Metamorphosis

This is a story about a young man named Gregor Samsa who is a clerk at a local firm.
He is the typical work-a-holic living with his parents, trying to work off the family debt.
However, he wakes up one day to find that he is a human-sized beetle. At first he
struggles to get out of bed and can hardly maneuver his body, as he's not used to
moving with so many legs. When his parents see him as a beetle for the first time, they
react pretty strongly, but his sister, Grete, is not so apprehensive. In the coming months,
she cleans his room and feeds him. Grete decides to move the furniture out of Gregor's
room so that he can climb around the walls. In doing so, the mother catches another
glimpse of Gregor and faints. As time passes, Gregor realizes that without him working,
the family is in deep financial trouble. The family brings in three renters into the
apartment to bring in some extra money, but when Gregor is seen by the renters, they
decide to not pay their rent and leave. It is then decided by the family that Gregor must
leave. Gregor, upon hearing this, goes back to his room and dies. The family finds him
dead and their life seems to turn around. They all get jobs and find a new place to live.
And in the end, Gregor's parents recognize Grete, Gregor's sister, as a beautiful young
woman. Initially, this is a story about the metamorphosis of Gregor - a transformation
from a human to a beetle. However, what we really see is a metamorphosis of the
family unit. In the beginning, we see a family who is strained under debt and apathetic
towards this problem. And at the end, each member of the family begins to take
initiatives to work and to change. This story is also about perspective, as we are mainly
placed into the mind of Gregor. Although he is a beetle from the beginning of the story,
the part of him that is still human characterizes and humanizes how we too might react
in a similar situation. Throughout the story, Gregor hovers between insect and human.
We see this in moments when he is considerate of his sister seeing him, covering
himself with a bed sheet so as to not scare her with his appearance. And although
people don't wake up as insects in real life, individuals do undergo forms of change. The
beetle exterior can be a metaphor for depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, or
even going away for college. One day, the world recognizes that you've changed. And
you may not be a giant insect, but the world must now respond to the metamorphosized
you.

Internal Matters in Metamorphosis:

Metamorphosis is a very unique novel and is written by Franz Kafka. It is about Gregor
Samsa’s transformation into an insect. Gregor has no idea why this has happened to
him. He discovers his transformation after waking up late for work one day. He finds his
back is now armored and his belly is brown, both characteristics of an insect. Gregor is
a traveling salesman and thinks that this can’t be real. At first, he figures he's simply
overworked. Unfortunately, it’s not a dream. He figures he has even bigger problems as
he’s late for his train ride! He was supposed to take the 5 o’clock train, but it’s already
6:30 and the last train leaves at 7. At that point, he’ll be late and his boss will come
pounding on his door with a doctor. His mother comes to the door and Gregor realizes
his voice has changed, but is determined to get up and get ready. Gregor has to do this
because his coworkers will show up at his house soon asking why he didn’t make his
train. Sure enough, the maid lets in the chief clerk and he, along with Gregor’s parents
come knocking at his door. The chief clerk is annoying. All he thinks about is ways that
Gregor is trying to scam him or get out of work. Yet in reality, Gregor works tirelessly at
his job. Gregor responds to the clerk and says that he’ll get ready now and make the 8
o’clock train. Meanwhile, Gregor’s parents are acting completely hysterical. The mother
is calling for a doctor, and the father is calling for a locksmith to break open the door.
Gregor finally unlocks the door and shocks everyone. From Gregor’s apology, we learn
that his parents are in serious debt to his employers. He works to support his entire
family. The chief clerk is so scared he leaves immediately. Gregor tries to stop him, and
falls on his stomach which is actually perfect and he’s able to move a little better.
Gregor’s father becomes aggressive towards Gregor. The father grabs the chief clerk's
stick and a newspaper and beats Gregor back into his room. In the process, he gashes
Gregor's side by scraping the door. He wakes up many hours later and finds a dish of
milk and white bread. To his surprise, he finds the milk disgusting. After many hours, his
sister comes in and seeing the uneaten milk brings some other food. In particular, he
ate cheese, half rotten vegetables and bones covered in white sauce. He's fed twice a
day from this point on. Also, he discovered that his wounds have healed. 5 years ago
Gregor’s father’s business collapsed. When this happened, Gregor became determined
to provide for his family. He even wanted to send his sister to a musical college as she
loved to play the violin. Gregor’s father is in the main room and Gregor listens. His father
has saved a few years worth of money that they can use to support himself. Gregor
thinks out-loud that this money could have freed him from his job much sooner. But, he
figures that it's good that his father did save it and is happy to hear about it. A month
had now passed since Gregor’s transformation and he finds his room boring. To
entertain himself, he would crawl up on the ceiling and hang there. To help out, his sister
removed all the furniture from the room. But, his mother doesn’t want to remove the
furniture. She thinks by removing it they are removing a piece Gregor's ability to recover.
