The Metaphor

a) Title and Author: The metaphor, Author: Budge Wilson

b) Biography: Budge Wilson is a Canadian author, she was born in Halifax Nova Scotia. She has written 33 books in her time, and she has received a lot of awards from her work.  Budge Wilson has done two years of graduate work in the university of Toronto. Budge was a child photographer and was a fitness instructor from 1968 to 1989. Budge Wilson's books have been published in ten countries and in seven different languages. 

c) Symbol:  This image symbolizes that any type of love can slip away  just like that. It doesn't matter what type of love it is, teacher love is a big one. It also symbolizes that there is no right or wrong love.

d) Response: 

1) Is charlotte right for blaming herself for Miss Hancocks death? No, because what happens in life happens for a reson, yes if charlotte would have talked to miss Hancock for 10 minutes the bus would have been gone, but things happen for a reson and you should never blame yourself because the person who died would not have wanted you to do that.

2) what recommendations would you make to a teacher from moving to junior high to seior high? I would tell them to maybe change their teaching skills up a little bit because the older kids are going to be harder to handle in atitude wise then younger kids.

3) what do you think was the authors main purpose for writing this story? I think that the author might have liked metaphors, because she liked to put them in her story. The author's purpose could have been that a situation like this has happend to them in  a similar way so they felt the need to write about it.

4) describe two people that have influenced you in the years you have been in school using similes.  Mr. Bryson is like a clown that waddles down the hall smiling at everyone he passes.


My dad is like a gorilla climbing the tree to his banana to eat it for lunch. 

Questions (Critical Thinking) For The Metaphor

1) Why do you think the author wrote the text? I think that the author wrote the text because she wanted to show some people that you can have a good relationship with your taecher. Not all people have the best home life or a great mothere or father.

2) What does the author want you to think? I think the author wants you to think about the ending, giving yourself the right to think if Charlotte was nicer to miss Hancock then she would'nt have died. I personaly think that what happend to Miss Hancock was fait and fait can take you when ever it wants.

3) Do you belong to any of the groups in the text? Yes, in away i do, I love having good relationships with some teachers.

4) Does the story remid of a real-life event (your own or your others)? Not my own but i am sure that this kind of thing has happend to otheres, because i have never had a teacher die or know a teacher who has died.

5) Does the story remind you of another book or movie on a similar topic? yes i have watched  a movie named "mean girls" and in this movie a young girl gets hit by a bus because all of the bad and evil things she has done to other people.


6) How does the story help you think about social issues and social justice? It helps me think about social issues because some students have these kinds of relations with teachers, and you never know which teacher might die or get hit by a bus.


7) What action might you take from what you have learned? I have learned that you should be nice to everyone in every way because every body is a normal person even if it is a teacher.


8) What big question has this text left you with? If  Charlotte  was nicer to her teacher (Miss Hancock) would she w
have gotten hit by the bus