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'Stressed Out' By Gregor Samsa
How scary was this story! It drives one crazy and makes one afraid from the future. Nobody knows what will face in the near future even, and how the community will deal with the new situation. The story was extremely dark though, and I know that it is imaginary only to show the bad transformation that one can face in their life. Kafka’s story of Gregor Samsa really made me think more about how the people around me will take any situation when I fall broken in anyway, and this is very crazy, whether it was the family, the friends, or the partner.
And what Kafka wanted to indicate in his story, is more than one thing, I also believe that the same situation of Gregor and how he felt, useless, a burden on the family and the society, is how an elderly person feel, especially because the story was written in a time when they did not have sustenance within the law of labor in many countries, and also the time when a lot of families who they belong to, forget the grace of the breadwinner, and every man who experienced this situation felt like an insect.
I can relate this story to the song (Stressed out) by Twenty-one Pilot, which talk about the society that stress out the person and push them always to make money, wake up you need to make money! And how money now value the person himself, …show more content…
How can those who live body of an insect to sustain the struggles of the daily life of the modern citizen: Catching the crowded train, standing the bad meals, and palatability of mutual human contacts, of which becomes not friendly at all, accepting the humanitarian waking up early and moving from the bed, Kafka says: “this getting out of bed early is totally stupid”. The daily life of the human body looks like a stupid exercise to belong to the humanity that you don’t love, everything that is daily is exchanging what cannot be kept: the debt of
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