Even Gregor acknowledges this, and is a little shocked that he was trying creating a
warm, dark, cave for himself. After changing his mind about the furniture, Gregor tries to
save a piece of art by covering it. When his mother comes back into the room she faints
at the sight of him. Gregor wants to help so he goes into the main room where his
mother is at. At this point, Gregor’s father returns. He’s dressed in a work uniform, and
is violent towards Gregor. He immediately begins throwing apples at his son and one
lodges in his back. This causes excruciating pain and almost entirely paralyzes him.
Then, Gregor's father and sister throw him back into his room. With the apple still
lodged in his back, Gregor’s wounds fester for over a month. Meanwhile, his mother was
sewing for a fashion store and his sister got a sales job. To make more money, the
family sold their jewelry. They also wanted to downsize from this apartment but couldn’t
hope to move Gregor. Gregor’s sisters cleaning deteriorates. She would leave the room
in a filthy state. When his mother tried to clean it, the sister goes ballistic. . The family
eventually hires a new cleaning lady and she is also irritating. She randomly opened
Gregor’s door one day and noticed him. Then, every day after that she would disturb him
at least once. Later, the family got 3 tenants who lived in one room of the apartment.
They demanded extreme tidiness and so all the random junk of the apartment ended up
in Gregor’s room. After dinner one evening, Gregor’s sister is playing the violin. Gregor
enjoys the playing, and moves into the main room. The door to his room was
accidentally left open by the new cleaning lady. When the tenants saw Gregor, they
immediately gave notice that they were moving, and refused to pay for the time they had
already stayed. Then, Gregor’s sister stated that they had to get rid of Gregor. They all
agreed with the father when he pathetically whaled “if he could just understand us”. This
is a bit comedic since the father is the one who didn’t understand Gregor. Gregor
understood them perfectly. Gregor felt his pain subsiding and breathed his last breath.
When the cleaning lady came the next morning she found Gregor’s lifeless carcass and
informed the household. The three tenants came out of their room to see what the
commotion was. Angry, Mr. Samsa tells them to get out of his house and they leave.
Then, the family takes a tram ride and feel quite happy with themselves. Their jobs are
good, and they’re excited to find a new apartment.

The Metamorphosis a la Shmoop: A Bug’s Life Let’s talk about change for a minute.
Nice… but we meant this kind of change. Change may not be the easiest thing in the
world. . . . . .as this guy could tell you. . . . . .but sometimes. . . it’s a good thing.
Unfortunately, for poor Gregor. . . . . .it’s not one of those times. So, why did Kafka turn
our hero into a giant bug? Was Gregor’s transformation into a cockroach. . . . . .a stand-
in for Kafka’s own feelings of being alienated in life? Maybe… Kafka was a Jew… . . .and
Anti-Semites actually referred to Jews as Ungeziefer <un-getz-ee-fer>. . . . . .Kafka’s
original word defining Gregor’s new form. Just because English translations use “bug”
or “insect” . . . . . .doesn’t mean that Kafka wasn’t trying to make a point. Another
popular theory. . . . . .is that Gregor’s transformation into a disgusting bug. . . . . .was to
symbolize how workers in our capitalistic society were being dehumanized. To put it
another way, people were feeling small and unappreciated. . . . . .kind of like… you
guessed it. Since bugs don’t have thoughts or feelings. . . . . .they can easily be
squashed without guilt. Heck, even Gregor’s loving sister, his own flesh and blood,
wanted him gone. But here’s something else to chew on. Gregor didn’t seem all that
unhappy being a cockroach. Maybe Kafka meant his story to be about the refusal to
conform. Gregor hated his boring job. . . . . .and found a way to get out of doing it. Okay,
so he did die in the end. . . But the only reason he shipped off to cockroach
heaven. . . . . . was because somebody else had a problem with his new look. So, what
was Kafka trying to say? Was that giant insect supposed to awaken our feelings of
alienation. . . . . .make us think about the dehumanization of the species. . . . . .or just
point out the joys of doing our own thing?

