Metamorphosis (Pocket Classics) Paperback – 10 January 2017

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If you are wondering what the term Metamorphosis mens, as I wondered when I picked up the book, it is a biological sequence of an animal developing its body after birth. Like a butterfly, how it gets transferred from a pupa to a whole butterfly.✨The story is about this person called Gregor Samsa. He is a travelling salesman, who lives with his parents and a teen sister. One day he wakes up and finds himself turned out be a horrible vermin. He finds even difficult to move this body from the bed. Suspicious parents and a person from his work, urge him to get out of the room. When Gregor manages to step out in his new form, everyone gets terrified and push him back to the room.✨From that day, Gregor stays in his room helpless. In the beginning his sister helps him by providing him food. But when the days go, everyone gets busy in their own daily life. His family takes away all his belongings and leave him with an empty room.✨This is a very simple story, yet it conveys so many deep meanings. We see how his boss treats even after working so hard for many years! His parents consider him only when he earns money for the family. Gregor lives a very sad life even before him becoming a vermin.✨The story also leaves with no explanation of why he turned into a vermin. This makes our imagination go wild in metaphorically comparing things.✨Overall, it's a different kind of reading, which definitely needs to be read to enjoy it's deep meaning.

What would you do if you face an injury that makes you bedridden, and you realise from now on you are nothing but a mere ‘vegetable’ for yourself and your family? Now, a more interesting but probably the same question : What will you do if you wake up someday and realise that you have turned into a bug? Strange right?Well in this literal genius peace by Franz Kafka, the protagonist Gregor Samsa one day woke up and find himself transformed into a bug. Although I found this book dragged at some points and boring at some, there’s a reason why I still call this a genius work. It’s what the story represents metaphorically. People turning into insects, umm.. doesn’t happen everyday! But the sole breadwinner of a family turning into an invalid all of a sudden, complete useless and transforming from the asset to a deep liability, yeah that’s what we might relate to. And that’s what Gregor’s ‘Metamorphosis’ represents. Another great aspect of this book which intrigued me was how the mental transformation of Gregor as well as his family is shown as a result of this big change in his life. Gregor, at first lack any sympathy for himself, he is in mere shock to his transformation and is just trying to adapt to the same. But gradually as the realisation dawns on him, he becomes self sympathetic and also expects care and sympathy from his family. On the contrary, his family is sympathetic to him at first, but as time passes, they grow tired of him. They see him as an inconvenience, as a burden, to the point that they decide it would be better to get rid of him. This is how the mentality of people change if they are burdened by having to taking care of someone who will never be able to speak to them again, who just exists. How brilliantly Kafka has represented feelings like sympathy, anger, sadness, disgust and hopelessness by the ‘insect’ as well as the ‘caretakers’ of the insect. How people are shocked by such things and are not ready to accept it, but when they do face the hard reality as it is what it is, they grieve and then try to adapt to this change and try to do whatever they can. Certain times they might have lingering hope that it might be alright someday, that a miracle will happen and things will go back to normal. But when they see no improvement, the judgement time comes then. Will they continue holding onto what they held dear but causes them tremendous pain now, or will they just let go? Well spoiler alert for the book, the family decides that they had have enough, and they grow tired of the burden who was their loving son and brother a while back. Even Gregor has had enough of his life and loses all will to live, eat or do anything. Another metaphor stated on point.In conclusion, this book is a typical Kafka and if you like dark metaphorical reads, this is for you. Go for it. Although its a book of mere 107 pages, at times it feels dragged and at many times it doesn’t makes any sense. But if you try to see the irony and metaphors and like to read between the lines, you are going to love it and will really appreciate it more.

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I bought it because of its cover but in real life it doesn't look that good the picture is good but the cover page and print quality is bad. So, I return it and bought penguin publisher one

The media could not be loaded. Page quality, packaging and delivery and overall book is appreciable.I have read yet the book.Book purchase experience is 10 out of 10 here.I ordered hardbound and get my books with white thick page quality and really giving me the good vibe when I am holding the book in my hand.

Product is good. But not the packaging.It is necessary to package the product using cardboard, bubble wrap, or tissue paper.