Select all the correct answers.
Based on the passage, which of the following best describes how Gregor feels now that he has become a giant insect?
The Metamorphosis
Gregor needs to be left alone now that he is no longer human
Gregor finds it difficult to adjust to his new insect body.
Gregor feels the needs to be accepted by his family as he is.
Gregor is scared of his father and unable to communicate with his family
Gregor is sad because he is unable to transform back to human form
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by Franz Kafka (excerpt)
The flight of the chief derk seemed, unfortunately, to put
Gregor's father into a panic as well. Until then he had been
relatively self controlled, but now, instead of running after the
chief clerk himself, or at least not impeding Gregor as he ran
after him. Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right
hand (the chief derk had left it behind on a chair, along with his
hat and overcoat) picked up a large newspaper from the table
with his left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room
stamping his foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his
father were of no help his appeals were simply not understood.
however much he humbly turned his head his father merely
stamped his foot all the harder. Across the room, despite the
chilly weather. Gregor's mother had pulled open a window, leant
far out of it and pressed her hands to her face. A strong draught
of air flew in from the street towards the stairway, the curtains
flew up, the newspapers on the table fluttered and some of them
were blown onto the floor. Nothing would stop Gregor's father
as he drove him back, making hissing noises at him like a wild
man Gregor had never had any practice in moving backwards
and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only been
allowed to turn round he would have been back in his room
straight away, but he was afraid that if he took the time to do
that his father would become impatient, and there was the
threat of a lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his
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