Plot Summary
The Guide
The most popular novel of RK Narayan in 1956 in English and got talent in the real 19588 for
this novel RK Narayan summary Academy Award in 1963 was also awarded Padma Bhushan in
1964 and University of Leeds conferred on him the honorary telit in 1967 that I decide who plays
a central role in this life some time as a vendor some time as a guide some time as a manager
of a girl single and sometimes as a Prisoner and marketed state the novel is divided into 2 parts
part first days with childhood and his affair with Rolling In he was convicted and second part
materials which are those transformation into the Swami at the family man after get release from
the state and their own the parts are then connected that who is the director of the while the
second part is narrated by the novelist himself mean by RK Narayan the novel is divided into 11
chapters of an equal length and the setting of this novel is any Malgudi Days Malgudi is a
fictional town in India the plot of the novel has been designed in the manner of a biography the
president and the past have been connected together the flour and have a beginning middle
and end the hero is presented throughout the novel and developed logically that this novel can
also be inducted as a woman is not win the technique of double direction assault of the past the
technique is followed there are three important episodes and plays an important role in all these
three in the first episode Raju is the leader died in the second hey between null and 11 of Ruby
and in the third and last part Mahatma status now let's look at important characters of the novel
character of the novel is Raju Raju is the hero of the novel and the whole of the story revolves
around him he comes before The Reader in various forms like to read write a passionate lover a
criminal Aqua me a picture and a lover of mankind important only are elements is the heroine of
the northern flavours and daughter of a Devdas se San Mein in economics and Marco is a
husband married her to help her writing status but the love for dark is condemned by Marco for
him whether it is p*********** do this as a charming and fascinating personality and Raju fell in
love with her at first sight to see come to write do for the desired the perfect girl a dog dance
become smarter than she becomes a professional dancer card and see a lot of money is
important character is husband of roses he comes to Malgudi which is right Rosy she has a
keen interest in the ontological studies and 2 in ancient paintings and it comes to mangudi to
find out the ankle and Treasures of 8 most important character he lives in the village Mangal
and his eight in raju.com plazo into the only man are state important character is whether she is
an uneducated traditional women sea level compared to the presence of Ruby in a house tree
leaves her own house with her brother when he doesn't live here house there are minor
characters also like to Raju father and who is a taxi driver novel start switch Raju Raju has just
released from that will then he goes to an ancient temples on the banks of the river service near
will need to balance who lived in the village Mangal evalyn tell him tell you that if condition in the
validation system has refused to marry the Manchu family members that's why when is very
forgiving said not to ask him to bring his sister in the mornings next day when it comes to him
with his sister what is nothing she just says that every method takes time for solution and events
whatever is written happen and no one can change it when and if you forget to take expired with
the words uttered by Brooks again come to Raju and place that his sister wedding to vary the
man Taylor elders are family member know when used to come to Raju teli after sometime a
few others also come to fees as you when they know what is that we need nobody visited Raju
and Raju was whether worried about food list of the temple and the boys to go back and tell
other people about him the boy announced know all the people in the village about Raju a large
number of men women and children visited arrived with lot of gifts and food stuff now Raju give
long hair and beard to look like Swami his audience increased every day he talked on
philosophy prescribed medicines also he pass attachment on the distance of the people
regarding the divisions of your property now you have no time for it personal life terms to the
past and you railway station was great as a father was given it stopped at the station is near the
mangudi station but after some time to start a diet that Raju closed due to father stop and he
becomes not be complete tourist guide he used to guide to disturb welcome to win it and his
reputation as a guide to close to the extent that he comes to be known as Railway Raju used to
guide travelers and there was developed of the various kinds of someone interested in sight
seeing some were interested in photography and some are interested

yt1s.com - An analysis of The Guide by R K

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Today we are going to talk about R. K. Narayan and his novel The guide. Now before I
begin, let me tell you a bit about our kin around himself, his biographical details and his
writings. So R. K. Narayan was born in Madras, South India, and educated there at
Maharajas College in Mysore. His first novel was Swami and friends, and its successor,
the Bachelor of Arts. All these novels which he was writing, which I'm going to mention
are all set in the imaginary fictitious territory called malgudi.
