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What Is The Metamorphosis By Granz Kafka And Night

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The loss of the things that make up one’s life is enough to make anyone’s foundation of belief, love, and humanity crumble. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and Night by Elie Wiesel show what happened from two different perspectives when someone’s world unravels. Both well-known works of literature illustrate how both characters’ outlook on life and their emotions changed through abandonment and dehumanization. However, in Night, Elie Wiesel loses his father through a struggle of survival, causing him to never forgive himself. Contrastly, in The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa loses his father in a different way; his father shunned him causing feelings of isolation and worthlessness. Both authors use the topics of abandonment and loss to illustrate how one’s life can unravel when the things one cares about the most is taken away. In The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa lost two of the most important things in his life: his job and his family. Gregor’s job is the one obligation in his life he resents, but he continues working for his family. “If I didn't hold back from my parents' sake, I would have quit long ago” (Kafka 4). Through Gregor’s devotion to his family he becomes the sole provider for his family and when he loses his job, he feels as though a part of him is lost and his life is unraveling. Since he was no longer the breadwinner for his family, his entire family had to work to achieve the income Gregor once provided. As a result, tension was created in the family and all

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