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Sunday, November 16, 2008

Sympathy for a monstrous vermin?

We should be sympathetic towards Gregor. If I worked hard, day in and day out and one day I turn into a bug and my family does nothing but lock me up in a room I would be upset! Poor Gregor is taking over his father’s debts, and yet all the family does is throw apples at him and starve him to death. It is understandable that the family reacts this way, yet we must think of it through Gregor’s eyes. One morning you wake up as a bug and you’re late for work! Thoughts start running through your head. “Oh no I’m going to be fired...I missed my train!!...Oh my goodness I’m a bug!” Your superior comes to the door and your own family doesn’t know what’s happened to you, then you come out as a giant roach. It’s a horrible feeling to be stared at. Gregor is unable to move around normally, he now has to adapt to this new life of 6 to 8 legs, blurry vision, and sticky guck coming out of his leg. His new life seems so cruel. Gregor was nothing but a good son, he worked off the debt of his father, rarely leaving the house unless he had to, and always on time to work, doing everything asked of him. It is unfair that he should be turned into a bug so that his family can change. Why should bad things happen to good people? I don’t think we were created on this earth to die for someone else’s change of lifestyle. We should be sympathetic towards Gregor

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