This quote serves as a metaphor because the cruise ship is the safe and comforting house while the life raft is school and life outside the house. It shows how girls feel trapped inside the life raft on open waters. If you are not a certain way, you will be thrown out into the water. The only logical answer is to stay inside the raft and hope things get better between the other girls or you survive until rescued. To girls, this is the exact way they feel about their clique. Thus, serving as the prefect metaphor.
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
They wanted me to get socialized
"Imagine you and your daughter on a cruise ship. The cruise director's job is to make sure your daughter is reasonably happy and entertained. There are scheduled activities and if she hurts herself, someone will be there to get her back on her feet. She knows most of the people on the ship and everything is familiar... As you watch helplessly, she leaves behind everything that is safe and secure, gets into a life raft with people who have little in common with her except their age, and drifts away." This quote is a metaphor. A metaphor compares to things by stating one is the other.
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Do you find this metaphor to be a functional representation of your life as a high school girl? Does Wiseman help to answer some of the questions you may have had about social norms and cliques in high school, or do you find yourself rolling your eyes a lot?
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