it's also been my experience that most people, while at the same time arguing that a teacher is trying to force them into a specific interpretation, think that a teacher or professor is ignorant for seeing a work differently than you.
So, your saying the universe doesn't revolve around me....
I disbelieve....
You know how I still get angry about how we analyzed Lord of the Flies... in high school well I just remembered that my teacher thought it was a science fiction book....
no kidding
A science fiction book.
Do you want to know why?
Because when their rescued at the end its by a rocket ship.
Which by the way isn't a long shiny cylindrical vehicle used to transport people into space...
Its a ship
Used to fire rockets at places.
Rocket Ship
Think of it as an early kind of cruise missile ship.
I kind of take Bob Dylan's side when it comes to creativity.... not everything has to mean something either. At least not intentionally.
Sometimes a rock used to bash in someone's head is just a rock...