Cockroach

“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness” (Alejandro Jodorowsky). People who have always lacked freedom fail to understand the importance of being able to grow and find individuality. Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis explores the role of the individual, and what it takes as well as what must be sacrificed in order to find contentment in a capitalistic society. Individuals find that society constantly imposes limitations upon them, most since birth. Humanity is not taught to rise above the…

see on or two creeping out of his wife’s sleeves, yet an other thing about her that makes his stomach churn. He still can’t figure out why his daughter would be around her and even play with her, without being drunk. Theo gives up on killing the cockroach, he gets up and turns around. That when he sees it, the bane of his existence, his wife Charlotte. Ever since the accident her…

Walter Younger, to his 20-year old daughter, Beneatha Younger. Walter is uneducated and has a thoroughly unsatisfying and poorly paid job as a chauffeur. His daughter Beneatha, is a college student who dreams of becoming a doctor, while sharing a cockroach- infested, decrepit and overcrowded rental apartment with her extended family. Walter’s disparaging comment to Beneatha, reflects his beliefs in conventional and traditional gender roles for men and women. By contrasting the beliefs of the…

While vermin is an apt description for a cockroach, an animal unworthy of sacrifice is quite an extreme way of describing Gregor. This absurd word choice is deliberate on Kafka’s part and comparable to the the equally absurd treatment of the Jews in Europe during Kafka’s lifetime. Despite have the…

If you’re squeamish, turn back. This isn’t a good place for you to be. If not, well, it’s possible that I’m going to change that. So listen up and listen quickly. It’ll be over before you know it. I used to love popping zits. There were days where all I could do was stand in front of my bathroom mirror and pop what pimples dared to show on my skin. The problem was, as far as my face goes, I have almost none there. But when it came to my body, there were quite a few problem areas I could attack.…

Introduction Gregor had one of the worst lives anyone can ever have. His parents hoarded his money, they made him work for them and made it so they relied on him. “Behind his door Gregor nodded emphatically, delighted at this unexpected foresight and thrift. Of course he actuallly could have paid off more of his father’s debt to the boss with this extra money.” The readers should care about this because he’s being used. Gregor has been used, abused and thrown away like a napkin. First point In…

Who in this world knows who would be interviewed?!? But even if they interview a king or even a cockroach, no one would know the very truth. People, the victim’s families and friends, moan for their ones. Wouldn’t you think…maybe there were people that have argued together before one died? Didn’t get the chance to say sorry? All holding hands together…

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, is a controversial book that is still discussed today. There are many controversies debating whether or not the book relates to him in a personal way or not, and whether or not he was actually a bug. I believe that the novella relates to him personally because of the similarities between the book and himself. The Metamorphosis takes place in an apartment, in an unknown city, and unknown time. We can assume that this takes place in Prague during the 20th century…

It is important for you as a reader to develop a context for difficult will text before and during reading because it could benefit you further into the reading my understanding that the text and passage better. Context is a learning a before reading the text or book, for example, when I Read Of Mice and Men in my English 9 class we develop context before we read the book as a class. our teacher asked dates and which what happened during that time, of mice and men, take place during the Great…

"About a white cockroach. That's me. That's what they call all of us who were here before their own people in Africa sold them to the slave traders. And I've heard English women call us white niggers. So between you I often wonder who I am and where is my country and where do I belong and why was I ever born at all" Antionette moves constantly between identities and the novel's dominant pattern enlists Antionette into identifications with a range of black others, whether they be Tia,…