the fact that you wouldn’t immediately recognise if you saw a double of yourself because how we perceive our own appearance is different to how everyone else does and because we’re used to seeing only the mirror image of ourselves honestly brought my insomnia out of remission
When you understand that kids and teenagers being salty about literary symbolic analysis comes from a very real place of annoyance and frustration at some teachers for being over-bearing and pretentious in their projecting of symbolism onto every facet of a story but you also understand that literary analysis and critical thinking in regards to symbolism is extremely important and deserves to be not only taught in schools, but actively used by writers when examining their own work to see if they might have used symbolism unintentionally and to make sure that they are using symbolism effectively:
