quiz

1.     The ordinary world of Gregor Samsa get’s completely turned upside down when he wakes up one morning and finds out he has transformed into a giant insect. His ordinary day to day routine was centered around work because he was a treveling salemen who was very dedicated to his job. He lives with his mom dad and sister and his money supports them. When he finds himself changed into a bug this ordinary routine of going to work to get his family out of debt is no longer possible. His call to adventure is when his parents, sister and chief clerk all try and get him to out of bed and to open his door.  It’s not that he refuses this call, but rather that his current situation of being transformed into a bug holds him back. He can’t figure out how to manuver his new body.  When he finally does leave his room he finds that his parents and boss are frightened of him and his dad shoes him away.  This special world he has enetered into is in the same setting as his ordinary world it just involves learning how to deal with his current situation of being transformed into a bug.

2.     The social issue being critiqued in this work is the work ethic of society, Gregor wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a bug. Normally you would expect him to be hysterical over the fact that he is a giant bug, but he is more concerned with the fact that he is going to miss the train and can’t go on his business trip. The fact that he is going to have to miss a day of work is more distressing to him then his own situation. I think this critiques how our society can get so wrapped up in work that we become workaholics, even incapable of focusing on anything else. The red scare is related to the metamorphosis because the red scare was all about how Americans were afraid of communists. There were many accusations made against fellow Americans calling them communists. For the first time Americans were suspicious and afraid or their own people, their own kind. This is related to how Gregor’s mother and father were afraid of him, even though he was once just like them. They knew it was still him inside but because his appearance was different they shunned him. In the red scare many people were accused of being communists falsely because they appeared to be.

3.     A bug