The blood relationship between Kafka and his father symbolizes the genetic aspect of his father's presence within Kafka. Kafka cannot free himself from his father's presence since the curse created by his father “is part of [his] DNA” (387). From this perspective, the curse could be a metaphor for “[The anger]… all inside [him], torturing him], as a result of his father's lack of devotion towards him (387). Furthermore, his "father polluted everything he touched, harmed everyone around him," which symbolizes that Kafka's mind and identity were polluted, and therefore corrupted, by his father's negative influence (203). Kafka also possesses his father's destructive genes since birth since "half [of his genes] are made up of" his father (203). As a result, despite his attempts to “escape,” his father's presence continues to torture him (6). Despite his curiosity “Why do people go to war?”, Kafka actually wages a war within himself as he attempts to put an end to his prophecy, and therefore his father's presence, when in reality “nothing is truly over” ( 386). In war, countries try to annihilate the opposite