Cockroach

“What if I went back to sleep for a while, and forgot all about this nonsense?”(87). The Metamorphosis, written in 1913 by the German author Franz Kafka, tells the story of Gregor Samsa, a travelling salesman who wakes up one day turned into a giant cockroach. Throughout the story, the reader can appreciate the consequences that occur when the main character of the story goes through a transformation that subsequently disrupts the family routine. His family is now forced to make significant changes to their way of life in order to survive economically now that Gregor is unable to be the money-earner and supporter of his family. This short story is believed to be a reflection of Kafka’s life, as he also had the experience of having an abusive…

Cockroaches? Should they be the National Bug of the United States? Have you ever gone down into your basement or somewhere really dark and dirty like the sewers? If you have well you’ve probably seen a Cockroach before, these incredible insects have extraordinary “superpowers” and they set a good example for us. We might not notice it but they too have to survive and being able to adapt to things easily and being tough helps them to survive, this is why Cockroaches should be the national bug…

tremendous variety in body structure among insect species. These variety enable insects to involve relatively every environmental specialty on the planet, aside from the profound sea and the Antarctic. Because of its life span, on earth, cockroach is thought to be one of the hardiest gatherings of creatures. The achievement of the cockroach has been ascribed to an variety of innate qualities, such as, adaptability, diet, size, nocturnal, and reproduction.…

how it got to that point may be unknown, and both are disfigured and fractured. “Signifying decay and disintegration, ruins may have a creative, even provocative function” (1093). Ruins— like Samsa, may be decayed, but they have a significant meaning. The metaphor of the bug indicates that Samsa was not destroyed but, in fact he was not a perfect person. The ruin could also signify how Samsa felt trapped because he was not content with what he had and he isolated himself from everyone, even his…

hold similar views. Metamorphosis by Kafka, the Metamorphosis graphic novel by Kuper, and the short film Rivers and Tides narrated by Goldsworthy all mostly demonstrated negative changes. Once Gregor makes his tragic transformation into a cockroach, one of the biggest changes he suffers is that of his voice. "As if from deep inside him,…

keeping it as a memento, and runs to the door, making sure not to look at the dead bodies around her. If she stares too long the faces will haunt her. To her right is another door, she decides to open it. “Oh God,” Athena grimaces at the sight of more lifeless, frozen bodies. She leaves the room and continues down the hall to the right. “New home, my ass,” she bitterly curses as she steps down the stairs. “JESUS-“she stops herself from yelling out and quickly dashes back to the steps.…

His first and most prominent mode was exemplification of the black widow. This becomes apparent through the structuring of his paragraphs, usually making a claim in the topic sentence and giving first-hand examples of the claim. He states that “[m]any widows will eat as much as possible” and then gives his example of having an “aggressive female… [that] spent several hours subduing [a cockroach], and three days consuming it” (para. 5). His example of the voraciousness of the widow depicts the…

Cases (-- removed HTML --) The egg cases, also known as oothecae, are oblong, semi-translucent casings that can contain as many as 50 eggs. Some types of roaches carry their egg cases until it is time for the eggs to hatch, and the empty case is discarded wherever the hatching occurs. Other types of roaches leave the egg cases "glued" underneath furniture or in other sheltered locations. If the roach problem is severe, empty oothecae may be present on countertops, near baseboards or behind…

In the story The Metamorphosis by Kafka, a character by the name of Gregor wakes up a cockroach. But, It’s quite possible that this is not what the title of the book entails, and instead, the title of the book refers more to Gregor’s family rather than himself. The Metamorphosis was written during World War One, and a somewhat popular theme in literature was to reflect the ideals of industrialization during the turn of the century. In the book, Gregor is turned into a bug, and the whole family…

The Asian Giant hornet habitat is native to tropical and temperate Eastern Asia. Adult Asian hornet do digest solid protein, but they chew it into a paste to feed it to their larvae. Some of the distinctive features of this insect are that its wide black and orange body and large mandibles. The hornets skin type is like a shell. This bug could harm someone really bad. It is also in the wasp family. Here are some facts that you didn’t know. The insect could really kill someone if they were stung…