If all of the elements of this lesson plan are employed, students will develop the following powers, skills, and understanding:
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Students will be able to analyze the use of a central metaphor in fiction and generate their own for a fictional narrative.
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Students will interpret the text through another artistic medium.
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Students will compare and contrast Kafka's imagery in "A Hunger Artist" with contemporary manifestations and portrayals of deliberate starvation, from hunger strikes to the "pro-ana" community.
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Students will research "slum tourism" and other manifestations of engaging with poverty and suffering in exchange for money.
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Students will research Kafka's...
