Monday, March 14, 2011

Physics

In Kafka's the Metamorphosis Gregor and his father were always pressed to make enough money to pull their family out of a constant struggle to keep paychecks flowing. Unfortunately, Gregor's father's business went bankrupt and Gregor is forced to continuously work at a job that he despises. Him and I are so similar... To me the process of going through high school is just like Gregor's process of performing a job he hates until the family is out of debt, THEN he can finally quit! Unfortunately we all know that Gregor was massively disillusioned, and honestly the race of taking classes that we hate until we get to college THEN we can quit classes like Physics! Unfortunately, for all of us who have to take a core curriculum, we're all just as disillusioned as Gregor was when he was trapped in his own rat race, deceived by his father who had kept a little wealth from previous times. Our parents are keeping nuggets of knowlege that our journey through (what we see as unnecessary) core classes is only half finished.

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  1. Please note that Eric, in his defense, had just been doing Physics homework when he wrote this.

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