The metaphor on chapter 25 “red-tinted glasses” is that the red tinted glasses changes our perspective of life. On what we see and how we feel. When Sophie wore those glasses it quickly changed the color of the world but didn’t change anything else. The color red could also mean aggressive and also love. So it really depends on what your perspective is. Are you more on the bright side of life or the dark side, cause if it’s the bright side you would think the color red as love. If you’re on the dark side you would see red as blood or something unpleasant.
Everyone is brought up differently and everyone has different perspective. Sophie wearing the red tinted glasses changed everything that she sees in her daily life. It also depends on her, if she didn’t wear those glasses she wouldn’t have known how the world will looked like when it’s red. What she can see while she is wearing it and what she can’t see when it’s taken off. There might be a really big difference. Cause while you’re looking at the world of red you might not see things that you normally see in your daily life. It really depends what your personality is like, religion your in and mostly how you were brought up. A lot of different things will change if you were brought up in a different way.
I think that this metaphor could also be explained in another way. All the new life which comes to this world and also the children until the age of 13 they are all wearing the red tinted glasses. They haven’t actually taught to know what exactly is happening to the world they are living in. When they actually get taught for example the global warming that is happening, that is when they take off that glasses and realize what the world situation is in.
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3 comments:
1. Why, specifically, until the age of 13?
2. Perhaps they'll learn about global warming, perhaps not, but isn't that only pulling off the glasses of ignorance and putting on the glasses of another opinionated view of the world? No one can ever fully realize what -exactly- the situation of the world is, because, again stating the example of global warming, whether you believe it or not, can anyone on either side of the argument be providing the full truth to what this change in the environment brings, for example, would a fervent supporter of the global warming theory tell you that the Antarctic ice sheet is thickening in some parts, and that some people claim that most of the antarctic is cooling down, and not warming up? I think not.
Aaron,
I agree with lawrence, why it is specifically the age of "13"?
Yes I do believe that people obtain a form of knowledge and more aware of their surroundings after learning about global warming, however that does not mean they are unaware of their surroundings before they were taught that. I like how you described the tinted glasses as love or aggression, however I think the red glasses shows us perspective of others, especially the limits of our senses. For example a colour blinded person might be unable to see any colour. So I think that the red tinted glasses was allowing us to understand and acquire knowledge of others.
Like the 2 previous comments, I too wonder why children until the age of 13 are all wearing the red tinted glasses. Majority of the children know about global warming before they are even 13.
I do, however, really like the way you mentioned about the color red and the different sides to it. It is our personality which makes us think of the different sides of red like 'love' or 'aggressive'. Then again, our personality may depend on the lens color of the glasses we are wearing.
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