Lu Xun’s Diary of a Madman is story of a man who documents his experience with the world around him after being hidden away for a long time. In his journal the man discusses  his walk through his town. During the man’s walk he realizes that the neighbors dog barks at him which is odd to him.Following the dark barking incident the man realizes that everyone in town is whispering about him even the children. The man thinks that he has done something wrong to deserve this. However , the man comes to the realization that the people of the town are into cannibalism and want to eat him. 

The man conclusion of cannibalism makes him want to find a reasonable explanation for whats going on. The man starts looking through his people history and his prior knowledge  to come up with a conclusion.  The man says, ” when he was explaining the classics to me he said with his very own tongue that it was all right to exchange children and eat them” (pg 248) . The man is convinced that this is something traditional for his people and they will have no problem eating him. In addition to this the man makes even more extreme claims about his neighbors and says “the wolf is relative of the dog and just a few days ago the Zhao family dog gave me a funny look its easy to say he’s in on it too”(pg 249). The man is convinced his neighbors have  trained their dog to eat him too exaggerating what happening to him not letting him make a clear choice.

Lu Xun’s Diary of a Madman and Kafka’s The Judgment are very similar because both main characters are living in society where they are just trying to figuer how to deal with society changes.  Although both man are similar they are different in the way they handle their problems. The man in Kafka’s story runs away from his problems and ultimately kills himself , but the man in Lu Xun faces his problems head on by trying understand his surroundings by using logic and standing up for what he believes in even though people are challenging him.