“High School is Hell” explains what issues the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer deals with. The chapter picked out certain metaphors used in the show and dissected them, pointing out how they can be related to real life. The main point of the chapter, however, was that many of the metaphors used in Buffy are very relatable to the real world. Also, some of the principles of the show that seem like metaphors, are not actually a metaphor, but a literal representation of something.
I have only seen a few episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but I think I see what the writer is trying to convey. The writer was talking about how storytellers use monsters or some sort of evil to represent problems or fears of the real world. The question brought up when talking about this from the chapter was, “Does this mean that at some level, the metaphors are more real than we first expected and that there is some truth behind the myth? Might it be that the truth is scarier than al the collective monsters put together?” I thought this was a great question to ask, because I feel like most people assume that stories or tales are just fiction. I feel like people fail to see through the created monster to what the writer is trying to portray. For whatever reasons (maybe the reader or consumer doesn’t agree with or want to accept the intended message, or the person is just reading or consuming the media for entertainment) people don’t fully understand or comprehend what they are consuming, which is a shame because most of the mentioned material discussed in “High School is Hell” is deep, thoughtful, meaningful and extremely prevalent in society.
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