Now, other novels based in malgudi are the dark room, the English teacher, Mr.
Sampath, The Man Eater of malgudi, financial expert, the painter of science, Tiger for
malgudi, the vendor of sweets, talkative man.
His novel, The guide, which was published in 1958, won him the national prize of the
Indian literary Academy is this country's highest literary honor. He was awarded in 1980
the AC Benson medal by the Royal Society of literature and in 1981, he was made an
honorary member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. There are
five collection of short stories which he has written a horse and two goats and
astrologist j and other stories, lolly road, under the banyan tree, and malgudi days, he
published a travel book called The Emerald route, three collection of essays, a writer's
nightmare next Sunday and reluctant guru. Then there are three books which she wrote
on Indian epics. Apart from a volume of mama Moyers, and titled My days, no arguing
Iran was a great writer of characters. He is praised for his art of characterization. He
has created his characters with a lot of consideration. And all the characters are
originals. And everyone that you see in his novels seems to be someone from around
your own self. They are people who are commoners. They typify humanity. There are
people like them in the whole of India. And it's not just people from margaree whom he
has brought in the in his works, it is people were found in the whole of India, typical
habits, typical way of talking typical life style. So his characters are based on
psychological treatment you'll find all his characters are real and lifelike, as I said, and
definitely immortal characters, like the character of Swami is someone to whom we can
relate even today. Now, coming to this particular novel, we talk about the guide. Now the
guide it begins on the outskirts of the quiet village of malgudi where there is a simple
villager who's called who is called Wayland, and he mistakes Radu who has just come
out of jail and resting at the ruins of the temple near the river. He mistakes him as a holy
man. And he discusses his problems with Roger and Roger who is least interested, but
still, because he himself does not know what to do. He talks to him gives him some very
sane advice, and Waylon is under the impression that he is definitely a very holy man.
Roger is reminiscing about the time when he lived in Calgary with his mother and father.
He grew up at the train station, they had a shop, he remembers all these things. He
remembers that he was called railway Radu by the people out there. And he was a
guide. He used to guide people he loved talking to people he loved to meet new people.
And there was a comfortable life he had been having with his mother after his father's
death, until the day that things changed with the coming of Marco and his wife, Rosie.
And after they came raggio started having an affair with Rosie. Now this Rosie was from
the family of dancers, she loved dancing, but Marco, her husband was very strict. He
was against dancing. And he was a man who was interested in architecture in world
caves and he was busy with that and that is why he had come to Calgary. And Roger is
given the task of showing him around and some space later he talks he tells Roger to
show Rosie and that's the time and roger discovers rosie's love for dancing when takes
her to a snake charmer has had to see the snake dance
and
we find that rosie herself is much interested in dancing but keeps herself away from it
because marco does not like it and when marco discovers the relationship between
roger and rosie he deserts his wife and goes back and rosie comes and starts living with
rajiv and rogers mother is highly disgusted she goes away to live with her brother and
rogered takes all the trouble to make rosie he changes her name to nalini and he takes
all the efforts to make her a great dancer and they actually start earning well and living
in a big house and that's when he commits a forgery and he is caught by the police right
in the middle of a dance performance and is taken to jail and two years he is put in
prison now this roger loves prison also and he likes the lifestyle there because it's so
regular and he is released from prison because of his good behavior and when he
comes that's the point where the novel starts that he's sitting at the river near the river in
the on the temple front and he is found by waylon now vaillant takes him for a very
religious man and he tells him about the problem that his sister is not getting married
not ready to get married and so he brings his sister to roger and roger tells her what
must happen must happen no power on earth or in heaven can change your scores just
as no one can change the course of that trigger and waylon sister is so mightily
impressed that she goes back and agrees to getting married and this is the change in
the attitude in the of the villagers and everybody starts rushing to raggio thinking him to
be a very religious man and often on people come to him with problems and raggio
starts getting into the character he starts talking in a very somber
manner
and he starts saying profound things and then faiman strikes and people are very
disturbed and they start fighting with each other and radu tells to baylands brother that
conveyed to the villagers that i will not eat until they stop fighting and violence brother
somewhere is confused and he goes and tell to the tells to a villagers that roger will not
eat until the rains come and that gets roger into trouble he didn't he never wanted to
fast for the rains and he seems very angry also with waylon for having put him in this
trouble but he just cannot help it why because all the villagers are rushing to him and
