“The Metaphor” Questions 1. The metaphors Charlotte makes for her mom and Miss Hancock are very correct. Charlotte compares her mom to a “white picket fence” with “thorny bushes and barbed wire” on the opposite facet (72). Charlotte’s mom is a really lovely individual on the surface. She has nice hair and an incredible determine, however deep down she shouldn’t be that good of an individual. She is a really impassive and stern girl. In the previous couple of paragraphs of the novel she tells Charlotte that Miss Hancock’s demise was her personal fault.
Then again, Miss Hancock is in comparison with a cake.
The cake “was frosted by somebody unschooled within the artwork of cake ornament” however the inside the cake “was wealthy and delicate and really scrumptious” (80). Miss Hancock seems to be fairly unattractive on the surface due to her age, clothes, and extreme quantities of make-up, however she is a good individual. Her college students all actually take care of her and even decides to get her a trophy.
She teaches with nice enthusiasm and use a number of emotion. She can also be extra of a mom to Charlotte than her precise mom is. Charlotte’s metaphors tells us a lot in regards to the truths of those two characters. 2.
Charlotte’s mom and Miss Hancock are the precise opposites of one another. Charlotte’s mom is described as a really lovely an individual however she shouldn’t be an excellent individual. She has an incredible determine and had hair that regarded as if a hair dresser made it on a regular basis. Nevertheless, she is definitely a really impassive and chilly individual. When Miss Hancock died Charlotte couldn’t cease crying for she felt that she killed her, however all her mom did was inform her to cease crying for she was “disturbing the even tenor of [their] dwelling”(80). Additionally, she alters the folks round her with guidelines so they’re extra to her liking even when they don’t prefer it.
When Charlotte was little she preferred to make gardens with blocks, however when the blocks scattered throughout the ground her mom advised her to make little gardens as an alternative of enormous ones. Her mom clear up all her issues by telling the individual what the right habits is so she is all the time in management. Since Charlotte’s mom solves all her issues this fashion she is much less of an precise mom to Charlotte. In distinction, Miss Hancock is extra of a mom than Charlotte’s organic one. Miss Hancock is plump and wears an extreme quantity of make-up to cowl her getting old. Though she shouldn’t be a really enticing individual she does have an incredible ersonality. She praises Charlotte on how properly she will be able to write and even asks her if she wished to debate her metaphor about her mom because it Miss Hancock might inform she had some issues along with her mom. She additionally expresses her feelings in contrast to Charlotte’s mom. After she completed studying “Hamlet” she had “tears standing in her eyes” however on the similar time she additionally made her college students really feel the identical approach in regards to the play(75). In conclusion, Charlotte’s mom whereas extra enticing and answerable for herself is inferior to a mom whereas Miss Hancock who may be very plump and overenthusiastic is.