Assignment: "One Moment in My Life When I Left the Cave"

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Using the Allegory of the Cave as your guide, talk about one moment in your life when you found yourself leaving the cave. Keep in mind that such an experience would require more than your becoming involved in something new or different. To leave the cave would also require that you search out a new perspective, precisely because you have come to question the reality of what you had thought was the truth. Or you could find that a new perspective has jarred you as you realize what you thought had been the truth was not totally the case.
 

In your discussion, you should bring in different elements of the Allegory to see how they might apply to your experience. For instance, in what manner was your newly discovered truth painful or difficult to see? How were you sure it was a better truth--in what way did the newly discovered truth illuminate or enlighten you? In what manner might you have sought to communicate your own cave experience to those who had not yet questioned their image of the truth? Did you find a certain violence or anger in resistance to your questioning the truth? How did you react to that violence or anger?
 

This paper should be around two full typewritten pages in length.