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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 2.1 Reading Skills. What is the effect of juxtaposing the fantasy element of the story with information about Gregor's mundane daily duties?
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Hurry and here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
- 00:04
by franz kay's pest control exterminating existentialism one metaphor at
- 00:10
a time And we're just doing our part here from
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up to help chuck in a massive multimillion gregor samsa
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well famous opening You gotta know this once happened me
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gregor and turned around Oh god he thought in a
- 00:24
strenuous career that's kind of the same From up Each
- 00:28
morning i get here turn into a big batch All
- 00:34
right what is the effect of juxtaposing the fantasy element
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of the story With information about greg oars mundane daily
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duties You kind of do all right The answer's our
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technique All right well now reading the text will notice
- 00:52
that franz kafka demonstrates a wee tiny bit of understatement
- 00:56
Ordinarily if we woke up to find ourselves transformed into
- 00:59
a giant bug our reaction would be a little bit
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more severe unless we're spider man it's cool we probably
- 01:05
wouldn't be occupied worrying about our ordinary work schedule right
- 01:09
But greg or sam says mind is busy with the
- 01:11
trivialities of being a door to door salesman problems like
- 01:15
traveling day in and day out making train connections bad
- 01:19
an irregular food or contact with different people Now it's
- 01:24
not like he isn't bummed about turning into a giant
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roach or that road shit ties ing is an ordinary
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part of a salesman's career and he's certainly not starting
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a career is an exterminator although that would be yet
- 01:36
another ironic twist for our poor sap Instead if we
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really consider gregor's list of complaints will notice that these
- 01:43
air all things a cockroach also has to deal with
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Well the answer is d the juxtaposition suggests a similarity
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between the effects of his transformation and his duties because
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when your life's already spent trawling through the gutters being 00:01:58.516 --> [endTime] a giant bug Just isn't that big a change
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