02.04 researching and organizing information you will complete an informational research chart for a problem/solution article by gathering information on an everyday monster. select the informational research chart. important: immediately save the worksheet to your computer or drive. select one everyday monster to research. you may choose from the vulture, the komodo dragon, or the jellyfish. begin your research by using the two sources provided for your everyday monster. vulture source 1 vulture source 2 komodo dragon source 1 komodo dragon source 2 jellyfish source 1 jellyfish source 2 (optional step) locate a third online or printed source if you need additional information. fill out information in each box of your informational research chart. save your work to your computer or drive. submit your work in 02.04 researching and organizing information. if you cannot save your worksheet, you can type the information into a document and submit.

the metamorphosis is based on an evident father-son problem. this story shows, as a result of the unthinkable transformation of the son in an insect, the deformation and destruction of the individual caused by the authoritarian and hierarchical structures of the family. the narrative begins with the transformation into an insect of enormous proportions of the traveling salesman gregor samsa, a lonely, introverted and submissive, who keeps his family with his work. when he worked, he was appreciated by everyone, but, now that he can not work, he is despised, especially by his father, but this is going to be joined, painfully for the protagonist, first his mother and, finally, his own sister, grete, with whom he had held a special relationship of complicity and affection for many years.

condemned by a deep sense of responsibility, gregor fears the reaction that his frightful aspect will incite in his family. he feels guilty for not being able to continue being useful to the beings he maintained. his own family, however, is ashamed and runs away from him, and even tyrannizes and resists him. the father, of a severe and despotic character, humiliates him and treats him with great cruelty. all his attempts to escape from the confinement to which he is subjected in his own room fail before the hostile rejection of the beings that surround him. prisoner in his lair and unable to continue playing the only function of making money he had, finally chooses, with the consent of his parents and sister, to die of starvation. with this, he is freed from a servile and unhappy existence. the family appreciates gregor while he fulfills the interests. but when he is unable to continue earning money, it becomes a problem, a shame, and family relationships begin to become tense, until coexistence becomes impossible.