Friday, January 9, 2015

Metamorphosis Discussion

Here is the prompt:

Trace the use of structure- how the text begins, how suspense is built, and pacing is used to create tension. Each group will bring evidence from the text to the discussion.

Post your answer below.

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  1. I believe the tension is built because of how the slow the pacing is. While reading this story I wanted it to hurry and get to the important part of where it tells all. I also noticed how the text began. I didn't like it. I gave you everything you needed to know about the story in the beginning of the story. The first sentence actually, it didn't make sense to me.

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  2. Pacing indeed added tension because as there was a lot of repetitive actions it created anticipation. This anticipation creates tension in the story because the more that is added the more the curiosity of it all takes place.

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  4. The pacing of the story was very slow. This did not make me interested or keep my attention. I found myself skimming through the story in order to get to the end. I don't believe there should of been page after page of Gregor trying to get out of bed. I wish there was more to his worries instead of work and his family. Some possible reasons for what may have happened to him, maybe as a teaser, since the way The Collections snipped a part of the story left me dissatisfied.

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  5. The slow pacing caused tension in the story. The text states "the chief clerk in the next room..he's turning the key". This makes the reader anxious to what will happen when his family and chief see him, which causes tension.

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  6. The text begins by stating and describing his transformation. The suspense was built when his parents, sister, and chief clerk wanted Gregor to open the door. They also did it repeatedly, adding pressure to Gregor, build the suspense. The pacing was some-what slow. The story just kept describing gregors reaction and actions as he is the vermin. The tension reached its near the end of the story, when gregor did his best to open the door while being the vermin.

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  7. In the beginning of the text, the author describes Gregor's initial reaction to his transformation. The author makes it seem as if transforming into a vermin is impossible by describing Gregor's state as being "...brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections". Suspense is built throughout the text by stalling, using slow pacing, his family from coming inside, he kept thinking about what to do in order for him to get up properly. (Lines 304-310)

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  8. When the story began, the pace was started as slow when Gregor focuses on himself being late for his train going to work but then soon found out he was transformed into a vermin. "One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armor-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections." Suspense was built by Gregor's family trying to figure out what was wrong with Gregor, for him to be so late for work.

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  9. The text begins with a man named Gregor who wakes up as a vermin.The author spends a good amount of the introduction trying to get the character out of bed. The pacing of the excerpt from "Metamorphosis" starts out relatively slow due to the long introduction but when he finally gets out of his bed and his parents and boss see him the pacing of the text speeds up. Though the pacing changes, the feel of tension and suspense never changes. Him being in his room all day trying to get up and out builds tension because it makes the reader think about whether his parents and boss will accept him when the realize that he became a vermin or not. When he finally gets out of the room and his family sees him they all react differently. His mom says "Oh my!' and his boss runs away. The fact that the excerpt ends right there leaves the audience with plenty of question like "Will Gregor ever be human again?" and "Will he ever be able to live a successful life again?", never allowing tension and suspense subside.

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  10. The text begins really slow, it start and continues for a while with him trying to get out the bed and him just thinking about how he regrets picking his job. Saying how it's the same story, all the pressure of travel, worrying about train connections, eating nasty food on the run. He builds suspense while Gregor is trying to get out of bed and everyone in the house is trying to get him to open the door and the longer he takes the more they worry and overreact. His sister and mother is crying and going to get a doctor and a locksmith while his father and boss is standing by the door trying to talk him out. The pacing in the beginning and the middle of the story was really slow it took him like an hour and thirty minutes to get out of bed and like thirty minutes to open the door and the whole entire time while he is struggles to do these simple tasks he has people yelling from the other side of the door and the whole entire time while you're reading this all you can think about is what will be everyones reaction when they see him.

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  11. Suspense is create in the beginning because it raises questions of how he became that thing and also how he struggles to get out of bed. In the very beginning he explains what he looks like but never says what he is. In the middle of the story suspense is even greater because his parents and boss are outside his room telling him to come out so you're wondering whats going to happen is he going to open the door, what are they going to say when he opens the door, are his parents going to look like him. A lot can happen so it feels like you're just in suspense like everyone else thats outside his room. The story is very detail and has a slow steady pace that help understand whats going on but still is very confusing because of how it starts.

