The Book Report of 《The Metamorphosis》.doc

The Book Report of The Metamorphosis When a person or even the entire social groups got into the predicament of existence and thinking, then literature can always be the most sensitive tactile sensation to express the change of all feelings. Just like the turbulent times and the overthrowing of ideas almost have the power to create a totally new literary form. So as the appearing of Modernism. Kafka, as the originator of modern literature, the profound thinking and exploring in his works wonderfully explained the connotation of Modernism. And as one of his representative works, The Metamorphosis is also the immortal classic in the modern literature history. I’ve ever seen a picture of Kafka. He’s handsome, but there are some unspeakable feelings in his big eyes. Despair? Much more than this. It might be a kind of distorted hopelessness. He was a giant created by a lifelong loneliness. He stood in the height and overlooked the world where we cannot reach and where he saw the desperation of all human beings. This summer vocation I read Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. In the process of reading the book, I felt there was a strong sense of oppression in my heart just as a huge stone on my body. Constraint、depression and deformation tied me up and my whole body was paralyzed, as if the man who became the insect wasn’t Gregor but me, it was me restrained under the huge leather sofa and couldn’t move. The book was written in 1912. It is said that one morning as Gregor Samsa woke up he found himself transformed into a gigantic insect. He used to support his family with his slender earnings by working as a salesman, but now on the contrary, he had to sponge off his family. At first, his parents and sister were filled with compassion and caring for his poor encounter. His sister would bring him some food and clean up his room at the beginning. However, as time went on, his family started to disgust him, and even detest him in the end. They regarded him as a heavy burden both in p