Monday, March 4, 2013
Writing in class assignment
I think the ending if metaphorphasis was interesting, but disappointing at the same time. The whole novel I was kind of hoping fr a happy and hopeful ending that would display Gregor undergo another miraculous transformation back into a human. Unfortunately, that was not the case at all. The end if the novel has Gregor dying, in the same bug form. Kafka does not go for a happy ending at all as Gregor ends his life as a bug. I think the ending is also very ironic in the sense that the Samsa family's life seems to get better with Gregor gone. While he was alive, Gregor gave everything for his family and always put them before anything else. He worked a job that he absolutely hated in order to support the family as well as pay off his parents' debt, and did everything he could to support them. All that hard work and dedication to his family never was appreciated by his parents, who selfishly did not understand that without Gregor, their lives would be much worse. After Gregor's death, his parents carry on with their lives and have the maid dispose of the body. Gregor's body is thrown out like he meant nothing to the family, even though he did everything for each member to help however he could. It seems almost as if Gregor's parents believe their lives have gotten much better following the death of their son as a bug, even though they always needed Gregor but just never appreciated what he meant to everyone in the family. They didn't undertsnd that even when he was a bug, Gregor still wanted to find any way to help his family, even though his parents couldn't stand it. I think the last word in the novel "body" is interesting because it connects to the first line on the first page. The novel opens up with a statement explaining that Gregor has transformed into a bug, and ends witha statement claiming his sister has stood up to stretch out her body. Unlike Gregor after he turned not s bug, his sister is able to stretch out her legs and body since she is a human physically. Although Gregor transformed into a bug and was not able to move his body like a human physically, he still remained a human on the inside but couldn't show it enough.
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