Freestyle Reading Assignment

Franz Kafka

"No one but you could have been admitted here, since this entrance was meant for you alone. Now I am going to shut it."

I choose this story out of Chapter 10 because I was curious about the "law".

This story was short but interesting. This boy sits at this door for all his life trying to get through the doorskeeper when all he had to do was just go in through the door. He waited and waited to watch the doorskeeper to find any way in that door, while the doorskeeper told him "it's possible" to go through the door "but not just now" when the time was right he would let him in. Near death he realixes that the man had reached his end and let him in the door and shut it. I found this story hard to get at first, after reading it twice I came to realize the thrive and willingness to spend his whole life waiting at a door just to reach the "law".