jennifer carpio
The metamorphosis
The novel the metamorphosis is about a vermin named Gregor and his life. His life is a journey that has several steps from innocence to resolution. Gregor was a regular human who woke up one day as a vermin and couldn’t do anything he usually did as a human.
The first step or stage of Gregor’s life or journey would be his innocence. Maybe gregor wasn’t exactly happy but he was human and worked hard everyday to pay back a debt that he owed to his family. He didn’t necessarily like his job which was always on the road and meeting different people everyday where he wouldn’t be able to maintain any relationships. But was dedicated, always woke up early enough to catch his ride to work. He had set a goal to finish about 5 to 6 years of hard work and finish paying off the debt.
The second step would be initiation where he realized that he was going to stay a vermin. His human body was corrupted and he had many tiny legs and he just couldn’t function right. Then when his family start to realize that his voice sounds like an animal and that he had no reason not to go to work, gregor felt useless and ashamed.
The third step was chaos. Gregor just wanted to go back to being human. He just felt that even how hard and how long working was so miserable for him that he would want that back. Gregor was offered food but he wouldn’t eat it not even his favorite foods. His family tried to take care of him by cleaning up after him but they seemed also as if they cared about gregors emotions or thoughts.
The last step is resolution and gregor was just so depressed and knew that he was unwilling to work or do anything useful and he died. These four steps of gregors journey is what he went throught but human or not in the end gregor was treated the same and his family felt about him wither way.
The metamorphosis
The novel the metamorphosis is about a vermin named Gregor and his life. His life is a journey that has several steps from innocence to resolution. Gregor was a regular human who woke up one day as a vermin and couldn’t do anything he usually did as a human.
The first step or stage of Gregor’s life or journey would be his innocence. Maybe gregor wasn’t exactly happy but he was human and worked hard everyday to pay back a debt that he owed to his family. He didn’t necessarily like his job which was always on the road and meeting different people everyday where he wouldn’t be able to maintain any relationships. But was dedicated, always woke up early enough to catch his ride to work. He had set a goal to finish about 5 to 6 years of hard work and finish paying off the debt.
The second step would be initiation where he realized that he was going to stay a vermin. His human body was corrupted and he had many tiny legs and he just couldn’t function right. Then when his family start to realize that his voice sounds like an animal and that he had no reason not to go to work, gregor felt useless and ashamed.
The third step was chaos. Gregor just wanted to go back to being human. He just felt that even how hard and how long working was so miserable for him that he would want that back. Gregor was offered food but he wouldn’t eat it not even his favorite foods. His family tried to take care of him by cleaning up after him but they seemed also as if they cared about gregors emotions or thoughts.
The last step is resolution and gregor was just so depressed and knew that he was unwilling to work or do anything useful and he died. These four steps of gregors journey is what he went throught but human or not in the end gregor was treated the same and his family felt about him wither way.
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