"The Refusal" by Franz Kafka ENGL 2 - 2-3B by Ms. Noyola https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14 Answer the questions using the story and discuss in your groups. en-us 2020-09-15 02:00:05 UTC 2020-09-17 14:55:50 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/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/746401195 2020-09-15 02:21:09 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/746401195 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/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/746402187 2020-09-15 02:21:36 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/746402187 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/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/746402405 2020-09-15 02:21:44 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/746402405 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/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/746402721 2020-09-15 02:21:52 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/746402721 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/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/746403352 2020-09-15 02:22:14 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/746403352 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/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/746403781 2020-09-15 02:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/746403781 The villagers are frightened by them. "Thus wherever the soldiers appear, our lively people grow silent." https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/748299988 2020-09-15 15:29:34 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/748299988 The relationship between the capital and town is the town is wayyyyy smaller in size . It was said in the article that the government had a really good relationship with the with the capital as to getting information. https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/748386258 2020-09-15 15:46:28 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/748386258 A petition in the story, 'The Refusal', means A formal, written request to an authority. In the story it states, "the man originally chosen to speak had regained his composure and was delivering his address." "he formulated the request." Therefore, this means he formulated a request and verbally read it to an authority figure. https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/748402847 2020-09-15 15:49:53 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/748402847 In paragraph 4, the sentence reads, "Not that he breathed with difficulty, it was just that he breathed so conspicuously, much as frogs breathe—except that with them it is normal, while here it was exceptional. " This just means he breathed abnormal, almost like frogs, but since it was normal for them, he was the exception. Exceptional meaning to be made acceptable as part of a generalization. https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/748469349 2020-09-15 16:04:11 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/748469349 The ceremony is a way for them to request things they need. The townspeople are neither overjoyed or upset over the situation; although, it can be nerve wreaking. As stated in the story, "Time after time one goes there full of expectation and in all seriousness and then one returns, if not exactly strengthened or happy, nevertheless not disappointed or tired. " https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/748497281 2020-09-15 16:09:45 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/748497281 They feel as if it is very important to them. They only have a neutral feeling towards it, As it was addressed in the story, trevmr3195 https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/748499482  "And now the strange fact is that without this refusal one simply cannot get along, yet at the same time these official occasions designed to receive the refusal are by no means a formality."]]> 2020-09-15 16:10:10 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/748499482 group 1 https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/748518363 The relationship between the government in the capital and the town is not that good. Most of the information they get is from government officials but they take months.]]> 2020-09-15 16:13:58 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/748518363 I can infer that the tax-collectors feel they are superior to society, especially the towns, as the villagers often feel they abuse their power. "One is almost under the impression that the people here say: “Now that you’ve taken all we possess, please take us as well.” The colonel's power comes from the government, and it is expressed as he accepts it. "the chief tax-collector is automatically the top official, and the colonel accepts the tradition just as we do. " https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/748520694 2020-09-15 16:14:27 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/748520694 The relationship between the government and small town is not very good as they are informed of little to no news. "Whereas we do get news of the frontier wars now and again, of the capital we learn next to nothing" https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/748570093 2020-09-15 16:24:18 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/748570093 The villagers view the capital and it's people, the soldiers, as frightening. "This makes them the terror of the children." "Even grownups probably never quite lose this childish terror" https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/748585005 2020-09-15 16:27:23 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/748585005 perla97904 https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/749225016 The villagers view the capital and the people who represent it (the soldiers) as overall mysterious and terrifying."the children long to be frightened by these teeth,these eyes,so as to be able to run away in horror.

]]> 2020-09-15 18:31:32 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/749225016 it was saying that he breathed how frogs breath and it is normal for a frog but different for him https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/749457832 2020-09-15 19:34:24 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/749457832 The villagers see the soldiers as puzzling quite terrifying to both children and adults (They don’t actually do anything evil, and yet they are almost unbearable in an evil sense.) mardt54851 https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/749898356 2020-09-15 23:29:34 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/749898356 The tax collectors feel superior from the society. This power comes since his office is very important to the government as in the article it says "the chief tax-collector is automatically the top official, and the colonel accepts the tradition just as we do" https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/749926014 2020-09-15 23:49:46 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/749926014 The relationship isn't that good when in need they were ignored. gonzll5196 https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/750289163 2020-09-16 02:48:53 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/750289163 https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/750289541 The villagers are terrified by the soldiers even if they don't do anything just by their presence they feel frightened and they leave. As in the text " they actually don't actually do anything evil". ]]> 2020-09-16 02:49:07 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/750289541 floreg0949 https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/750299904 Not really good. From what the text says, the government does keep them up to date with news, but other than that it doesn't seem to care the small town. "Whereas we do get news of the frontier wars now and again, of the capital we learn next to nothing—we civilians that is, for of course the government officials have very good connections with the capital; they can get news from there in as little as three months, so they claim at least."


]]> 2020-09-16 02:54:33 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/750299904 hereda5495 https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/750424834 The relationship is not the best because the government did not give the town any help at the time when they most needed it "Whereas we do get news of the frontier wars now and again, of the capital we learn next to nothing...".]]> 2020-09-16 04:10:46 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/750424834 https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/755526607 petition means a formal written request to an authority because it says ,"he formulated the request" and that it had been "refused". ]]> 2020-09-17 14:53:33 UTC https://padlet.com/enoyol08/7ya2ce0d5pawqb14/wish/755526607