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  12. The pacing of the story was slow. I got distracted in the story because of this. Pacing added tension which also added anticipation in certain parts of the story when I wasn't distracted. This anticipation creates tension within the story as a result of the additional that's added the additional the curiosity of it all takes place. Some of the pacing created tension because when he was first changed into the cockroach, he had to do everything very slowly compared to how he could at first. When he turned into the cockroach, he had to slow down the pace of his life, which slowed down the pace of the book.

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  13. The pace was slow, however, it is one of the factors that built suspense. The text started with Gregor finding himself to be a vermin. With the lines that stated "brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections".The text started to drag on as he tries to get out of bed and trying to open. However, this pace help create suspense. Gregor's thoughts as he try to get out of bed and also the actions a happening outside of his room.

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  14. The pace was really slow in the beginning because the author tries to describe alot in the story. It started out when Gregor woke up into a "horrible vermin". The author tends to describe alot of what was going on, making the pace sluggish. However it does create tension as you read because the story foreshadows whats going to happen in the future once Gregor's parents and the chief clerk finally sees him.

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  15. The text begins by describing Gregor's surroundings. The author gives you a clear visual of the room. The pacing is very slow, This creates suspension because you're constantly wondering what's going to happen next. The suspension really comes in towards the end. Lines 220-229 give the feeling of suspense because you wonder how everyone is going to react to hearing Gregor fall. Lines 230-240 create tension because you know that the clerk is going to have an issue with Gregor being late for work. Lines 390-400 create suspense because you wonder how everyone is going to react when Gregor finally opens the door and reveals himself. There is tension when he does open the door and everyone is shocked to see what he is.

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  16. The pacing of the story starts off extremely slow, but after the family discovers that he turns into a vermin the pace of the story changes dramatically.The pacing of the story also builds suspense because, not everyday does someone go from a hard working man into a vermin so it draws the readers attention even more. Gregor's death also created tension because very rarely does the main character of a story die , so Gregor's death caught me by surprise. Lastly by Gregor having to witness his family struggle without him creates tension because nobody wants to see the people they love or once loved suffer.

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  17. In the text, pacing seemed to be an important element emphasized by Kafka. He used it to set the tone and allow the reader to get a full understanding of what was going on. At the beginning of The Metamorphosis, the pacing was very slow. It allowed us to get every detail of when Gregor was being late for his train going to work, how he felt when he first saw himself, and when he finally realized he was a vermin. This is seen in the beginning of the text, which says "One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams." It then continues to go further into detail talking about how he had insect like features.

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  18. Suspense was built up in the story by the way it was narrated. The story was slow but while reading it time kept skipping everywhere. Days would pass by and I would still be eagerly reading waiting to get to the good part. Only to realize that the whole story was the good part.

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  19. The beginning of the story was paced really slowly. It begins with Gregor noticing his metamorphosis into vermin and trying to move out of bed. The pacing is slow because a good portion of the text describes Gregor's discomfort with his physique, an "itch up his belly" and his legs he was "unable to control". Tension builds up as time passes on and people outside his room constantly urge Gregor to come out. Tension builds up because we know Gregor's difficulty to move will make be a major complication in leaving his room, and we know that when others realize what he's become, negative responses will follow. Suspense and pacing build up to the climatic ending, where Gregor opens his door and reveals his new self. Suspense slowly built up to this moment, where much of the action takes place, "retreating as if driven by an invisible force", Gregor's mother "sinking down onto the floor", and his father looking "hostile", "clenching his fists as if wanting to knock Gregor back into his room".

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  20. This text builds suspension by having a slow pace. The pacing is a important element of a story. The faster the pace of your story the more open ended your story will be. If its open ending people will have questions about what your story is about. This text is slow, it starts off talking about how he was trying to get out of bed and his thoughts about how he regrets picking the job he has now. In lines 220-229 it builds suspense because it keeps you wondering how everyone will react to Gregor falling. This story gives a lot of details. for example, the text says "brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections", which describes a vermin. This gives so much detail that if you know your vermins that you can kind of tell that it is a cockroach.

