Choose one of the following questions based on Kafka's story and write 250 words then write an additional 100-150 words that explain how R. Crumbs' version adapts this aspect of the story. For example, if you answer #1, the second part of your journal would focus on the illustration and what is included in the images that convey a similar perspective or portray it differently. 1. What evidence suggests that the hunger artist in Kafka’s story symbolizes the artist in a more general sense? How does the story characterize “the artist,” her/his relationship to art, toward her/his audience?

2. Given the other connotations or reasons for fasting in our culture, what other things might the hunger artist symbolize in addition to “the artist”?

3. What is the symbolic significance and/or role of the other characters in the story, especially the impresario and the panther?