The Metamorphosis is a novella by Franz Kafka that tells the story of Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman curiously transformed into a monstrous bug. It is one of the most celebrated works of literary fiction in history.
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Summary The novel opens with an evocative, "big picture" description of the "Dust Bowl," the devastating drought conditions that characterized the Plain States in the 1930s. Steinbeck paints vivid word pictures of "the last rains" falling, in vain, upon the earth. Raindrops bounce off of dyi...
“In fact,” writes Moffett, “the metamorphosis of societies as they splinter off from each other has been labeled ‘pseudo-speciation,’ in effect turning what had been one species of human into two.” Hunter-gatherer societies fell apart because of poor communication across hunter-gatherer ba...
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Rushdie responded to India’s banning ofThe Satanic Versesbysayingthat “the book isn’t actually about Islam, but about migration,metamorphosis, divided selves, love, death, London and Bombay.” The thematically complex work earned Rushdie aWhitbread Book Awardfor novel of the year, and it was...
1.(Animals) any cold-blooded vertebrate of the classAmphibia,typically living on land but breeding in water. Their aquatic larvae (tadpoles) undergo metamorphosis into the adult form. The class includes the newts and salamanders, frogs and toads, and caecilians ...
with Lucy and Rachel, has found. Nenny, too, is a part of Esperanza's identity. Esperanza cannot start from a "blank slate" in forging her identity, any more than any adolescent or adult reader of this book can. Our families, to one degree or another, for better or worse, help defi...