So I thought this article had some very good points, it pointed out some very weird interesting things that I never really would have thought about. I kinda just watch the show and look for interesting occurrences and issues; I never really thought much about all of the metaphors. The whole show is a giant metaphor! I don’t know, though, how much I agree with this metaphor. Highschool really wasn’t a living hell or anything to me, I think it was a fun 4 years, but I see where the producer is coming from. High school was hell to a lot of people, I’ve heard people say it, and when you're in college you hear it more. I like college a lot more than highschool, but it wasn’t hell. Now theres a show that shows this metaphorically. She is a teenager who goes through the classic issues in higschool, along with her friends. Weird love triangles, teenage angst, not making the cut for things like the Cheerleading squad, quibbles with parents, and the makers of the show have magnified this by adding vampires and other mythical creatures to it, which must be slayed by Buffy. The show centers on her and her two friends, and its showing them fighting daily battles with creatures, which is a parallel to kids in highschool who fight and overcome little daily battles. Though I didn’t find highschool anything like this, as others, I’m sure, would say, to some highschool may not have been a fairytale.
I also don't feel like my high school life was hell at all. In all honesty though, the only thing that can make a situation feel like hell is if you make it so. In high school people tend to find themselves getting into hell-like situations because they get caught up in the hype or just don't know how to avoid them. Either way, the only hell you have to deal with is the one you put yourself into.
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