Allegory & Theme

She learns how to run a farm by herself.

She finds a laptop from the future.

She travels back in time.

She invents the Internet.

Sharon represents curiosity.

The computer represents danger.

Sharon destroys the computer.

Sharon lives until the year 2020.

knowledge

war

high school

courage

Technology can help us solve any problem, no matter how difficult.

The future will always be worse than the present.

There are human limits to the amount of information we can handle.

Understanding the past helps one understand the future.

the beauty of the real world

shadows on a wall

violent monsters

people escaping from caves

The shadows represent monsters.

The prisoners represent enemies.

One prisoner leaves the cave.

The cave disappears.

dark, frightening places

our hopes and dreams

stone walls

the limits of our perception

the ghosts of prisoners who died in the cave

the fact that we do not know everything about our world

problems that we create for ourselves because of our own fears

Games do not reflect the real world because they are artificial. 

People often draw the wrong conclusions because they do not have all the facts. 

Prisoners need to find ways to occupy their time, so they often invent new things.

Some people would rather live in ignorance than take an unknown risk.

Enclosed spaces make people misinterpret what they see.

Our instincts are often correct, but most people doubt them.