Janeczko included a quotation in the passage to show the public support for government efforts.
O illustrate the enthusiasm of German spies.
establish the competency of British code breakers.
O prove the historical significance of an event.
Read the excerpt from The Dark Game by Paul
Janeczko.
The first mistake of German intelligence was the error
of arrogance, believing that the British were not up to
the challenge of deciphering their messages. Another
mistake they made was sending duplicates and even
triplicates of some of their messages, with each one
using a different cipher key. This ill-advised practice
meant that the code breakers had a couple of different
versions of the same message, giving them a much
better chance of cracking the cipher. The men of Room
40 were, in the words of one historian, "reading Berlin's
messages more quickly and correctly than the German
recipients." This group of cryptography amateurs, who
were generally recruited from college faculties, was
able to achieve its success with "ingenuity, endless
patience, and sparks of inspired guessing."

the metamorphosis is based on an evident father-son problem. this story shows, as a result of the unthinkable transformation of the son in an insect, the deformation and destruction of the individual caused by the authoritarian and hierarchical structures of the family. the narrative begins with the transformation into an insect of enormous proportions of the traveling salesman gregor samsa, a lonely, introverted and submissive, who keeps his family with his work. when he worked, he was appreciated by everyone, but, now that he can not work, he is despised, especially by his father, but this is going to be joined, painfully for the protagonist, first his mother and, finally, his own sister, grete, with whom he had held a special relationship of complicity and affection for many years.

condemned by a deep sense of responsibility, gregor fears the reaction that his frightful aspect will incite in his family. he feels guilty for not being able to continue being useful to the beings he maintained. his own family, however, is ashamed and runs away from him, and even tyrannizes and resists him. the father, of a severe and despotic character, humiliates him and treats him with great cruelty. all his attempts to escape from the confinement to which he is subjected in his own room fail before the hostile rejection of the beings that surround him. prisoner in his lair and unable to continue playing the only function of making money he had, finally chooses, with the consent of his parents and sister, to die of starvation. with this, he is freed from a servile and unhappy existence. the family appreciates gregor while he fulfills the interests. but when he is unable to continue earning money, it becomes a problem, a shame, and family relationships begin to become tense, until coexistence becomes impossible.