One day in 1904 the young Franz Kafka wrote a letter to a friend defining the books that are worth reading. “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound us,” he wrote. “If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for?
How does the central metaphor of The Metamorphosis wake us up with a blow to the head?
Use the central metaphor and three quotes from the text to support your answer.
Requirements: 350 words as well as using textual evidence to support your answer.