Literature and Migration

Kafka has written this book although he has never been to the USA. I will now interpret the book based on the evidence on his imagination. It is very interesting that the journey to the USA starts legally. But Karl Rossmann is almost an asylum-seeker. The reason for that is that he is sent by his family to the USA as a half-exile. Because he had a scandalous affair with a maid and this was an unacceptable situation in the case of his family with aristocratic origins. Therefore, he goes to the USA being recommended to someone who knows his father and starts to work in a job. In this first job he does the things that he is told to do without questioning. But later with the conspiracy of a friend, he encounters some problems such as being accused of fraud. Hence, he is fired and he has to find another job. Of course in the free market there are no labour rights and since we are considering the USA in the beginning of the 1900s where these themes are not controlled and checked by the l