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Texas EOC English 1: 2.8 Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts 44 Views
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- 00:00
We speak student and here's your schmuck du jour brought to you by transformations
- 00:07
how do caterpillars pass the time in their cocoons not by reading the [a caterpillar awakening in a bed]
- 00:11
metamorphosis by Franz Kafka all right reading reading Gregor Sams textile
- 00:17
[man mumbling while reading]
- 00:22
[mumbling continuing]
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- 00:29
the alarm clock ticking
- 00:33
[still mumbling]
- 00:43
right well the setting of this scene is important because it does what and here
- 00:47
the potential answer all right well this question asked us to think about the
- 00:53
symbolism of the passages setting so let's see we know the Gregor is in his [A man in a bedroom stood beside a bed]
- 00:59
tiny bedroom with depressing rain drizzling down the windows this place is not
- 01:03
going to make it into architectural digest we'll start by killing option A
- 01:08
Gregor has turned into a roach and vermin do like small places which could be [A man transformed into a roach on a bed]
- 01:12
why they like New York City so much but this is just a random fact and we're on the
- 01:18
hunt for deeper meaning you can see how somebody might think D is right there [A man shooting a deeper meaning sign]
- 01:24
doesn't seem to be much in Gregor's room besides the textile samples that he uses
- 01:28
in his traveling salesman gig well this might be interpreted as showing just how
- 01:32
focused he is on his work but we have a feeling we're something bigger going on [a roach holding out two textiles]
- 01:36
here how about option B the passage is totally said in Gregor's home but his
- 01:41
home life just doesn't seem like the most important thing the few details
- 01:45
[roach looking depressed while ironing] that were told about his room make it seem so small and depressing it's the
- 01:49
kind of place a realtor would call er charming and we all know what that means
- 01:53
anyway we need an answer choice that make something of this sad little room
- 01:57
like oh say answer see throughout the scene Gregor never comes out of his tiny [a brown door with a keep out sign]
- 02:02
bedroom its walls represent the way his families and employers and even his own
- 02:07
expectations have been trapped in a life he hates sorry Gregor maybe a little [a woman with a plate of food outside a door]
- 02:12
Feng shui will except the place
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