metamorphosis

we started reading it in ap after we finished the stranger. and i dove into it a little bit late since i was making up a ap test i missed on the stranger (i found out i got a 93 on it and a 6/7 so i'm pretty happy about that). anyway when i got back into the classroom the first thing i hear is something along the lines of "wait, he's a bug?" well this ought to be good. a story about a bug in a classroom that pretty much consists of girls. it makes me wonder if the only guy in the class enjoyed it.

anyway when i started to read it i thought it was creepy. the main character gregor waking up to find that he's a bug, and a human sized one at that. we never find out why he just suddenly turned into a bug, just that he did and that he's more worried about going to work than the fact that he's a bug. it's strange to see that the character finds it more of an inconvenience than an actual problem. anyway his family finds out and reacts totally different than what you think. his mother goes to say something and then faints. and then his father begins to cry.

in the second half of the book you learn that gregor has been locked into his room and that the family has decided to keep him in there....my thoughts exactly. yet overtime i started to feel bad for the bug seeing how when he was human all he did was try and help his family, providing for them. but now they just see him as a, well, pest. so you can't help but feel bad for him at the end when * spoiler alert* he dies and the family hardly mourns. i guess you can see the opposite side of this from the families point of view. i know i would freak out if one day my sister turned into this huge bug and would probably handled things worse than what gregors family did.

the whole big deal with the metamorphosis in this book doesn't really focus on gregor's physical metamorphosis, but the metamorphosis of his family. they have to go through life and learn to work for themselves now that they're provider can't. the reader also sees how they have changed themselves and their views on gregor. seeing him as more of a bug than their son or brother. yes the book is mostly a focus on gregor, but it's really about how his family deals with it and seeing it through his eyes.

it's a short read though it comes in three parts. it might get a bit confusing but it all depends on which translation you read. overall the book was good but nothing special in my opinion. it's just something to refer back to when writing a paper or an essay.