Abraham Han's 20th Century Class Blog

I have a story to share my friends, and a message I hope you all shall heed. Alas, little Abraham had a fantastic idea for the blog post due today, a beautiful argument presented on solid foundations of evidence to support his reasoning. So he bid his time, writing parts, paragraphs throughout the week, and Bravo! wrote a 7 paragraph beauty, all written out with intro and outro. And here the horror begins: As he presses the orange "PUBLISH" button, the screen shouts "Oh no! It looks like ...." and he laughs, and presses to reload. Surely, all those times he's pressed the save button, it's fine. But when the page reloads, an empty text box stares back at him. He waits for another 30 seconds, and slowly begins to think that perhaps, it isn't just a web lag thing, and that the text won't just magically pop out, because the info in the box is still loading right now, maybe the video drivers are messing up, or haha so much for spending 800 bucks ...

There are many dreamlike qualities in the beginning of The Metamorphosis. The way that Gregor thinks when he wakes up 'Oh I'm a bug. But it would suck if the Chief Clerk dropped by and accuses me of being lazy' and how that later actually happen is a very dreamlike quality. Like, if anyone has ever had a kind of bad dream, and you think 'You know, it'd be much worse if _______ were to happen', and then a kind of gravity-like force pulls you into that situation, that is exactly how the novella begins. However, Kafka clearly distinguishes that "It was no dream." (1). Why would he do that? Taking a step back, and looking at the story itself, as a short story/novella about a human that's turned into a bug, it really feels as though it's inviting the reader to argue with the book, instead of actually trying to read it. To combat this, Kafka uses the absurdity of the situation itself, in that there is an actual human that has turned into an actua...