Summary Of The Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka

After reading the story “The metamorphosis” one of the central ideas is a man whose name in Gregor, turned into a vermin during the night. After the transformation, he lies awake thinking about his hatred for his job. Peter Kuper is able to demonstrate Gregor’s struggle to get out of bed, and his hatred for his job more effectively than Franz Kafka’s written story.
With Kuper’s graphic novel the author is able to express and emphasize on the struggle Gregor had to go through just to get out of bed. In the graphic organizer the reader can see several frames of Gregor twisting and turning to attempt to roll himself out of bed. The reader can also see how the graphic organizer conveys anger, frustration and pain of getting out of bed through Gregor’s facial expressions (109.) Unlike Kuper, Kafka is only able to express that
In Kuper’s graphic novella the author is able to express and convey how much Gregor hates his job by demonstrating through several frames of pure anger and frustration on Gregor’s face as he starts to think about his job. Gregor’s boss is demonstrated as a colossal individual standing over Gregor, and continuously shouting at him. When the boss was yelling at Gregor, his face conveyed sheer horror. The next scene in the graphic novella shows how Gregor would have already stormed into the boss's office, and do what the boss did to his employees. On the other hand, Kajka is only able to demonstrate Gregor’s anger through word choice. When Gregor starts to think about his job he gets frustrated and says “it can all go to hell.” (94.) Gregor finally realizes “what a strenuous career” he has chosen while “other traveling salesman live a life of luxury” (94.) Although Kafka’s story expresses Gregor’s hatred for his job, Kuper does the superior job. The reader can get a clearer idea of the extent of Gregor’s hatred is for his