Well from what I've read OSC bases a lot of meanings or plots from ideas or scriptures (Homecoming comes to mind), what hidden metaphors have you found in his books?
(btw. these should imply that OSC made these metaphors, rather that you have found an event that meets the books)
For example, I thought that the human treatment of the piggies could be related to how the early Americans treated the Indians, some with hostility some with happiness and a few that were playing a simple afraid. Much like how information, tools and skills were shared with the piggies but not as well as they could have been, (i.e. Americans traded with the Indians but didn't give them the best of goods, mostly old or poorly made goods) which reminded me of how the piggies realized that they were getting ok things but they really wanted to be like the humans and get space flight.
please share your own metaphors youve interpreted in OSC's books.
Posted by Quimby2999 (Member # 7044) on :
Damnit, you stole my thoughts. I swear I was reading SftD a few months ago and thinking just that (the pilrims and indian scenario). But also because the humans had better technology than the pequeninoes and thought their culture to be quite strange. Also they sometimes had a supercillious attitude toward the piggies, for example at first Miro and Ouanda didn't beleive that the piggies were actually talking to the trees or that the trees were actually their ancestors. They just thought they were crazy or hopped up on acid or something . . . . Just my thoughts . . .
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