Demonstration of Impact - Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 1/4 cups of understanding of the importance of human interaction
  • 1 1/3 cups of sadness
  • 3 teaspoons of family betrayal
  • 1/2 cup confusion
  • 1 cup meaning of life
  • 1 teaspoon happiness
  • 2 large organic eggs

Easy Cupcake Recipe Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line cupcake pans with paper liners.

Combine understanding of the importance of human interaction, happiness, confusion, and sadness in a large mixing bowl. Add family betrayal, hidden symbols, and meaning of life into bowl. Beat for 1 minute on medium speed.  Scrape side of bowl with a spatula. Don’t worry, the importance of human interaction will be a little lumpy at first, over time it will smooth out and become worked into the batter.

Add organic eggs to the mixture. Beat for 1 minute on medium speed. Scrape bowl again.  Beat on high speed for 1 minute 30 seconds until well mixed. 

Spoon cupcake batter into paper liners until 1/2 to 2/3 full.

Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, and without any heartache still attached to it.

Cool 5 minutes in pans to ensure that all of the desired emotions are able to adapt to the temperature and not get lost in the unconscious mind.

Once cupcakes are completely cooled, frost with your favorite frosting, with the recommended frosting including sprinkles to hide the bitter aftertaste of the ending of the story.

Reasons behind my Recipe

I felt that this story was full of underlying symbols, and hidden feelings that Kafka couldn’t necessarily express in real life. That being said, I felt it was important to add a little bit of confusion in the recipe because if one didn’t have more knowledge about Kafka, they wouldn’t understand certain aspects of the novel.

Family betrayal was a huge part of this book, and after reading it showed me that even though they are your family, sometimes they can turn on you and completely abandon you. With that in mind, after reading this book it left me with a sense of sadness, thus adding sadness into the recipe. However, in any good cupcake recipe they always have opposing ingredients, such as sugar and salt, and thus happiness had to be placed in the ingredients list as well to balance out the sadness. The Metamorphosis did have some happy parts, such being when his sister took care of him and provided for him. 

The main ‘ingredient’ of this book that truly changed me, however, was the understanding of the importance of human interaction on the human mind. One never really has to think about such things as the lack of interaction, because from the time we are born we interact with everyone around us. Gregor obviously was raised the same way as us, but became isolated in his own house and hadn’t interacted with anyone in over 2 months. In such a short amount of time, Gregor was already feeling depressed and extremely saddened by his predicament and started to crave any human interaction at all. After a while, he became unsure of which interactions were appropriate and started to become a ‘burden’ to his family because he lost all of his human traits.

The ending of the story also made me bitter towards it, because I felt that it was a horrible way to end a story of isolation. The way Gregor died was horrible, and how quickly the family moved on left a bitter taste in my mouth, thus the need for sprinkles.