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  21. The text begins by Gregor waking up as a verminous creature. Also the text builds suspension by having a extremely slow pace. The pace is very important to building the story later on.

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  22. The structure of "Metamorphosis" is very slow. In the beginning, the author described Gregory as a vermin. It took a while for the author to get going because the introduction was long. The introduction talked about Greg when he first saw himself as a vermin and being late for the train. When society (Parents, Boss,etc.) sees him, the story is speeds up. This is when suspense builds up. It's hard for Gregory to get out the room and when other people see him, they will say bad things. When his family saw him, they had diverse feelings. Like his Dad wanted to knock him back to his room when he came out. (Lines 410 and down)

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  23. The text “Metamorphosis” begins with a very slow pace with Gregor waking up as a "vermin" worried about missing his train because his family depends on him to provide for the family. The suspense is slow paced at first but dramatically increased very quickly once Gregor's family realizes that he hasn't left for work yet and hears his voice has changed so much to the point where they can't even make out anything that he's saying.

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  24. The text starts out at a slow place with gregor mostly lying in his bed and complaining about his life. It picks up speed and reaches its fastest paced moment when gregor's family and some from his work tries to get gregor to open the door and as he struggles to do so.

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  25. The text is organized in a strategic way that fully utilizes suspenseful techniques, starting off by delving directly into his suppose transformation into a *vermin* with no backstory whatsoever explaining how that occurred perfectly caught reader's curiosity at how the predicament occurred in the first place.The pacing was smoothly slow yet gave descriptive words that perfectly set the mood of drama further pushing forward the plot while adding the suspense to keep reader's attention in check, such as when his Gregor's mother knocked on his door asking why he was still at home, which led to his father and sister finding out as well adding tension, "what is going to happen now that everyone is crowding at his door?" or something like that haha :D. Each event was organized in such a way to allow the readers to obtain some information on the predicament at hand while keeping some mysteries in the shadows. Gregor turning into a bug with no explanation gave the reader's curiosity, him turning into a bug hindered him from going to work thus leading his mother to knocking on the door asking whether he was alright, leading the father and sister wondering why he was still home as well, and with Gregor currently not at work his supervisor eventually came to his house to inspect the problem adding the spice onto the tension.

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  26. The text "Metamorphosis" is a very slow paced story. However, the beginning was straight to the point. In paragraph one of the story it states, "One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin." Once the story talks about Gregor turning into a vermin, the pacing of the story goes really slow. The middle of the plot mainly talks about how hard it was for Gregor just to get out of his bed and to open the door. This is where the pacing of the story is slow. But as the story continues, the suspense builds up when Gregor finally opens the door and his family (including the chief clerk) sees what Gregor actually looks like.

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  27. "The Metamorphosis," begins by describing what had happened to Gregor Samsa. " One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin." This makes the reader curious as to how a human can be transformed into a vermin overnight. Curiosity builds suspense because the reader wants to know how this could happen. Another element that builds suspense in "The Metamorphosis," is pace. The story has a very slow pace. This makes the reader anxious as to when a major event, such as the climax will occur. Most of the story describes Gregor's transformation from human to vermin and his inner struggle to reveal himself to his family and boss. Throughout the story his family tries to coax him out of his room. They even threaten to call a locksmith to unlock the door. Finally, at the end of the story, Gregor opens the door. This climax relieves the suspense and tension created by the curiosity of the reader and the pace of the story.

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  28. The pacing for the story Metamorphosis wasn't very slow nor too fast. In the beginning it was a little slow but built some suspense. It started by the author describing what had happened to Gregor that morning. "One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin." This line builds suspense for the reader because the reader would want to know how this happened and how it could happen to a human. The text slows down a tad bit more during the middle. It spends a lot of time talking about how Gregor is struggling to get out of his bed. More suspense is built when the text begins to speed up and talks about how Gregor is finally able to get out of bed and get to his door. The text becomes more suspenseful when Gregor finally opens his door and his family gets to see him for the first time since his transformation.

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