My first feeling as Gregor’s metamorphosis unfolded was one of peculiarity towards the reactions from his family. In my mind, I envisioned the door slowly creaking open to the horrible, human-sized, hard-shelled Gregor and watching the lens of the narrator … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2013
Dear Diary, I read Metamorphosis in high school, so when it was assigned in class I already knew the main character turns into a bug. However, Gregor’s reaction to his transformation still surprised me. Gregor woke up in the morning, … Continue reading
Reading Metamorphosis, I was captivated by Gregor’s situation with his family and his job. It was beautifully depressing, and while I was reading, I felt a weight on my chest because I sympathized with Gregor so much that I felt … Continue reading
At first I thought Gregor’s change was mental rather than physical. I thought the “bug” was just a metaphor for how small he felt in the world, and the fact that he could not get out of bed as a … Continue reading
I heard many of my classmates complaining that they found Gregor’s sudden transformation into a cockroach unrealistic. Personally, I couldn’t disagree more. Lets be honest, there was no way for Kafka to realistically transform Gregor into a cockroach without dipping … Continue reading
Metamorphosis, hm, where to start. It is a strange book that is for certain. The beginning is probably the strangest part for me. I mean yeah, he is a cockroach the whole book which is alone very weird but the … Continue reading
Although Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka was not one of my favorite short stories, it certainly provoked a series of reactions and images in my head. Not knowing anything about the story before I opened the book, the first lines of Gregor Samsa … Continue reading
Dear Diary, To be honest, when I first heard that we were going to read this book, I was a bit hesitant, and yes, kind of scared, because like most teenage girls, I am deeply terrified of bugs. … Continue reading
Let me get something off my chest first. When Professor Wollman introduced Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” by saying how it is about about a man who turns into a roach, I was turned off a bit because I absolutely do not like bugs. … Continue reading
The Metamorphasis. When I first read the title of Franz Kafka’s book, I couldn’t help but think of butterflies. In my mind I had a huge picture of a small caterpillar. Through hard work and lots of leaf-eating, the small … Continue reading