David Huang
Mr. Dilworth
F block English
The Man in the Forest
A man is walking out of a forest. In the beginning, he had no idea where to go. Other people guided him through the first parts of the forest. The first parts were confusing to him, but was where he learned the most and was the happiest. In the thickest part of the forest was where he tripped and fell the most. He would always get back up, though, and he guided other people through the places he failed. Walking out was the easiest, but he was tired. He knew he was lucky to have gone through the forest, and as he walked out, he thought about all the things he did in the forest. He died smiling, happy with his journey through life.
David, I liked the analogy of the forest and life in your story- I honestly thought you were talking about a man hiking until the very end. This story made me feel resilient because there are good times and bad, and it's important to push through the bad times and help others. I think the epiphany is when he has finished walking through the forest, and he realized that he was satisfied with his life.
ReplyDeleteThis was a good use of analogies. Analogies and symbolism are often used to make broader topics more accessible to the common person, and I applaud you for employing them here, as I found it effective in terms of what you wanted to communicate to your reader. What I found interesting was that as the story is a representation of the span of human life, many of the feelings that the man had was the same as what we experience and encounter. In other words, we relate to and recognize the feelings that the man has. The epiphany is at the end of the story, when we realize that the story was a representation of human life, leaving us with guidelines on how to live it.
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