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Date Posted: 16:09:34 03/29/08 Sat
Author: keder
Subject: Gregor the bug

This book fascinates me but gives me the creeps. Not because the main character turns into a bug, but because of how his family reacts. This family is dysfunctional. The mother is timid and neurotic, the daughter displays the same tendencies but has a shred of care for the rest of the family that the mother does not. The mother likes to pretend she cares. And the father, well, he is horrible. He pushes off family responsibilities upon the others and still expects to be congratulated as the breadwinner. Gregor is horrible too, but in a different way from his father. He is horrible because he is a crippled human being. He has no thoughts of his own, he is a very low life form, his function is limited and he exists only to be used. Maybe that’s why he is turned into a bug; it’s not that he does anything very bad; it’s just that he does nothing good.

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