Instruction
Kafka's novel, "The Trial" is fundamentally absurd. It starts with a man who is being arrested for something without any proof, and whose experience of the law only gets stranger from there. Nevertheless, Kafka's writing is capable of showing us, in fundamentally truthful and "real" ways, the nature of modern experience. Often, people will even use the term, "Kafka-esque" to describe a situation they've been in, or something on the news that reminds them of that feeling that they get from reading "The Trial."
For this week's assignment, write a response in which you describe one of those situations in modern life (maybe from your personal experience, or maybe something you've just observed others go through) that might be described as Kafka-esque. Describe the situation and then give an account of your reasoning base on the text. Why might this situation be described as "Kafka-esque?" Make an strong argument, using the text as support for your comparison with AT LEAST TWO QUOTES directly from The Trial.