I think Natalie’s description of the entire situation as “random” is much better than calling it strange. I agree with Natalie because she is correct in saying that much stranger things have happened in the book than this. I also think that the government keeps getting caught doing some questionable things in the dark. What K. saw was literally going on behind a closed door. K. is kind of like Kafka in the film we watched in class because he sees something that is suspicious and should be brought to the attention of the public, but he chooses to not do anything. Whether K. will eventually elect to do something like Kafka did in the movie is unknown to the reader at this point.
I would not be surprised if there were more things of this nature currently under way in K.’s country. It is possible that the government is so convoluted because if it were to inform the people it is supposedly serving about every last detail, these same people would become more educated and would, in turn, be able to see all the holes and wrongdoings of their government. When and if the people are able to see the flaws of their government, they will begin to constantly question it. If the government is being scrutinized like this, it will not be able to carry out processes like the one including the whip man in secret anymore. All this questioning could also lead to the people breaking away and everyone knows that a government with no one under it is hardly a government at all.
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