Open and Metamorphosis Writing Styles

In Open Agassi's uses a type of language that is free flowing and interacts with the reader. Agassi develops the story obviously in a first person point of view but his description although detailed is simple. He does not over develop his thoughts and put the pen to paper with only what he would actually say, not making the language much more exceeded then his intellect, which on the other hand I feel allows him to relate to the reader with ease as even though he is a professional tennis player who get payed millions he can relate to any average joe who has back problems or doesn't see he his family often enough. Agassi writes, "The finish line at the end of a career is no different from the finish line at the end of a match." Agassi writes about his struggle to finish his career. Yet he not only uses the metaphor for himself but for all other who struggle as well to get to the finish line. Agassi's writing allows people of all ages to understand and read. On the other hand Metamorphosis also uses small easy wording that lets the reader live in Gregors life. Throughout both novels the writing flow I believe carries the book to its understandable level. Now Metamorphosis is a lot more complex and the ideas behind are a lot more realistic because not all people can live the life of a famous superstar. Gregors life although sad is more real which ironically separate the real nonfiction book from this fiction book.

Gensis vs. Darwin

Both pieces of text offer us different outlooks on the not so simple creation of life.  Genesis is written in a clean style with a simple flow that makes it easy for all people rich or poor educated or uneducated to understand.  The excerpt seems to address the masses and is able to bring every person in existence together regardless of status.  The writing shines light on the magnificence of God and both literally and metaphorically as God is not only presented as the supreme being he is but also as a friendly attainable piece of life that we can relate too.  Although he is given the power he deserves credited with the right of what he says is made such as, "And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry gourd appear.".  This not only justifies the simplicity of life but gives it character but as well as face or in this sense and in every other religious view a character to represent it.  Now on the other hand Darwin, in my opinion is very deep.  It is drawn out at times dry and boring but then again sometimes science has to be dry and boring.  Darwin doesn't write for every to believe him or get happy with what he is trying to say, the way Genesis was basically a map for the common man to understand the creation of the heavens and the earth.  Darwin explains that evolution and the creation of mankind is methodical and has to be studied, that God himself could not have created everything on this beautiful earth.  Darwin explains that the random births and deaths and extinction can not be the hand of god, because there are things that end because of random acts of nature and but as well as species that stay past their time.

The Metamorphosis In Class Writing

In Metamorphosis, Gregor feels that he brings down his family by being around them.  His literal metamorphosis is the one we see throughout the novel as we seem him progress into his bug’s life and digress from his human life.  I feel that it is Gregor’s family that feed him these thoughts of digression and cause him to go into a cocoon of his own emotions yet ironically enough so does the rest of his family.  Gregor’s handicap, probably what his family would call it, was a literal and moral, showing and lesson.  It truly exemplified human nature and what one would do for his or her loved ones but as well as what they wouldn’t.  As Grete initially cared for Gregor, she got tired, restless, and annoyed looking at him everyday, in his bug condition and him not being able to care for himself.  As time went on, she grew into her own cocoon.  Gregor’s parents are a different story because they relied on him throughout their whole lives, so they felt that he dropped them by the wayside and they felt angry and greedy about his inability to provide more for them.  Although Gregor as a fictional character dies tragically because he felt that no one loved him or cared for him anymore, it is really a statement made about his family.  They cried for him and were saddened by the lost by but on pg. 53 of the novel, Kafka writes, “ It struck Mr. and Mrs. Samsa, almost at the same moment, how their daughter, who was getting more animated all the time, had blossomed recently…when at the end of their journey their daughter got up first and stretched her young body.”  Kafka writes about how Grete blossoms, which I think means that she is outgrowing her former life.  As literally as we think about it, she is becoming more mature because of her experience with death yet she is really leaving the old world and starting a new one…without Gregor, and that goes for the rest of the family as well.  She ultimately stretches and breaks out of her cocoon and like a butterfly transcends into a different journey, spreading her wings and flying, but in the case of the Samsa family it is what they think as leaving their tragic past.