Famous Cave Allegory Essay

For the majority of the world, life can be described by Plato’s Famous Cave allegory. The cave allegory has been used in countless situations to describe the worlds dying race: Genius. Imagine we live deep inside an enormous cave with one long tunnel with a speck of light. The human race has been tied up since childhood in the cave so that they can’t move or see what’s not in front of them. The only images are the one illuminated by a light that creates a show in front of them. Socrates concludes that the people are unaware of their appearance or about anything around. all they can see is what is reflected by the fire. The moral of the story is the chains aren’t indelible and the cave exit is accessible to the highly ridiculed adventurous genius. The discussion challenges people to reconsider their …show more content…
Honestly, my family fled the black dominated schools in order for me to earn the best education. Even though from an affluent family, my parents still wondered how I would manage, ultimately not fitting in. As a child in white private school, I was always one of 20 black kids at my school. I got so used to not seeing any familiar faces at school. The worst part was that all the black students created a natural friendship. No matter if you liked the person or not, all the black students would be your friend. We faced adversity and culture shock every day, but had to find a way to adapt to diversity. We would all eat lunch together, go over to each other’s house, do homework, spend time outside of school together, etc. It has been just a natural feeling of similarity that bonded us all together. We all understood the struggles each of us went through everyday at school trying to fit in. The world we live in allows people to falsely classify people based on stereotypes and the color of their skin. There is no excuse or justification for identifying someone based on his or her