One side of his body lifted itself, he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all by himself, the little legs along one side hung quivering in the air while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the ground. Then his father gave him a hefty shove from behind which released him from where he was held and sent him flying, and heavily bleeding, deep into his room.
Teste féloldalt felemelkedett, ferdén a két ajtószárny közé került, egyik oldala sebesre horzsolódott, s a fehér ajtón csúnya foltok maradtak utána, és hamarosan be is szorult, mozdulni sem tudott többé, lábacskái az egyik oldalon reszketve lógtak a levegőben, a másik oldalon pedig fájdalmasan odanyomódtak a padlóhoz - és ekkor, valóságos megváltásként, apja jó erősen belérúgott a hátsó felébe, és Gregor vérző testtel messze berepült a szobájába.