A Lesson in Metaphors

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English

 

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Carlene G

 

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March 9, 2013

 

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University

 

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He attends the meeting but when Jesus fails to appear, he is forced by peer pressure to lie and go up and be ?saved'. Hughes uses his story to illustrate how easy it is for children to misinterpret adults and subsequently become disillusioned. Adults sometimes forget that children communicate on a much more literal level than they do; their conversation is often sprinkled with metaphors that could have a very different connotation for a young person...
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For example a child might easily misunderstand the phrase ?its raining cats and dogs' or interpret the words ?Holy Ghost' as an apparition with hollow spaces. It is easy to see, therefore, that Hughes understood his aunt in a far more literal sense than she had intended. It is quite likely that he really expected Jesus to walk into the room and that there would be a flash of bright light...
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