A Report For An Academy by Franz Kafka - Review

This story is a speech by an ape named Red Peter, who has learned to act like a man. He tells a group of scientists how he was captured from the jungle and locked in a cage on a ship. He realized that to survive and get out of the cage, he had to stop being an ape. So, he carefully studied his human captors and started copying them—learning to drink alcohol, shake hands, and even speak.

The story is funny at times, but also very sad. You see his struggle and feel how painful it is for him to force himself to become something he is not, just to find a way out.

Here is the kink to the text of the story:

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