The Metamorphosis

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Creative writing assignment


When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed. At first he thought it was a dream. But when he realized that everything was real, he decided to take advantage of it. He left his house and wandered into town. People were terrified of him and started running away. He entered a shop and asked the salesman if he knew a female cockroach. The man nearly passed out at the sight of him, but managed to scream for help. The police arrived and shot him dead.

Written by: Lucie and Eléa (group 1)

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When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed. At first he thought it was a dream. But when he tried to get up, he realized his strong arms had really disappeared and been changed into weak legs that almost could not support his weight. When he finally succeeded in getting up, he crawled up to his mirror and saw in the reflection a horrible insect. He thought he was lucky to live alone. Written by: Aymie (group 2)

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When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed. He tried to get out of bed as he usually would but his body would not respond to his demands. Starting to feel uncomfortable, he cried for help but only heard a spitting, hissing noise come out of his mouth. He shut his eyes, and in a desperate attempt to awaken himself from a nightmare, pinched his arm very hard. A horrible high-pitched screech followed instantly. Feeling an unstainable pain, he opened his eyes, and petrified, he saw his claw severing his arm from the rest of his body.

Written by: Haruka, Bruno, Mathieu (group 3)

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When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed. He was so startled that he fell off of the bed and landed onto the floor with a loud thump. “Ouch!” he yelled, even if no one could hear him. Once on his legs, he realized that his human size had not changed. He was a huge cockroach, and knew his mother was very scared of these insects. His alarm clock indicated “7:00 am”, meaning she would soon come and knock at his bedroom to wake him up for school. “Gregor, time to get up!” she said while knocking on the door. Not hearing an answer from Gregor, his mother assumed he was still asleep so she opened the door and came into the bedroom. She immediately perceived the massive cockroach laying helplessly on the floor and let out an earpiercing shriek. Gregor tried to speak but he suddenly realized that his mother had just grabbed a broomstick. He tried to crawl away but before he could get away his mother started violently beating him with the broomstick. He squealed and squealed but she didn’t stop until she made sure the disgusting insect was dead. Written by: Alix and Charlotte N. (group 4)

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When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed. At first, he hadn’t realized it but when he got up, he felt heavier and perceived his reflection in the mirror. He saw two antennas on his head and more arms and legs popping out from his body. Gregor was horrified. Maybe the nightmare was not over so he tried to pinch himself in order to truly wake up. He tried many times without any success. Fright took over him and he fainted. A knock on the door woke him up and he heard the voice of his girlfriend. He jumped up and tried to cover himself up with his blanket. With a hoarse voice, he answered: ‘I’m not feeling well, can you please go away?’ He thought she was going to leave but she didn’t and answered: ‘No, its ok, I can help you, give you supper, tea whatever you’d like’. He was really embarrassed because he didn’t want to scare her so when she tried to open the door, he decided to escape by the window.

Written by: Julie and Estelle (group 5)

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When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed. At first he didn’t believe it, but when he saw that his bedroom was 1000 times bigger than him, he understood that it was really happening. He started panicking and running around his bed, when suddenly, he fell on the


floor. He stayed there during several minutes without doing anything, he was just lost in his mind. He heard such a loud knock on the door that it made him jump up. He knew it was his mother trying to wake him up and when he realized that she wouldn’t recognize him, he ran into his closet, to hide, but on his way to the closet, the innocent mother swatted him, and he died. Written by: Amy and Annika (group 6)

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When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself into a monstrous cockroach in his bed. The thought of him being a cockroach was preposterous, he simply thought that his size had shrunk and so he decided to check himself in the mirror. He then panicked and screamed for his wife for help. She came in from behind him and checked him out. She started laughing and said “Well…”. He turned around and found her transformed into a beetle. They did not understand what was happening to them but they did not care anymore. They were together, as insects of course, and they were happy. Gregor and his wife never got back to their human body but they lived happily ever after and had three children; two beetles and a cockroach. Written by: Alizée, Yassine and Juliane (group 7)

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When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed. He was so frightened. He jumped out of his bed and rushed down to the kitchen. His wife was cooking him breakfast and when she saw him in the corner of her eyes she panicked. She took the pan in which eggs were cooking off the stove and tried to kill him chasing him all over the place. She finally trapped him in a corner, raised the pan but as she was about to squeeze him, Gregor woke up from his nightmare.

Written by: Suzanne, Matilda and Emma (group 7)

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When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed. After the usual check to make sure that his legs and antennas were in place he crawled out from beneath the covers. “What did I eat last Night?” was his first though. “Was I bitten by an irradiated cockroach?” was his second. “Do I have supernatural powers?” His third. “Well I suppose it’s better than last time, I was sick of being an earwig.” Gregor realized he was hungry. “I was tired of decaying leaves and vegetation, now I can eat what I want.” He scuttled through the doorway into his old kitchen that he hadn’t used since these strange transformations had started taking place. In the bin, he found some rotten roast beef that must have been at least 2 months old. “What a feast!” Written by: Asalis and Clémence (group 8)

