Metamorphosis Book Report

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Metamorphosis
Sarah was astonished at the discovery that Gregor has become a bug, this left her dumbfounded at this new discovery of gregor. Sarah didn’t know how to react to this, she was stuck between telling her parents and not. So Sarah did the only thing she could do and that was to feed him, Sarah placed out a dish sweetened milk with small pieces of bread inside of it knowing that it was Gregor Favorite. However Gregor resisted this and wouldn't even take a sip of it and this saddened Sarah and also made her very concerned. Finally this made Sarah leave to go to the living room and sit with her father and read the evening paper. As they were reading Sarah could see Gregor sitting his head out from the hole in the wall. When Gregor saw

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