"Eyes Wide Shut" Unit Plans

The unit called "Eyes Wide Shut," which included Franz Kafka's novella "The Metamorphosis" will include these two final texts: "A Hunger Artist," and Plato's Allegory of the Den." Click here for a link to the short story and at the left for links to Plato:

http://records.viu.ca/~Johnstoi/kafka/hungerartist.htm

After reading "A Hunger Artist," in your notebook, copy and then answer the following questions:
1. How does the hunger artist justify or rationalize his choices?
2. What do you notice about how the public responds to the hunger artist at various times?
3. How is the hunger artist like celebrities in our culture today?
4. What connections can you make, thematically, between "The Metamorphosis" and "A Hunger Artist"?
5. What questions and comments do you have about this story?

A unit test on "Eyes Wide Shut" will be on Friday, December 5, 2008.

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