Today in class we began writing a thesis (claim) statement about what Kafka may have been saying about life with his story that starts with a transformed child, one who takes cares of his family, and ending with a transformed child, one who may begin to take care of her family. We saw that there's good evidence suggesting that there was no reflection on what they really learned from the situation--either about themselves or about their son/brother, Gregor. There merely appears to be an unwarranted happiness that is the result of the family's abandonment of the one who had attempted to save them all. It appears, too, that Gregor's attempt to be the family's rescuer is just as unwarranted as his family's ultimate rejection of him. We also connected the fact that Gregor does recognize that he has to "go away" but he never really figures out what--if anything--he did wrong. Thus, he doesn't qualify for an Aristotilian tragic hero, but he may qualify for other things, especially things that we have seen emerge in Thomas Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor.
Below, I am posting the paper we started in class as a sample SPESsay. Remember that it is just a sample--you should only copy it for its format and structure, not its eloquence or content.
Below, I am posting the paper we started in class as a sample SPESsay. Remember that it is just a sample--you should only copy it for its format and structure, not its eloquence or content.