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Why does the author not give anyone in the story a name and how does this affect the ploy

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Contrast between Traveller and Officer. Views on justice and criminality. Maybe we should discuss the relativity to our own justice system? Is the machine similar to solitary confinement?

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What was different about the sold Commandant and the New Commandant that made everyone stop praising him?

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Why is the officer so obsessed with the Old Commandant and his ways?

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Old Conmandment vs. New Commandment

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how does this relate to the prison system/ what we have been looking at?

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What is the significance of the ending of the story? (The Traveller returning to the tea house and eventually leaving from the harbor)

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The foreshadowing through out the story

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Did someone abuse the power they obtained?

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Theme of judgement

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What significance does the “machine” hold?

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Talk about the death penalty and if it’s right

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The idea of traditionalists (the officer)

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how the officer is proud of the apparatus and his machine

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theme of religion and power

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I love this story ! Kafka is great please read metamorphosis

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That procedure the officer did was crazy honestly it made me go "naah bro no way" which is kinda why I kept reading...

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the officers obsession with the apparatus and old commander’s ideals

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Do you look at the officer as a hero, villain, or a joke?

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Is the machine an ethical mechanism? Why does the Officer take such pride in the invention?

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how the machines meaning changed throughout the story

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The change in power between the officer and the condemned man

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The difference between the morality and ethics of the officer and the traveler. I also hope we talk about the side characters, the soldier and the condemned one, and their roles.

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One thing I found interesting was the Officer’s obsessiveness with the machine and it’s parts. How might he have reacted to the fact that the machine didn’t work the way it was supposed to when he was in it?

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The quote “The basic principle I use for my decisions is this: Guilt is always beyond a doubt” is one that should be discussed I believe.

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What significance does clothing have in the story?