If these stories are "art," what makes them a creative activity both for the reader and the writer? Choose a story and discuss its creative aspects and what is available for interpretation.
In Metamorphosis, the reader has to imagine Gregor as a bug. The mind has to work up an image of a human sized bug trying to perform an everyday activity like getting out of the bed or turning the door knob. For the writer this an even harder challenge, because the writer must write the story in a creative, out side of the box way so that the reader can imagine this bug. The words have to be perfectly descriptive, and yet leave enough room for interpretation of the image that is being pictured so that the writer can engage the reader's creative, imaginative side. By making the story creative and unheard of, the writer forces the reader to make up an image in his or her mind about what the situation looks like. He or she must imagine the room and the characters and the activities that the characters perform. It is like having a piece of art described to you without the piece of art in front of you. The description must be precise so that the image can form in the mind, but as in art there is room for interpretation about why the artist positioned certain objects or as in Metamorphosis why Gregor turned into a bug.
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