Magical Realism In The Metamorphosis

In the life we live in and the stories that have been written about life, the cruel truth has been hidden by the humorous words authors of the genre, magical realism. The stories can be perceived in whatever way but they don't just put in the humor and irony for no reason, they are wanting us to take a personal lesson from the stories and learn from them. The lessons we learn can be about ourselves in the way we treat others and how we treat ourselves. Also, life situations that happen everyday and how we can solve them. Magical realism may be just goofy stories to the common eye but some see a lesson worth learning.

Magical realism is a genre that makes us take a double take at what we’re reading and think why would they put this into a story when it makes no sense. The goal of the
In the story the main character that goes by the name of Gregor suddenly wakes up one morning to find that he has transformed into a bug, but the fact that he is indeed a bug he feels he must go to work for his family. His whole family is very lazy and he has to get the money for them, so after Gregor changes to a bug they are all rather shocked in the beginning but slowly begin not to care about him and basically shun him from the family by locking him in his room. With this said you can see a change of the family towards Gregor just because of this change and he is no longer useful to them, this shows the families true colors by the end of the story. At one point in the story his father hurts Gregor by throwing an apple at him and it gets lodged in his back but in the story it says “No one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor’s flesh so it remained there as a visible reminder of his injury”, his family are so disgusted with what he has become they won’t help him even in a moment of pain just because of the way he