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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Chapter 9 The Cathedral

Josef is assigned to escort an Italian to the cultural spots of the city. One of these spots is the cathedral where he is supposed to meet the Italian, who never shows. Josef starts to doubt the court system, and the people around him, thinking that they want him away from his office so that they can look through things when he is gone. The Italian never shows, but a caretaker escorts Josef inside the cathedral where a priest, who actually works for the court tells Josef of his case being caught up in the lower courts. Josef seems to trust the priest completely, ignorantly believing some of his advice. Yet again Josef is being controlled by someone that works for the courts.

1 comment:

  1. K. really doesn't make any decisions throughout the book, he is the puppet of the government. Everywhere he goes and everything he does is part of he states plan. They expect him, just like Kafka is expected in the castle in the Kafka movie. I don't understand why the court would want to punish K. if he is their puppet though.

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