Franz Kafka

Kafka was born in Prague to a middle class Jewish family on July 3, Kafka had a strained relationship with his overbearing father. Family conflicts became a common theme in Kafka’s fiction.

 Kafka showed an early interest in literature, but at the age of eighteen he attended the German University to study law.  After graduating, he worked in a government insurance office.  This photo was taken in 1906, the year Kafka graduated from law school.

 Kafka’s stories feature bizarre situations and characters that are often lonely and searching for meaning. The Metamorphosis was one of Kafka’s few works published during his lifetime. The Metamorphosis was one of Kafka’s few works published during his lifetime.

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Start Event Problem Ending A little mouse with a problem. The mouse said that the world is becoming smaller every day. In the corner, the trap is into which the mouse is running. The cat said, “You have to change the direction in which you are running.” Plot Analysis

1. What might the mouse running symbolize? 2. What might the walls symbolize? 3. What might the traps in the corner symbolize? 4. What might the cats symbolize? 5. The mouse now is in the last room, what is its problem? 6. Is it possible for the mouse to change the direction? 7. What’s the moral of A Little Fable?