Explanation of my allegory:
In this allegory, there’s a lot of
references to my time so far in Literature of the Americas so far. Coming to
bard, I knew that if I did certain things right, the school could give me an
excellent and powerful education. The map in the film represents that: Getting
through the rocks gets you to the knowledge. I started in this class unadapted
to the class itself, like my character who tried to break the rocks with his
hands. I realized this, and so I made changes. I did eventually adapt to
literature, and began to learn things. My character, in turn, starts picking
away at the rocks with the pickaxes. Even though I began to learn more and
more, it wasn’t smooth sailing, and there were ups and downs, like in anything.
This is represented when my character breaks his pickaxes and has to get new
ones. For me, whenever there was a bleak point (when the character runs out of
picks), I managed to work through it and pick myself up (the character finds
new picks). Time seemed to fly by in this semester, shown by the speed of the
video. Finally, now that it’s the end of the semester, I kind of reflected on
what I learned, and I realize now that it’s a lot of things of varying
importance, but a lot nonetheless, especially compared to what I knew at the
beginning of the year. This is shown by the character beginning to see the
light of the knowledge room. I definitely am no master at literature (if that
is possible), so in the allegory, a lot of stuff is left uncovered, to keep
working for. As for the music, it's kind of a cheesy but funny song, so it represents the fun that I had in this class.
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