Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis

The book Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka was published in 1915 and is about a traveling salesman who is transformed into a creature. The reason one may consider choosing this book and attempting to convert it into a kids book is how mysterious and open ended some of the aspects of the novel is. The process of creating this book took a fair enough of time, planning , and a lot of trial and error in order to get it the way I felt was acceptable The hardest part of creating this kids book was condensing the plot into only a few pages all while keeping it short and simple enough for a child to comprehend.

As an individual I learned trying to condense a book into only a few pages is not an easy task. Searching through the book looking for parts that were important in retelling the plot while also trying to advance the development of Gregor and some what the family took some time. Not only did I have to refer back to the book I had to compare other resources looking for common details in the plot that must have been important. Through this process I personally feel that I have improved in gather and extracting important aspects of a research while also meeting the goal of creating a kids book that effectively tells the plot.
With this project the ideas of how I had it in my head was hard to transcribe onto paper. Instead of stressing over about the artwork i got one of my friends to illustrate for me. It took some time on certain illustrations to reach a consensus how I wanted it to look and how he believed it should look,but in the end we ended up reaching a consensus and were able to produce artwork that was able to show the plot. In the end I learned that conflicting ideas can be merged into a final product that looks better then what and individual first