In the metamorphosis, according to scholars, what does kafkas (author) use of the german word for vermin represent?

a. the famine and death caused by horrible sanitary conditions in the cities
b. the displacement of workers caused by the industrialist revolution
c. the horror people felt at the massive number of deaths in world war 1
d. the persecution felt by jewish people, such as kafka, in eastern europe

What is most likely the speaker’s reason to open with this? in approaching this problem, we cannot turn the clock back to 1868, when the [fourteenth] amendment was adopted, or even to 1896, when plessy v. ferguson was written. we must consider public education in the light of its full development and its present place in american life throughout the nation. only in this way can it be determined if segregation in public schools deprives these plaintiffs of the equal protection of the laws.