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The details increased the impact of the details about Kafka's life. His life sounds terrible when you read about it, but the visuals makes you actually imagine the hostile environment that he grew up in as a child. This visual allows you to understand why the father in Metamorphosis was so terrible. That it was because the fictional father was modeled after his actual father. I looked at the illustrations first because that's what caught my eye first. Written text is small and common, but large illustrations are used less, so when they are used I tend to look at them first.
The quotations are helpful because they provide about of context for the illustration. Otherwise, the reader wouldn't know what was going on in the picture. It is easy

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