[4] A Report to an Academy

• The academy I pictured like one of those conventions for science, where they announce when they made a new discovery. Probably a lot of researchers and scientist gathered around to hear about a transformation of a human.

• I can see the connection between the two stories, “The Metamorphism,” and “A Report to the Academy.” I think this is Kafka’s way of showing how a person can feel so down, and so unappreciated, that you come to the point in your life where you don’t even feel human anymore, but you feel like a pest, or some sort of animal.

• The difference between freedom and a way out is that when you find a way out, it is sort of a temporarily escape. Like if a person is able to talk their way out of a situation. They’ve escaped right now, but their could be future problems waiting. Freedom is when you are out of a situation, and you don’t have to worry about nothing at all. Nobody can come after you like when you escape, because you are free, with no problems and a fresh start.

• Normally people would assume that the people on the ship educated the ape, but its really the ape who educated himself. He watched, and observed, what these men on the ships did, and because of his interest of what the people were doing, the people on the ship took I and helped the ape. The humans played a role, but it was the ape who really teaches himself, by getting himself involved.

• I think the ape believes he is a human, but to most people, he still an ape. He may show characteristics of a human, but does that really make him a human. Its like a baseball catcher and a surgeon. They both where gloves, but does it qualify them to do the same job? So he is still an ape, just with an above average knowledge on human characteristic skills.