"The Refusal" by Franz Kafka ENGL 2 - 5-6BB by Ms. Noyola https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t Answer the questions using the story and discuss in your groups. en-us 2020-09-15 02:24:16 UTC 2025-11-20 07:45:23 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/694356072/30e8c7e1635d7db9114311f1261d3490/e9a788b1_27cb_40a1_a529_f0b932406291_bb5ee93f_6d0d_43a8_8d56_5afbcfc6ac9a_v1.png What can the reader infer about the tax-collector’s power? Where does his power come from, and how is it expressed? Use evidence from the text to support your inferences. enoyol08 https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/746407898 2020-09-15 02:24:16 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/746407898 Read the following dictionary entry: Petition nounA (formal, written request to an authorityA solemn appeal to a superiorAn application to a court for a judicial action) Which definition most closely matches the meaning of petition as it is used in paragraph five? Write the correct definition of petition here and explain how you figured out the meaning. enoyol08 https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/746407901 2020-09-15 02:24:16 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/746407901 What role does the ceremony play in life in the small town? How do most townspeople feel about this custom? Support your answer with evidence from the text. Support your answer with evidence from the text. enoyol08 https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/746407904 2020-09-15 02:24:16 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/746407904 Use context clues to determine the meaning of exceptional as it is used in paragraph five. Write your definition here and identify clues that helped you figure out its meaning. enoyol08 https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/746407906 2020-09-15 02:24:16 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/746407906 What do you know about the relationship between the government, located in the faraway capital, and the small town? Cite evidence from the text to support your answer. enoyol08 https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/746407908 2020-09-15 02:24:16 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/746407908 How do the villagers view the capital and the people who represent it? Cite evidence from the text to support your answer. enoyol08 https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/746407910 2020-09-15 02:24:16 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/746407910 https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/748862651 Exceptional means something unusual. "Much as frogs breathe—except that with them it is normal, while here it was exceptional." meaning to me one of the frogs breathe was odd.]]> 2020-09-15 17:19:16 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/748862651 he makes the poor people suffer https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/748959644 2020-09-15 17:37:21 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/748959644 They view the capitol and the people who represent it as bad people that represent fear. https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/748964136 They are small, not strong but agile people, the most striking thing about them is the prominence of their teeth which almost overcrowd their mouths, and a certain restless twitching of their small narrow eyes. This makes them the terror of the children, but also their delight, for again and again the children long to be frightened by these teeth, these eyes, so as to be able to run away in horror.]]> 2020-09-15 17:38:14 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/748964136 The government in the story, takes away all of the citizens items in that small part of town and they make them suffer. There's a line that say "They take all of our stuff and they should also take us". https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/748968639 2020-09-15 17:39:02 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/748968639 Townspeople accept it because they feel they have no other choice. https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/748976597 2020-09-15 17:40:33 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/748976597 martia7322 https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/748992499 Exceptional means something that is not typical. "There's nothing exceptional about this" meaning that there is nothing out of the ordinary about it.]]> 2020-09-15 17:43:20 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/748992499 A solemn appeal to a superior https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/749029638 2020-09-15 17:50:45 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/749029638 https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/749051054 Exceptional means something that is uncommon or out of the ordinary. For example, "except with them its normal" meaning that he was breathing unusually like the frogs.]]> 2020-09-15 17:54:48 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/749051054 https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/749930868 exceptional can mean something incredibly out of the ordinary or important.]]> 2020-09-15 23:53:00 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/749930868 https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/750358635 They see the people who reprsent it as scary . Not really necessarliy because they have done bad things, but because of how they look . ''They are small, not strong but agile people, the most striking thing about them is the prominence of their teeth which almost overcrowd their mouths, and a certain restless twitching of their small narrow eyes. This makes them the terror of the children, but also their delight, for again and again the children long to be frightened by these teeth, these eyes, so as to be able to run away in horror. Even grownups ''

]]> 2020-09-16 03:28:19 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/750358635 The first definition best matches. https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/750465259 2020-09-16 04:34:34 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/750465259 the tax collectors power is strong like no other. His power originally comes majorly from the capital, which is expressed in an evil way even though it does help. group 3: "They don’t actually do anything evil....There are, of course, other factors contributing to it. " alvasc0240 https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/750503001 2020-09-16 04:54:01 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/750503001 alonbj4688 https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/750503493 The tax collectors power is like no other when whenit comes to make people suffer. The from every where and so the capital.
Paragraphs 4, 6.]]> 2020-09-16 04:54:17 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/750503493 he acts like a tax collector when he isn't and scares the people. https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/753632644 2020-09-17 00:55:49 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ofahq6sqk932h4t/wish/753632644