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GIVE IT UP !
While reading "Give It Up !" , an idea has beared in my mind, why Kafka creates an artificial world, that can not be true in terms of our daily life process. To understand Franz Kafka's mind, we should consider the how Franz Kafka hides the details in terms of "pictures" that are created in our thought while reading the parables. Moreover, as far as I see, Franz Kafka has dark pessimistic world in his inner world, since a parable is similar to our nightmares ! Well, to understand this picture we have to consider event sequence part by part.
In that short story that contains lots of important key ideas, one of them is time complexity, First of all a man thinks that there is no time problem to get station in correct time, however when he checks for the tower clock, he realizes that he has to hurry to get there at time. There can be a possible interpreation of it, which is men's watch is not same with the tower clock. Also, in here "the picture" that bear in my mind is that, there is a poor and terrified people against massive, terrifiying tower clock like a monster ! Here a big terrifiying tower clock, might be represent as an authority against a person.
In "Give It Up" a person has hurry to find his way and seeks help from policeman, however the result is not same with our expectations, policemen "turned with a sudden jerk"to his back. In ordinary societies policemen stands to help people if there is an trouble. However, when we consider Kafka's policeman as a single person, in my opinion, in story policeman is also get losed and does not care about it. His image is like, he is just standing in street for nothing, and does not care about it. However, when we consider policeman as an hierarchial position in society, he gives an order by saying "give it up !"
All in all, "Give It Up" has a dramatic and pessimistic way to give some uncertain messages under it. As a definition of parable, at least it should give either a religious message or interpersonal message in it. As an ordinar, reader I could not find any religious message inside of it, however at least I noticed some points of social issues that can be a candidate comments to social issues. Nevertheless, Franz Kafka has created cloudy and dark image in my mind ! Lastly, if we want to understand Kafka, maybe we should not think very deep.
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