ENGLISH 1C06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Smelling Salts, Gm Family Ii Engine, Asthma
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Learns how to use his feet: his taste in food changes, he likes to crawl about on the ceiling and walls of the room. But he still was taking almost all of gregor"s paycheck: gregor is not angry at it but rationalizes that it is good, he calls it cheerful information . One sticks in gregor"s back and injures him badly: why apples, biblical parallel to an exile after eating of the aple, theme of knowledge. Part ii: loses his form, loses communication, loses job, loses standing in the family ( as the breadwinner/ most important) Part iii: metamorphosis does not only apply to gregor, father, when story began he was a lazy old man who did nothing. At the end be becomes a sluggish employee: grete, when story begins is a 17 year old girl who can do nothing but dress well and play the violin.