April 15

Today in class, we watched a video clip on the Allegory of the Cave. Mr. Schick was having technical difficulties in the beginning of class. When watching the video, I thought it was a weird punishment in ancient Greek. After, Mr. Schick explained that it was a allegory. The story was symbolism for something else. It has a deeper meaning. In class, we gave thoughts as to what it symbolized. Students guessed poverty, which is what I thought it was until Mr. Schick point out a good point. The author of the Allegory was Plato, who was the student of Socrates. Socrates was executed for enlightening the youth and disrespecting the gods; therefore, it would make more sense that Plato was symbolizing Socrates's death, rather than poverty.