kafka quiz

1. Connect the Ordinary World and the Call to Adventure to your reading of Book 1 of _The Metamorphosis_ Explain the connection.
The ordinary world is described by talking about how he must work every morning traveling on trains selling in this case fabric. he gets up at 4 everymorning and gets on a train and goes to work. he is in debt to his boss and must work for him until he pays that off. he lives with hismother father and his sister Grete who is only about 16. his call to adventure is waking up as a monstrous vermin. he is then forced to take the adventure of living as this creature which takes him to the special world. he can't try to go to work he learns by the reaction of his manager who runs out of the house, his mother who jumps up on the table, and his father who takes a cane and a newspaper and shoos him back into his bedroom. he must take this adventure of being this creature, normal ordinary life no longer exists.

2. Are there any social issues being critiqued in the story? How does "The Red Scare" relate to Kafka's work?
social issues are certain in this story. first one i would notice would be the taking care of parents and children giving their hard earned money to the parents. its an old tradition but some families still work this way. another social issue is change. the appearance of Gregor has changed a long with his voice which has caused him no longer okay in society, he can't even leave him room. this brings about the relation to the "Red Scare." America believed in McCarthy until they saw the images of the people that he was blaming, and they began to shun him out of society out of their beliefs in agreeing with him. Gregor once able to be seen not only once but twice freak people out into being scared of him.


3. What does Gregor turn into in the story?
Kafka never really says what he turns into. The most he describes is lots of legs, brown, no teeth, hard round back, labeled a "monstrous Vermin." i think that he turns into a stranger not only to his whole family but a stranger to himself.