Reading Response

Reading Response

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Reading Response

Introduction

Various stories in the English literature uses the similes and metaphors in the stories. There are various times when the words are not enough to describe the stories and the real world are not capable enough to describe the stories. At this point the writers’ takes help from the metaphors and similes that can be a little gentle and polite with the tone of the story and give a diversified meaning to the story.

The usage of all such words was started from ancient literature of English where poets started using the metaphors for their loved ones and comparing it with the beautiful sights of nature that give them soothing and relaxed feeling. These tactics were later used by the authors of various novels in their writing where they were able to bring the interest of the story to the point where the reader can remain intact till the last page of the story. Similarly the authors of the following stories where the wording are metaphorically used to symbolize various incidents in the story so that meaning can be conveyed to the audience through delinquency.

Discussion

All the stories which are mentioned like Half-Life, The Mountains of sunset-The Mountains of Dawn, Comes Now the Power and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? All these stories have used various metaphors in the story to develop the interest of the reader where they can analyze the various situation by using metaphors and similes for readers to regain their interest in the story till the last chapter.

In the story Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, in this story he humans are used as a metaphor to androids as they both share similar qualities of multi-tasking and working like robots to get better achievements in their life. Similarly, in the other story The Mountains of Sunset-The Mountains of Dawn, in this story the usage of metaphors like for new life and for desire were used by the writers so that people can hope for new life, and new beginnings, as well as the desire of the people to bring happiness in life and all those desires which were all those feelings, are depicted through the enchanting nature and its views which they are unable to see or capture with their naked eye and all these are now in the forms of desires. Those desires for which they are hoping to be fulfilled in their life.

In the other story Half-life, the depiction of half-life itself is no less than a metaphor before the eternal life starts. All these metaphors use in the stories are giving a vitality to the story where they are able to bring a life to the story and can bring back the interest of the reader to the story which has been lost while going through dry and profound words but the words like metaphors and similes are used in the stories where the reader can see the other perspective of the story and can analyze the other aspects of story which were missing.

Conclusion

The use of metaphors and similes in the story can bring the interest level of the story to the level where the interest of the story can remain intact. This can help the readers to explore the hidden meaning of the story differently and can grasp the core meaning of the story. These metaphors and similes can help broaden the imagination of the reader and can increase the creativity of the reader as well as the author.