After reading “A Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka, which talks about a hunger artist who is extremely popular for starving himself in a cage for forty days around cities in Europe. Out of nowhere, the hunger artist loses his popularity and his audience. The hunger artist than fires his manager and joins a large circus where he later dies in a cage of what seem to be starvation. When most people see a mental ill person they automatically assume the worst. Mental illness can range from a variety of disorders, some can have mild distress that impairs a person daily life. I personally feel like mentally ill people is the most misunderstood and stigmatized out of all due to the fact that people always label them as “different”, while still being human
