Franz Kafka's The Fellowship

Our group chose to replicate the theme from the Fellowship by Franz Kafka. The Fellowship has multiple themes throughout the story but our group chose to incorporate a message of individuality into our children’s story. Our group decided on a story about a group of young monsters. In our children’s book, every young monster had two eyes, except for Pablo. Pablo lacked semblance from the rest of the monsters. He was a different species from the rest, he had one extremely large eye that was filled with a colorful rainbow as supposed to the rest of the monsters who had drab, green eyes. Pablo is the equivalent to the sixth member in the Fellowship. Both stories have a theme of individuality and exclusion and both characters differ from the rest. In our story we choose to emphasize the fact that Pablo was considered different and an anomaly compared to the rest by making his eye have such major effects on him and the other monsters. We used the fact that the other monsters had two small eyes to our advantage. We made it so all of the other monsters did poorly in school and Pablo was an amazing student due to the fact that he had one large, prominent eye. By having this also in the book, it created another

We did this to make Pablo to seem more like the sixth member. Our story is similar and different in a sense of Pablo and the sixth member being wanted or being unwanted. In the Fellowship, the sixth member is not wanted by the gang because they were known as a group of five and did not want a sixth member. However in our adapted version, we made Pablo a victim of jealousy from other monsters. The other monsters want to be like him whereas in the Fellowship not one member wants him. In our story we incorporated jealously but also included the exclusion theme from the Fellowship, we wrote a mixture of