Extended Metaphor

     The movie I chose for my extended metaphor is "Shrek". I chose this movie because it's very relatable not just a to me, but probably to most of us in high school. I'm pretty sure everyone has watched Shrek, but if you haven't it's about an ogre that falls in love with a princess. His problem is that since he is an ogre, everyone judges him and assumes he's scary and mean. People just follow the stereotypes before getting to know him and it makes him a little bit cold

     I think this is very relatable not just to me or to us in high school, but everywhere in the world, too. Everywhere we go people are always judging other people, even way back thousands of years ago. People are judged by their religion, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and it isn't right. As Shrek and Fiona get to know each other more, they find out they have things in common and even start to fall in love. A lot of things happen in between but basically Shrek realizes that you can't please everyone so you might as well be yourself and I think that's what a lot of us, if not already, are learning right now. We are figuring out who we are and learning to be comfortable with ourselves.