#lessons i take away while teaching a middle school kid about symbolism as a literary device

[strawberryblackcrown]

i gotta say, i never understood the whole recognition of self through the other easily until i looked at it like it's yin and yang. if you got rid of one half, could you even recognize what's left? without knowing what was gone? but with the other half present, you can tell what's what. and something in that clicked.