A Personal Response to Confusion Solidified in Book Form
The narrative really feels disconnected from reality whenever the events do not match up with what the reader expects from that situation. Primarily, two scenes: the scene after K. talks to Ms. Bürstner where he suddenly and inexplicably kisses her and the tribunal scene. The scene with Ms. Bürstner made no sense. While I can understand why he may want to apologize for the way her room was used without her consent, why is he so intent on doing so as soon as she arrives late at night? Could he not have waited until the next morning or written a nice little letter? And then he feels required to act out the events of the day, going as far as yelling his name and stirring Captain Lanz. And
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I believe the largest assumption I have made so far has been that some official government body has executed everything that has happened to K. I assumed the initial gentlemen informing him of his arrest, which is not an actual arrest since they did not take him into any form of custody, were police officers. The supervisor, I assumed, was a higher-ranking government operative, maybe like a District Attorney. The sketchy judicial assembly, I assumed was exactly that, official proceedings in front of an actual judge with persons of importance in attendance. In reality, K makes similar assumptions as I have, and some of my assumptions may have been made because of him. He calls them police officers, and judges, and members of an official and “enormous organization” (Kafka, 32). Yet, for all I know and for all K. knows, this is all false. This could be some extra-governmental organization whose workings, whose purpose, and whose goals I cannot even begin to understand. Making it a government organization is, in a way, the easy way out because anyone can explain this confusion by attributing it to a corrupt and autocratic government targeting people as suits it. In terms of assumptions, I think that for the reader there are two options. They can try to impose order on the narrative, or they can trudge through in confusion and chaos until the narrative
Before the party, Jared was all about girls, grog and mates. After the incident he changes significantly, he doesn?t want to go to school and face the friends of the murdered girl that he could of helped, he feels guilty for not stepping in and stopping her having her virginity stolen form her, he now has to live with the image of Tracy being raped in his mind forever. He also acts differently when he is accused of the murder of Tracy.
1. The most crucial point in Chapter 1 is the call Tom receives from his lover. After Nick, Jordan, Tom, and Daisy spent a well mannered night together, the phone rings and Tom rushes to it. When Daisy follows behind it’s revealed it’s a mistress from New York. This is a crucial point as it reveals the falseness in Tom and Daisy’s relationship. Although it initially looked as if all was fine, a larger theme of disingenuousness is behind their relationship.
The following morning, Wharton, who runs in similar business circles as his wife’s second husband, finds himself having slightly strained conversations with Varick, the second husband. The author uses words such as “stammered,” and “hastily” to describe the initial conversation between the two men (225). His day continues and he finds himself trying to
I felt emotional while on page 100, paragraph 7 where he stated: “I guess I should have told someone, but I was too humiliated”. The fact that his father had abandoned the family and his brother who is his No 1 confidant was down with leukemia didn’t give him the courage to speak out, he was scared to the point of losing his mind, he became depressed, irritable, hypervigilant and ashamed thereby hating
At the start the playwright creates slight allusions that produce tension; Sheila wondered ‘half seriously what had happened to Gerald previous summer when Gerald never went near Sheila’. Lady Croft and Sir George have not come to the engagement feast and Eric is behaving quite anxiously. Eric’s strange behaviour on the cheerful occasion creates trepidation and foreshadows a rather surprising event which interests the audience.
Deborah Tannen, professor of linguistics at Georgetown University, argues that miscommunication between men and female results in different expectations for each gender. The two types of misalignments, according to Tannen, are topical and physical. She reports that topical behavior for men is based on doing activities together in large, hierarchical groups and frequently switching from topic to topic when they are talking, whereas women tend to have intimate conversations in smaller groups by sharing secrets and focusing on one topic. Tannen says that the physical behavior of men is to face away and focus on objects around them and periodically glance at the person that is talking to them whereas women make eye contact. She explains that
The general started to talk with Joby attempting to calm him. He told Joby that he cried the night before, because he knew that the battle was hard to fight. As well as he knew that many soldiers would die; however, he encouraged Joby explaining to him how important a drummer boy was in a battle. As a result, Joby perceived to be strong with them. After this conversation he changed his thoughts about the general and found him as someone who reminded him of a father. In addition, he discovered his sentimental side which made Joby reflect about the generals feelings and real
Her work as a wash woman becomes a crucial point of the story. She is not willing to engage in this confrontation until Syke pushes her to snap. She stands up to him in an act of both agency...
