The Metamorphosis

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka was a great novella. I believed that it had so much thought and emotion in it that although we found it to be out of the ordinary it made it that much more interesting. Kafka intended his novellas to be different. He wanted to go beyond what was expected and allowed during that time and allow all, the freedom to express themselves. In The Metamorphosis the main character was Gregor. Gregor was a grown man that all his life was expected to support his family with no ones help. Gregor woke up one morning and had become a human size bug. To any other person this might have been a shock but not to Gregor he seemed to be perfectly fine with it. Gregor had become the burden of his family rather then the provider he always was. He was something that needed to be taken care of and be given food. His family had no more use for him and no longer cared for him therefore they didn't care or mind when Gregor died. Gregor's family showed no emotion and simply got rid of him and they carried on with their lives. I believe I enjoyed this so much because it left you in suspense. You never know if Gregor was really physically a bug or he just believed he was. Gregor was always living the life his family needed him to live. This novella shows that Gregor became a bug because he wanted to be different he wanted to be able to do something else besides work all the time and provide while his father stole. He lived his life everyday the same way and needed change. Kafka often expressed his own life in his novellas. He too wanted to let things out and be different. I am very interested in Kafka's ways and would read many more of his novellas.

What's going to happen next?

This weekend I went and saw the movie Friday 13th. It was a horror movie about a guy who as a child drowned and for payback of no one saving him he kills all people who return back to the camp. I enjoyed this movie a lot for the simple fact that the thrill of horror movies attract me. One thing that I have grown to realize about scary movies is that they are predictable. How could this happen? Most movies have different stories behind them, different characters and different plots, yet you can guess everything that happens next. You can sit through the movie saying who is going die or when something is going to pop out at you. Why do we all still have an interest?