Thursday, May 10, 2012

Sneetches: ALLEGORY

We watched a movie from Dr. Seuss and they show allegory. They use the star as allegory. They all think their different and shouldn't be friends because they "look different". It has literal and symbolic meaning in the story. They kept changing from stars, to non stars.The sneetches got each other mixed up and they couldn't tell who was who. They setting, characters, and objects and events represent allegory. They all go together and they tried to convey the truths about life, to teach religious or moral lessons, but in the end, they put their differences beside and end up all getting along, as one. The stars would criticize the non stars, and the non stars would criticize the stars. The sneetches learned that it's okay to be different, but everyone should be treated the same. Allegory was used in the story with Mcmonkey McBean. He at first seems like a hero, he took their money, and in the end, they realized themselves, they didn't need that machine to help them be one, they realized it was them selves who needed to be the change they wished to see in the world. Like in college, some students while on word, they just press auto correct and it corrects their whole essay. They teachers eventually catch them and in the end, they learn because they know it wasn't the right thing to do, go and make a computer do the work for them. Allegory is shown in the Dr. Seuss story, he uses many things that people don't even know are being shown.

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