How are people approaching this years question? I’m having a little trouble getting 400 words out on a metaphor.
“Please respond to the following in 400-600 words: We often use metaphors to help us understand our world and persuade others. Write about a metaphor that you think is powerful, and explore its potential to be helpful and/or harmful in your thinking.”
What I decided to do was to compare the question to something I didn’t like about myself, and then described how that harmed/helped my thinking
I found a metaphor from one of my favorite books that related high school to the prologue of a novel and everything afterwards to the “real story”. I wrote about the ways in which I thought that statement was accurate and the ways I disagreed, based on personal experience.
I used a cliched one and share my experience with it in artistic exploration.