Gregor Character Changes

Everybody reacts in different ways. Three stories with great examples of how people react are “The Metamorphosis”,“Simplexity”, and “Life After People”. They show the way that some people’s minds work. What happens when complete pandemonium breaks loose? What happens if people disappeared? What if you felt a bit different and you were moments away from losing your job and possibly dooming your family? These are all questions that you could ask yourself, but the main question is what would you do? Gregor is a traveling salesman. He is a very good worker. One problem with his job is that he does not like it. It has forced him to almost isolate himself from everything. His mother said, “It nearly makes me cross the way he never goes out in …show more content…
He had an armored back, a brown belly which was slightly domed with arches, and many small legs. This is change is very obvious because his entire physical appearance is different. Gregor is in denial at first. He thought that he could fall asleep and then wake up with everything back to the way it was as if it were just a dream. He is worried more about his job than being transformed into this bug. He has his job for his parents. He knows that if he loses this job then his parents will be in trouble. Doing this shows that Gregor is a caring person that does not always think about himself. He overcomes the physical change when he tried to get out of bed. He had to try multiple ways of getting out of the bed and he never quit until he was out. When Gregor …show more content…
The story talks about what some people could have done differently to speed up the evacuation. Trying to move 20,000 people to the same area in a short amount of time can be a challenge. The slightest thing could cause a ripple effect which can cost lives. Some of these are obstacles that can block the path of people, but emotion is also a big factor in this. Some people can be shut down by panic which causes them to slow down which then slows others down with them. This is obviously not very good, so the best way to overcome this is to stay calm. Some people do not panic because they know what has to be done in order to survive. I think that it depends on the personalities of the people. Some are brave and some like to follow the brave ones. The author talked about how if there was a better evacuation system such as the people at the bottom getting to exit first lives would have been saved. This would have worked because if there already was a stream of people going down the stairs and then another floor full of people decided to go into that stream everyone would have to stop. Those are the changes that needed to happen if we wanted more people to survive, but we wouldn’t have to worry about any of that if we all