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When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed. A sting of incomprehension pricked him deep inside. He started getting ahold of the fact that just overnight, he had transformed from a homo-sapiens to an insignificant, and pestering insect. Ironically enough, cockroaches were a major pet peeve of Gregor. He started wandering around his house, looking for hope. He never gave a thought about the humongous size of his two-bedroom apartment, but of course, now he understood the value of it. The cupboards, the doors, the cold and wide floor, everything seemed as if it wasn’t his home. As if he was in some stranger’s territory. His miniscule size was something he still wasn’t getting used to. Wandering around his own property, as if it was an open desert, and terrified as ever, Gregor finally found the way towards his living room. A joyous moment took over him as he saw his wife sitting calmly, watching television. He knew that she would recognize him. She had to. He moved towards her, as fast as his tiny legs and his vestigial wings allowed him to. And there it was. She saw him. He thought about how happy she might be to have found him, since she screamed out of joy. He felt that he would finally be out of this dumb labyrinth of unexplainable things happening to him. His wife proved to be his beacon of hope. Before he knew it, she stood up and with all the force in her, stomped on him with her heavy, six-inch stiletto. Again and again, until his wife was certain that the disgusting creature was dead. What could you expect? Mrs. Samsa’s pet peeve were cockroaches too.

Written by: Ishani and Valentine (group 10)

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When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed. At first he thought it was a nightmare, but when he fell from his bed, he knew… In his dream, Gregor Samsa was


playing with ants in his tiny garden under the cold rain of winter when he noticed a cockroach. This cockroach was bigger than any cockroach he had ever seen. At this point he became very scared as he had a phobia of cockroaches. The cockroach started chasing him into the house and Gregor was stricken with fright. This was the worst nightmare he had ever had. The cockroach was getting bigger and bigger as he chased him, around his house. The cockroach was trying to eat him. Gregor then had a great idea and ran to the kitchen. In the second drawer of the cabinets, Gregor remembered that he had bug spray so he ran as fast as he could to the kitchen and in mid jump, he grabbed the bug spray and attacked the cockroach. But, in high dismay, Gregor’s effort to spray the giant monster missed and he fell to the ground. The cockroach then towered over him and was about to eat him. He then dodged it as it tried to pierce him with its sharp claw, and rolled under the kitchen table. At this point, Gregor didn’t realize that he had dropped the spray under the cockroach. As Gregor was about to die and the roach was going to swallow him, he woke up from his dream screaming and shouting. After Gregor had regained some strength, he realized, he was living his nightmare and his body was in the form of a giant monster cockroach. Written by: Hippolyte & Félix (group 11)

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When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed. He was in his hotel room in Hiroshima, Japan. He was there for a conference. He got out of bed. Walking on yesterday's newspaper, he could barely read the words but was able to make out « 7 August 1945 ». He then wobbled to his bathroom, feeling strange. He had just time to look at himself in the mirror when the ground began to shake. He collapsed when he regained consciousness the next day, everything was destroyed, and nobody had survived the explosion caused by the nuclear bomb. Searching for nutrition, he found a tiny cucumber, ate it and died. Who would have thought that Gregor Samsa would change into a cockroach, survive a nuclear bomb but die from a simple, organic cucumber? Written by: Juliette, Charlotte and Margaux (group 12)

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was going to swallowing him whole, he woke up from his dream screaming and shouting.


After Gregor had regained some strength he realized, he was living his nightmare and his body was in the form of a giant monster cockroach. He took the desert eagle gunshot in his night table. After writing a short testament, dedicated to his young wife, Gregor put the end piece of his frightening weapon in front of his forehead and he press the trigger. Written by: (group 13)

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When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed. He first did not realize what had happened to him, so he tried to get out of his bed as usual, but the moves he tried to make did not correspond to what happened, and he did not see anything usual, the normal view he had when getting out of his bed. He tried to call his brother who was spending the night with him and who was probably waiting for him to have breakfast. He hoped he would do the same as usual, and wake him up. And that is what happened a few minutes later. His brother came in screaming, a bucket of water in his hand. But as soon as he saw him, he stopped and seemed to be in shock. Of course Gregor could not explain what had happened, and that is why he began to fear what was coming next, as he saw his brother running back to the kitchen. He came back a few minutes later, a pan full of boiling oil, and softly came towards Gregor, who was trying to scream, but nothing came out. He felt the boiling oil running down his cheeks, but it did not burn him, it was actually freezing. And at this moment he woke up, his face all wet and cold, and understood everything as he heard his brother giggling behind the door. Written by: Tasio, Kim and Capucine. (group 14)

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When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed. Suddenly a loud sound of rushing water flooded the room and soon it was filled with it. Gregor found himself submerged in water and wondered if in this new body he would survive long. He swam to the front door of his house and found himself in an enormous sea with the surface far above. It took him about half an hour to reach this surface so he was amazed that he was still alive. Now that he was at the surface he could see a small island ahead with a small little cottage resting on it. As he walked on the beach he noticed he was very exhausted and realized he had actually been holding his breath for about 10 minutes. Just after having made such observation he fainted. Gregor awoke from this incredibly strange dream. Curious, he did some research and was astonished to see the precision of the facts in his dream. A cockroach could hold its breath during 40 minutes and it also could survive half an hour submerged in water. Gregor found these facts astonishing and he now felt great respect for the cockroach species. That was the day when he decided to become an entomologist specialized in cockroaches.


Written by: Christel and Celymene. (group 15)

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