The metamorphosis

As I began to read the book I see that Gregor turns into this big bug. And from this pint on his life does a complete turn around once he realizes that now he can’t get out of the bed. When I think about this one little sentence as the book opens, the question pops in my mind what would I do if I woke up one morning and I was bug and couldn’t get out the bed. I might have weird thoughts as to killing myself because I wouldn’t fit in the society.

Gregor is now a bug and now has to deal with the problem of knowing how his family would respond to him when they see he is a bug instead of a human. Gregor feels that now he wouldn’t fit in society or in the work place. He has to come up with ideas that will allow people to look at him as the hard working man he once was that was the supporter of the family.

Once the family notices that he is a bug their whole attitude changes and now they don’t want to be bothered with him at all. Which to me is wrong because when he was bringing home the family income everything was okay. So now this leaves him with the idea of was my family using me for money? The answer to that question should be yes. Because later on in the story he finds out that the family has enough money to live off of for a couple of years and really don’t need him anymore. Also that the father can actually go out and work to keep income coming inside the house. Where as they had Gregor working so he can help pay off the debt they had with his boss, because they told him they had no money.

This situation happens to a lot of people in the world today when the parents are old and the child still remains living at home with the parents. Then the child is the person who brings home the income and all of sudden the parents come down with an illness. And now they cant work and depending on the child and the when the child changes in some different type of way, they treat them like they are not apart of the family anymore.

Lastly the really bad part is that father just beats him and throws apples at him as if he is ashamed of his own son. That’s sad because why would you beat your child because they have been transformed into a bug. Despite this problem he is still his child no matter what happens.

This book really opened my eyes up to how some people look a different people because of the way that they has changed and cant do anything about it. I just wished he could’ve changed back into a human and told his parents off because of the way that they have been treating him since he became a bug.