Part one of term paper
After reading and rereading this short, yet deeply symbolic, parable several times, I have come to the conclusion that Kafka is equating the two aspects of illusion and reality. The parable seems to discredit our own senses by equating these two aspects. The illusion being how the trees smoothly rest on the surface of the snow and the realit ...

Part two of term paper
... relate to that person. The “tree,” as it is, while aesthetically the same, is individually different. Therefore one must come to his own conclusions about the representation of the tree. The parable also gives off a sense of an opinionated unity. While the narrator unifies his readers through the use of the pronoun “we” in the first sentence, the entire parable feels as though it is the opinion of the narrator. This fact poses a discrediting, of sort, to the validity of the parable. It may ...