VocabMelancholy- a depressed state
Amelioration- to make tolerable
Entourage- one's attendants or associates
Outline
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Gregor Samsa woke from his dreams as a
monster bug
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Armor hard back
o
Brown arched abdomen
§ Divided
into rigid bow-like sections
o
Numerous legs
§ Small
compared to the rest of him
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Lived in a proper human room
o
Slightly smaller
o
Flowered wallpaper
o
Gilt frame hanging on wall
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Felt an itchy spot near the top of his
abdomen
o
Covered in small white spots
o
Felt it with a leg
§ Felt
like a cold shower all over
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Hates his boss
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Slept through alarm and missed the train
to work
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Mother knocked at 6:45
o
Answered and his voice was different
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Father and sister also came knocking
§ Sister
didn’t leave
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Hard to get out of bed
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Too wide
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Uncontrollable limbs
§ Small
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Eventually threw himself from bed
o
Hit the bedpost
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Got out of bed head first
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Still in bed at 7
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Decided to try and rock out of bed
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Manager showed up at Gregor’s house
o
Gregor fell out of bed
o
Boss went to the door
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Whole family is trying to talk to him
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Sister began to sob
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Manager is very mad
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Gregor responds
§ Moved
close to chest in his response
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Try to get on top of it to open door
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Slid off onto a chair
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Mother sent sister to get the doctor
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Father sent servant to get a locksmith
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Was excited to see that everyone was
trying to help
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Pushed himself to the door with the
chair
o
Grabbed onto door
§ Has
sticky stuff on legs
o
Tries to turn key
§ Has
no teeth
o
Used his jaws to turn key
§ Hurt
himself in the process
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Brown fluid came out
§ Got
the door open
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Manager backed away
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Mother passed out
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Father seemed angry
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Manager wanted to get away (scared
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Gregor didn’t want him to leave for feat
that he may lose his job
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Gregor realized that walking on all his
legs was much easier
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Mother wakes and runs into the kitchen
terrified, and crying for help
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Manager leaves the apartment
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Father tries to get Gregor back into his
room
o
Uses a newspaper and Manager’s cane
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Gregor’s pleading makes no sense anymore
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Gregor is going back to his room
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He is too big to fit through the door
§ Made
it through
§ Hurt
himself in process
§ Left
blotches on the white door
§ Got
stuck in the door
§ Father
pushed him in and left Gregor bleeding
Part
II
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Awoke well-rested from his sleep
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Was really awakened by the smell of
food.
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Someone – presumably his sister – had left sweetened milk for him
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He did not want it though
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Hid himself under the couch
o
It made him feel better
o
Spent all night there
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Sister came in his room in the early
hours
o
Noticed he hadn’t touched his food
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She brought him many different foods to
see what he would eat
§ On
old newspaper
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He ate the rotten food she brought him
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Sister fed him everyday
o
Once in the morning when parents were
asleep
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Once after the noon meal when parents
napped and the servant went on an errand
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Servant girl begged to be let go and she
was
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Family business failed
o
That was why Gregor was supporting the
family
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Planned to send his sister to school
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The family didn’t have much money saved
up to live on
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Was losing his vision
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When the sister came in she would
immediately open the window
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He liked hanging from the ceiling
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Sister removed the chest and writing
desk
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Mother didn’t want to remove the chest
§ Should
leave the room as it was so that when Gregor wasn’t sick anymore his room would
be the same
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Did he really want to have everything
removed from his room?
§ Wouldn’t
he then forget his human past?
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Sister didn’t care
§ Removed
chest
§ She
and Mother began cleaning out his room
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Climbed on the wall to conceal the gilt
frame he made
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Mother saw the brown splotch and fainted
§ Sister
went to revive her
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Gregor followed her
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She got scared and slammed the door in
his face
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He worried and began climbing on
everything
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Got dizzy and fell
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Father came home and sister said that
Gregor had escaped
§ He
hadn’t so he went straight to his room to wait to be allowed back in
§ Father
didn’t believe it and began chasing Gregor and throwing apples at him
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One hit him and he was severely wounded
Part
III
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Gregor suffered from his wound for over
a month
o
No one removed the apple
o
Couldn’t crawl around
o
Family let him listen to their dinner
conversation
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Father never took off his bank uniform –
even to sleep
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Father slept in his chair and didn’t get
up until Mother and Sister lifted him up
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Sister began not taking very good care
of him
o
Food was thrown in, and swept out
o
His room was dirty
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Cleaning woman came in once and was not
afraid of him
o
She would open his door each day and
night
o
She came in one day and Gregor looked at
her
§ She
prepared to throw a chair at him
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Gregor wasn’t eating
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Anything useless was tossed into Gregor’s
room by the cleaning woman
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Sister played her violin one night
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Gregor loved it and began creeping out
of his room
o
He is seen by the three boarders
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Sister tells family they should get rid
of the “monster”
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Sister slammed Gregor in his bedroom
door
o
He couldn’t move at all
o
The pain was going away
§ Even
the pain of the rotten apple covered in white dust in his back didn’t hurt much
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Around three am Gregor breathed his last
breath
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Cleaning woman found Gregor dead
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Sister noticed now that he was dead that
Gregor hadn’t been eating
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Mr. Sampsa ordered the boarders out
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Cleaning woman cleaned Gregor’s room and
left
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The family took a tram ride and then
realized their new dreams were to find a husband for Sister
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