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In four pages this paper compares and contrasts the suffering, separation, and alienation in these stories, how the protagonists change, and how their families change as a result. Two sources are listed in the bibliography.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez considered the consequences when an inexplicable physical transformation occurs that changes a human into a creature difficult to define - possessing both human and animal characteristics.
These startling chains of events profoundly not only affect the physical appearance of the individual undergoing the change, but how others react to and interact with the individual. In
each story, the protagonist also struggles with issues of separation, alienation, and suffering. Interestingly, as the protagonists physical deterioration increases, the family ambivalence about their conditions increases as well
until some form of separation is complete. Franz Kafka opens his short story with the startling observation, "One morning, upon awakening from agitated dreams, Gregor Samsa found
himself, in his bed, transformed into a monstrous vermin" (117). The progression from man to insect was rapid and was responsible for his separation from his family (his aging
parents and young sister Grete) and his employer, and the considerable physical suffering he would endure. In "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," a crabber named Pelayo was
assessing the property damage of home he shared with his wife Elisenda and their ailing newborn son when he noticed "a very old man, lying face down in the mud,
who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldnt get up, impeded by his enormous wings" (Marquez). Again, either resulting from the aging process or his unexplained physical changes, the
old mans health worsened over time. Eventually, he became even further removed from his human form when "stiff feathers began to grow on his wings, the feathers of a
scarecrow, which looked more like another misfortune of decrepitude" (Marquez). Separation based on the changes in the physical appearances of each story protagonist was almost immediate. Gregor himself barricaded
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