Street Art

Some qualities that I noticed and can transfer into my own art are that they are not super fancy or super well drawn, most are just sort of out lines or sketches.  Also that most only use one or two colors not a hole array of them.  They were also very strange and unique like something you normally wouldn't think about doing or drawing.  They were very simple but eye catching,  they made you look and look again and want to take picture because of how strange and unique they were.


Some of the things that most amazed me were how much of a risk they took, the size of them and how a lot of people thought that they were vandals and bad people.  They tried to arrest them when they should be applauding them, they are opening our eyes up to a new style of art that may be considered vandalism when it is art that actually contributes something to the world.  Also the simplicity of it but it conveyed such a much bigger message than other more complex paintings.


The artists used their craft to convey their message by making it strange and eye catching.  In doing this they make you think about it and see the real meaning.  They also make it very large and prominent so you always see it.  They even go to great lengths such as climbing on steep roof tops and climbing up on bill boards so they can get it in a point were it is harder to take away their picture.

Harrison Bergeron

My cartoon is showing how Diana Moon thinks everyone should be.  The pill bottle is a prescription for SAME.  This show that she is trying to make everyone the same as everyone else.  Also she herself is different than everyone else because she thinks that she is better than everyone else and does not need a handicap.

The Metamorphosis Chapter 3

I think that Kafka turned the protagonist, Gregor, into a beetle/roach because he wanted to show that things didn't aways fallow a pattern.  He seems like the kind of person who would try to change the thought process to make people think out of the box.  He was probably trying to bend how we think and make us admit that not everything makes sense.  As in one day you could be a traveling sales man and the next day you could wake up a beetle/roach and your whole life would change including how you view reality. 


His writing is really dark and satanical not like a fairy tale with a princess so it wouldn't make sense to put a frog in a story that is completely demented.  Also because people would associate the frog with a fairy tale that ends happily forever ever after not were the main character who transformed dies at the end.  Also I've never seen a writer like him he is dark and people say that this was one of the stories he was most proud of.  Another reason could be simply the time he was in or that he may not have heard many stories that had the protagonist become a frog.  No matter what it was I still think that he is an interesting writer.

The Metamorphosis Chapter 2

The Samsa family benefit and harm each other in many ways.  One way that they benefit each other is that they look out for each other and keep each other from making bad decisions.  Such as when Gregor's father and sister kept his mom from coming in and seeing him as a cockroach in this scene, "In any event, his mother comparatively soon wanted to visit Gregor, but his father and sister restrained her, at first with reasons which Gregor listened to very attentively and which he completely endorsed."  I think in most peoples opinions it was a good thing that they restrained her because if she had rushed in like she intended to she probably would have fainted again and things would have gotten worse from there.  An example of when they can harm each other is at the beginning of the book when they where all bothering and interrogating him on why he wasn't at work and wasn't up.  They weren't even letting him even respond to one of their questions or remarks before they asked another one.  " 'Gregor,' a voice called - it was mother! - 'It's quarter to seven.  Don't you want to be on your way?' ... his father was knocking on one side door, weakly but with a fist.  'Gregor, Gregor,' he called out, 'what's going on?' And, after a while, he urged him on again in a deeper voice, 'Gregor, Gregor.'  At the other side door however, his sister knocked lightly. 'Gregor? Are you alright? Do you need anything?' "  And that was only the first part of the conversation.

1. Respect each others boundaries, personal space.
2. Don't crowed each other.
3. Don't ask so many questions that you practically interrogate the person. 
4. Say out of each others personal things.
5. Don't move each others things without asking them first.

The Samsa family in my book get a C.  I thought the Samsa family deserved a C because they crowded, interrogated, broke Gregor's boundaries, and moved his things without asking.  The only reason they passed was because everything the daughter did she did because she thought she was being kind and helping Gregor live more comfortably.

The Metamorphosis Chapter 1

What circumstances in Gregor's life might have caused him to feel dehumanized even before the metamorphosis took place?

      Some circumstances that may have made him feel dehumanized before the transformation of how he was treated at work.  One thing at work that may make him feel dehumanized was the fact that his boss talked down to him like he was better than him and like he was a worthless vermin.  Also his coworkers treat him the same way.  I don't fully understand why he is working their other than that he is paying off a debt for his parents.  And even though he hasn't missed a day of work in over five years as soon as he is late for work the company sends a man to his house to see why he isn't at work.

      Other things that may have made him feel dehumanized before his metamorphosis is the fact that since he was so punctual whenever he would slip up he would be immediately questioned about it.  Also he may have thought that he was being used by his parents since the only reason he was working at his job was to pay off his parents debt.