it from being taken away by his mother and sister.
4. .Father misunderstands Grete, when she says that Gregor broke out and thinks Gregor attacked the mother, so he starts chasing Gregor around the room. The father throws fruit at Gregor, and hits him with an apple that becomes lodged in Gregor’s back.
5. Gregor heard Grete playing the violin, the boarders invite the family into the parlor. The boarders initially stand very close to Grete as she plays, but they soon lose interest. Gregor is enchants by the violin and slowly creeps out into the parlor. He want to take his sister back to his room and want to tell her about his plan to send her to music school.
One of the boarders spots Gregor and cries out. The father takes the boarders out of the parlor as they declare they will move out and not pay rent. So, Grete tells her parents that they have to stop believing that the bug is Gregor and says they must find a way to get rid of it.