Blog Post 11
#1:Gregory Samsa woke from uneasy dreams one morning to find himself changed into a giant bug. The word choice seen from the first translation is very bland. 'Uneasy' and 'big' are non-descriptive adjectives and lack any type of imagery in them. The sentence structure is also a little weird because the subject is at the beginning of the sentence and the event that happened waits all the way until the end of the sentence. When I first read this translation, I was tripped up a little bit because of the weird way it was put together, especially without any commas where one could have been added. Again, there is a lack of description so I am not able to picture what is going on besides Samsa waking up and realizing he is a bug. #2:When Gregor Samsa awoke from troubled dreams one morning he found he had been transformed in his bed into an enormous bug. This diction is a little bit more detailed. It uses strong words like 'transformed' and this excites me m...