man’s eyes had. Yet two days since the rat had become aware of the distasteful bug. It was then that he had heard the scarce scuttle of its hairy feet and turned to see the thing standing triumphantly atop the castle of biscuits. There it was. The cockroach. Its beady black stare gazing at the rat’s biscuits baking in the unyielding sun blazing boldly across the sky. The same sun that left the rat no choice but to plead for escape from his sun burnt panting throat and raw eyes‚ in his dark‚ dank‚
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It is incredible how similar both mentally and physically the life of a human and the life of a cockroach can be. In Franz Kafka’s novel The Metamorphosis‚ Gregor Samsa was a way for Kafka to show people what his life was like‚ and how he felt unneeded and isolated‚ like an insect. Gregor was a fictional parallel to the author himself. The two men suffered from depression‚ lived with abusive fathers‚ stayed inside most of the time and became physically weak‚ and worked a lot to please their families
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Searing heat‚ no breeze‚ and glaring sun attempted to transform me into the human equivalent of a crispy baked potato. It was a sleepy Sunday afternoon‚ twelve on the dot by my wristwatch. I plopped down on the wooden doorstep of my father’s trailer‚ shielded from the floating‚ flaming ball of assorted rock and metal in the sky‚ by a canopy of corrugated tin. The sky was a vibrant‚ yet non-aggressive‚ shade of azure‚ interwoven with swirls of pale cotton. The sun shone on the majestic‚ yet barren
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attempts to come to terms with the physical change experienced by his protagonist‚ Gregor Samsa. The reader is thrust upon an immediate transition of Gregor‚ as he ‘awoke one morning from troubled dreams [to find] himself changed into a monstrous cockroach.’ (Kafka‚ Hofmann2007‚ p.87). Upon the opening of Metamorphosis‚ readers are stripped away from all traditional expectations of
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(trupin). The allergens are the paint chipping leading to bad overall health and contribute asthma in young children (Neighmond). As the apartments are in bad conditions there is also exposure to mold. In unsanitary living environments‚ there is cockroach dropping and that is also a trigger for asthma. People of lower socioeconomic status cannot afford to live in a nice neighborhood without any triggers. People in this status cannot afford those medications to treat the symptoms of asthma‚ as many
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the solution. We made sure not to put too much vinegar because this can make the smell bad. After making the product‚ we washed 2 rags‚ one with our product and one with commercial insect repellent fabric softener. We placed them in boxes with one cockroach each and observed. We also made another set-up that wasn’t washed with any fabric softener for our control set-up. After observing for 20 minutes‚ we concluded that our product can really repel insects such us cockroaches. To those who are planning
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Antoinette Cosway‚ has never felt at place in the world and this is apparent in the beginning of the novel. The Cosway family has lost their wealth leading them to feel out casted in their own community. She is constantly tormented about being a “white cockroach” from people around her and it again once she leaves her
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The novel In The Castle Of My Skin by Barbadian novelist George Lamming and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys‚ a native of Dominica both deal in-depth with the lives of their characters during colonialism. Similarly each author tackles the idea of alienation and loss of identity placed upon their characters‚ through such literary techniques as point of view‚ setting and characterization. One can successfully compare and contrast the novels and seek to attain a greater appreciation and understanding
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his room and “Battered shut” the door with his cane. “Raindrops could be heard plunking against the tin window-ledges made Gregor quite melancholy.” The word “melancholy” denotes sadness or depression of sprits; gloom. Then when he wakes up as a cockroach‚ he is locked in his room. Gregor is isolated from his dad‚ mom‚ and sister Grete because they locked him in his bedroom at the end of the story. Miss Emily chooses to isolate herself from the townspeople by shutting her door and not let anyone
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