you know folding their hands in front of him in the hope that he definitely can save them
from this famine and so raggio initially unwillingly but later on willingly gets into the
character he does the fast his condition becomes quite bad and on the 11th a day when
the doctors tell that he will not live anymore roger raggio gets up with the help of waylon
and other of his friends and he's taken to the river and when he is there at the river he
says to waylon that whale and it's raining in the hills i can feel it coming up under my
feet up my legs and he sags down now when he sags down arcanine has not told us
that he died he has not told us that he lived he has just left at that because it actually
does not matter what happened later on what matters is that a man who had committed
a big fraud was now a totally changed character he had converted himself and he had a
cause to live for and that's the best part of it so we find you know that railway radu who
was the protagonist of the story was born in calgary born in a lower middle class family
very smart very savvy love talking traveling and the change comes with the coming of
rosie then he commits the forgery lands himself in jail meets veil and becomes a sage
and then has a cause to live for so if we try to write the character sketches roger we
must try to analyze them on these branch like you know roger was a central figure of the
novel then the complexity in his character which we see you know in the beginning what
he was here's his desire to always meet people talk to people be in the forefront make
himself indispensable and then roger the guide was guiding people to all sorts of places
telling them so much about it, making a living out of it, and loving the work of a guide
more than that of a shopkeeper, Roger the lover, the man who loved Lena Nalini or Rosie
and what he did for her, he changed her life. Although no he had his own greed also to
satisfy his need for money also to satisfy, but still as a lover, he did a lot for her. Roger
the prisoner who was a model prisoner in the jail and who was doing things very right
they're not causing any kind of problem and raggio this Swami who lays down his life for
the rains, which were not coming in malgudi not mulberry I'm sorry. in that village, where
he was the village was supposed to be miles away from malgudi where he had actually
started living. Now the next more important character next important character is Rosie
and she is the one who changes the life of raggio. Now she is the hero indefinitely. She
belongs to a family of dancers dedicated to temples she's a woman of independent
thought and ambition. Sugar typical Indian woman because she loves her husband
dedicated to him although her husband does not treat her very well. He is his attitude
maybe termed as apathetic because he does not
care about her. She is a devoted wife. She is worried about him. When he is four days in
the cave of malgudi. She
is worried what must Marco be doing? She has her desires. She wants to grow in life.
She has her dreams to fulfill she wants to do a lot in life. She's very lively character. She
loves to dance she loves to roam around. But we find that because of Marcos, Marcos
dislikes she has kept herself in control all her desires she had kept under control until
the time she finally meets a man like Roger. She is completely devoted to dance we find
she practices for three hours early in the morning she would get up and practice for
three hours. She was religious by nature because we find that she had a she had an idol
of nachfrage in her office and she was dedicated devoted to Goddess Saraswathi she
was passionate by nature she did not believe in you know class distinct distinctions that
okay, I am rich. So I'm going to meet rich people like Raji used to tell her after she
became rich that you know, you didn't should not go and make mix with three non low
people below class people. She always said, I don't believe in all these things. She was
true to her lover to the end. Even though he defrauded even though he committed
forgery. She paid away all his debts. She started her life and knew she again started
dancing. And know that we find that Rosie did anything against Roger to cause any kind
of problem to him. She was always devoted to Roger. That's the best thing we find
about. You know, if you look at Marco again, he is a character who's very serious,
studious, doesn't like to meet people. He is lost in ancient civilizations. And he has a lot
of passion for his work. He forgets the existence of Rosie neglects her like anything. But
he's very controlling and dominant by nature. Like he was very clear about the fact that
he does not like dancing and Rosie should not dance. He was very rigid and cruel. We
can say because we find that at the point where Rosie Brexit to him that she was having
an affair with Dr. Zhu. And she asked for forgiveness. He does not forgive her. She
keeps on going around him for three weeks. Just like a dog as she says herself, like a
dog, waiting for his affection. She kept on going round him, but he never once listened
to her and did not forgive her. In the end. He told her to stay back and he had only one
ticket and he leaves her and goes, but in the end we find and when she has become a
good dancer, Marco does attempt to reconciliation with her by sending his advocate to
her. Apart from these main characters, there are several minor characters in the novel
like Rogers mother and Uncle Maloney money Joseph Rogers lawyer The same goes for
I hope you have understood the novel and if you have any questions regarding this novel
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to answer you and satisfy your queries thank you
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