...e, because she’s too busy running around on some-” (Gaitskill 317) and these words show us how utterly “shitty” (Gaitskill 317) he feels, be it warranted or not. He’s faced with the reality that his wife and daughter are ‘leaving’ him behind, doing whatever necessary to detach themselves from his wretched stubbornness and consequently he’s left miserable and alone to mull over the bitter past and even more difficult present. He begins as a likeable character, but gradually becomes a self-righteous and hateful idiot. But, by the end the reader is left feeling extremely sympathetic for him. Though he’s in fact the bad guy, he gets us to view him as the bad guy whose evil is almost justified, or at least that it’s an inevitable symptom of his difficult childhood, poor marriage, extreme anxiety over what others think of him, and disapproval of his daughters lifestyle.
Because police investigators are usually under pressure to arrest criminals and safeguard the community, they often make mistakes. Sometimes, detectives become convinced of a suspect 's guilt because of their criminal history or weak speculations. Once they are convinced, they are less likely to consider alternative possibilities. They overlook some important exculpatory evidence, make weak speculations and look only for links that connect a suspect to a crime, especially if the suspect has a previous criminal record. Picking Cotton provides an understanding of some common errors of the police investigation process. During Ronald Cottons interrogation, the detectives did not bother to record the conversation “But I noticed he wasn 't recording the conversation, so I felt that he could be writing anything down”(79) unlike they did for Jennifer. They had already labelled Ronald Cotton as the perpetrator and they told him during the interrogation “Cotton, Jennifer Thompson already identified you. We know it was you”(82). Jenifer Thompson 's testimony along with Ronald Cotton 's past criminal records gave the detectives more reason to believe Ronald committed the crime. Ronald Cotton stated “ This cop Sully, though, he had already decided I was guilty.”(84). Many investigative process have shortcomings and are breached because the officials in charge make
In addition to his off-putting introduction, Kevin’s character has several other flaws throughout the novel. One such flaw is briefly touched on but very important. The fact that Kevin tries to force Dana to write his manuscripts for him is very problematic. Kevin attempts to play this off as a favor, and something that a wife should do for his husband, but readers should look into this scene more.
...has failed to help him deal with his inner emotions from his military experience. He has been through a traumatic experience for the past two years, and he does not have anyone genuinely interested in him enough to take the time to find out what's going on in his mind and heart. Kreb's is disconnected from the life he had before the war, and without genuine help and care from these people he lived with, and around all his childhood life, it's difficult to return to the routines that everyone is accustomed to.
These senseless declarations of misinformation lend themselves to absurd nature of the plot and pull us out of the story, making us question the meaning behind the work. Even during his introspective moments Jack always fails to discern the truth and continually makes poor interpretations about the people around him. Even so, these false statements and judgments are presented as unequivocal truth through the course of the story. However the reader can see that these declarations are erroneous which only adds to the overall vapidity of the
K. himself even notes the ability of the court to “[pull] some profound guilt from somewhere where there was originally none at all” (149).... ... middle of paper ... ... It’s easy to see, given this point of view, why he may have thought he could happily resume the engagement a few years later.
Problems in every society usually derive from one specific thing. Miscommunication. How many times have you gotten in an argument or a disagreement with someone over what someone said, and then you later found out that that person meant something completely different from what was running through your head? How many times have you gotten off the phone with someone—someone important, --and wondered, what in the world were he or she talking about? I often get this feeling after class.