countered were not much different from his former classmates. He began to isolate himself from everyone around him and eventually ended up in a mental institution. Running away from the problem did not work; I began to understand that I would have to learn to accept the differences between people before I could live life happily.Macbeth also changed my views and attitude towards life. I began to feel over whelmed by the everyday struggle to do what was right and not to conveniently choose the easy, morally wrong path, much like Macbeth in his lust for power. I would see everyone around me cheating and lying just to receive an ‘A’ on a quiz or test and I began to think of how easily it would be to follow the rest of my classmates. Macbeth’s sudden gain of power by embracing evil over good showed me the consequences of choosing the wrong path; he was killed for his treachery. His decisions throughout the play eventually led to his own demise and I was reassured of the reason for living my own life honestly. By seeing the mistakes of this fictional character, I could learn from the novel and grow stronger as a person by not choosing to make the same wrong decisions. The last story I would bring, Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka is short, but I see it as a summary of my high school experience. I look at it not from Gregor’s point of view, but from the family’s. Much like the way Gregor’s family lived off of Gregor in the beginning of the short story, I entered high school expecting someone else to do the work for me. I started off not working very hard, and my grades suffered because of this lack of ambition. But my world transformed, I was forced to work hard on my own, make my grades by myself. I knew I could do it I had just never applied myself. I then blamed my misfortunes on the “beetles” in my own life, taking out my anger on my father and the others around me. I eventually cu...
