Dede, a 35 year old man has warty roots growing from his hands and feet after he cut his knee when he was a teenager. He was let go from his job and was deserted by his wife, now alone and living in poverty Dede is raising his two teenage son's with no doctors around the help with his condition. He has HPV and cannot fight against the virus that is causing his warts to develop. To help make money to support his family he travels around Indonesia as a "circus freak". In January 2007 he had nearly 4 pounds of bark removed and has been given some hope of recovering from this disease.
"That gentle voice! ... herd them rightly" p 113.
Gregor's family describes Gregor's voice as not being human like.
In Metamorphosis Gregor wakes up to being a cockroach. I think he transformed into a cockroach because in his life he's constantly doing the right thing, listening to his family, providing for everyone and never sticking up for himself. I think he's a cockroach because he's weak and needs to do something in order for his life to change, and him transforming may be the right thing for him to do to transform his life.
My example of transformation isn't as extreme as Gregor's but it is bad. How could you live with tree like bark sprouting from your hands and feet? I couldn't. But at least you can tell that he's still human, but with Gregor he's completely a insect. Dede can still eat with his mouth and talk but Gregor has no teeth and cannot eat and many things for him are changing. Only Dede's appearance is changing and there is hope for him to become partially normal again and who knows for Gregor?
