We are all living, but what makes us different is what we are living for. Franz Kafka, Albert Camus and Inio Asano are three completely different authors; they all come from different countries and their books are different in so many ways, but some of their books share the same theme, which is living without a purpose and they were published during different time periods. Each one of the authors had written about their life experience and background in their books in a mysterious way using different styles. Generally authors create protagonists to show their exquisite humanity, pain and sorrow they experienced in their lives through their books. Although each of the authors wrote about their experiences and their incidents they seemed to be…show more content… For example, Franz Kafka the german author of The Metamorphosis lived during the Nazi movement. He lost two of his brothers in the Nazi death camps. He shows it in his book from the perspective of an ordinary salesman Gregor Samsa, a man who got swept up into an extraordinary event, which was him transforming into a beetle it affected his family financially, which forced them to rent one of their rooms to three lodgers. Kafka writes,” His parents, who never rented out rooms in earlier days and therefore were treating these lodgers with exaggerated differences, did not even dare to sit in their own armchairs” ( 99). Those three lodgers for him were like the Nazis who took over and destroyed his life. Kafka's father did not show any appreciation for his son's creative side and it affected his relationship with his father, which he showed in his book clearly, “ Now was tossing apple after apple in Gregor's direction”(84). The father of the main character in the book did not show any appreciation or love to his son even tho after his transformation. Kafka compared his disease (tuberculosis) with Gregor's transformation and it was really mysterious because you would only know about it if you know about Kafka's
