A Report To an Academy

Kafka's "A Report to an Academy" is an interesting piece. The reader is reading a letter addressed to the academy. You could presume that the academy would be the readers of the story. Which brings the topic of the story into an interesting view. This ape, who now is claiming to be human, is trying to suppress his history and tries to not think too hard onto it. He speaks about him learning the ways of the humans. He talks about being shot and captured by these men. These men would then attempt to teach him different things. In his mind it was either he learned or he would forever be stuck in the small painful cage he was forced into. This was significant in the way that it pushed him to let go of who he was and become something else. He is so afraid to turn back into his old self and be put back into the cage that he is disgusted by the ape he sleeps with and refuses to remember his old ways. I don't think he is a human or an ape. To me he is in the in-between stage where he doesn't know where he belongs. Much like the children of immigrants whose identity is divided into two, they feel as if they don't belong in either place.