Gregor Samsa

Similar to Gregor Samsa in Franz Kafka’s novel The Metamorphosis, Furo Wariboko awoke one morning to find that in his sleep he had completely transformed into an oyibo (a white person). In an interview, Igoni explains that "The Metamorphosis is about a young man in Prague who wakes up one morning to discover that he is a giant bug, and then he spends his time trying to be loved by his parents, to win his parents love, and trying to fulfill his responsibilities.” Furo Wariboko went from being a…

After months of being an insect and being increasingly mistreated by his family, Gregor Samsa finally collapses from fatigue and starvation in his room, promptly dying. In the very early morning, the maid of the house comes across Gregor’s carcass, but rather than be mortified and sob, she uses an idiom and yells the fact that Gregor has passed away. The maid’s use of the idiom “dead as a doornail” in such a morbid context is a form of black humour that attempts to make light of a situation that…

person that could be said to be close to him was his sister, who would turn on him later in the story. Upon metamorphosis, Gregor could no longer provide for himself, which wasn't a problem, or his family who, he was most worried about. From the point of this major physical change from a human to a beetle, his family starts to turn on him. This is due to the fact that Gregor had no longer acquired the ability to work to work and provide for his family. After everything he had done for his family…

Throughout both Down These Mean Streets by, Piri Thomas and Looking for Work by, Gary Soto both have there similarities and differences when it comes to each one of there lives. Piri Thomas grew up in a bad neighborhood that he had to constantly watch his back just to survive. Gary Soto's issue in the story is that he wants his family to dress nice to dinner and his family does not care. Both the article and the story have personal narrators for their point of view as well as some external…

Beep beep beep sounds countless hospital machines chirping like birds in the morning sun. He opens his eyes to wires coming from his body like a robot. Brought to tears by pai in his abdomen finds out he has 3 broken ribs. Brought to tears by slapping a fly off his face finds out he has a broken cheekbone. Brought to tears wiping his runny nose found out he broke it. His time to go home has come he is leaving the hospital with countless injuries and a hefty receipt from his stay lying motionless…

“Popular Mechanics” is a short story written by Raymond Carver. This story is about a couple getting broken apart. The man gets home and starts packing his things while the woman is yelling at him to leave and crying. As the man is packing up, the woman picks up the picture of the baby and he demands to have it. She won’t let him have it and then he demands that he wants the baby. She gets really upset and gets the baby. He gets angrier and then tries to take the baby out of her arms. They…

Introduction - This essay discuss The Running Man and The Castle in terms of ‘people who stand up for their values and beliefs’. The Running Man by Stephen King is a book that depicts Ben, the main character as the victim of a large, ruthless company. Forced to survive against the tv shows experienced soldiers and survive to earn money for his dying daughter's treatment. The castle (directed by Rob Stitch and released in 1997) has a similar story, the Kerrigan family is left in a position where…

Of Mice and Men begins with two migrant workers named Lennie Small and George Milton, who are trying to survive by looking for a job at the ranch. Lennie faces social justice since he commits errors due to his mental illness and does not receive consequences as other employees would. George learns to tolerate Lennie at every moment from acting like a child to becoming a criminal, and lastly, another employee named Candy faces equal despair from others along with his pet dog. Along their journey…

Beneath the austerity of McCarthy’s language endures a gradual waning of convention from humanity. In addition to establishing association with the audience, the namelessness of the characters in McCarthy’s novel depicts the stripping of humans from their sophistication in the natural world, thereby equating the once exceptional species with the innominate insignificance of a lowly amoeba. On several occasions, McCarthy limns the man and the boy in a rather subhuman light with elucidations such…

Huck’s Familial Transformation Huckleberry Finn leaves behind one family, an abusive, drunken one, to find family after family as he sails down the Mississippi River, from the quarreling Grangerfords, to the brokenhearted sisters to the welcoming Aunt Sally. He also comes up with fake families, one after another, whenever he needed a good tall tale to tell. It's almost as though he's trying to make up for how awful his actual family situation is. The different families that Huck experiences…