Gregor Samsa

3. In the Lightning Thief, the introductory chapters establish that the main character, Percy, lives in modern-day Manhattan, New York. They also show Percy’s personality and his relationship with other characters. Percy’s pre-algebra teacher turning into a monster and trying to kill him is the inciting incident. The action continues to rise as Percy's mom drives him and his satyr friend to a special camp while the Minotaur chases them. The Minotaur seemingly kills Percy’s mom, but it is…

One such piece of literature that accomplishes this is Franz Kafka’s 1915 novella The Metamorphosis. In Kafka’s novella, Gregor Samsa is transformed into a gigantic creature that alienates him from the rest of the world. Kafka is able to take the confusion and frustration surrounding him about the current situation of the world, and channels it into Gregor’s character. He is…

Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis leaves every reader with various ambiguous meanings. However, Kafka meant to do this under the premise that it would assist the reader to think of his or her own life with a deeper meaning. The deplorable tale of Gregor Samsa lets us take a closer look into our lives to think more deeply…

In my IB English class, we are studying Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, in which the main character, Gregor Samsa awakes one morning “from agitated dreams” and finds “himself, in his bed, transformed into a monstrous vermin” (Kafka 1). In the first pages, as Gregor contemplates his reformation personally before revealing himself to his family and boss outside his door, the fact that he has transformed into a bug remains known solely to himself, therefore existing as personal knowledge. In this…

In her explanation of a hook, Weiland says, “…stripped down to its lowest common denominator, [a hook is] nothing more or less than a question.” She is asserting that the best of hooks with pique the interest of the audience, and cause them to generate their own questions, and will be propelled into the story in order to answer them. Hooks can provide information, even partial information that doesn’t fully gratify the readers’ inquisitive nature; but rather exacerbates it. Weiland compares a…