+839 English Language Arts: No, the characters aren't JUST eating soup, the soup represents the troubles we sometimes face in our life and eating the soup is a metaphor for how sometimes we just need to take in our troubles and let them pass by. The spoon and bowl most likely represent something too. amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And the table and chair they are using represent the support their parents gave them

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And the person sitting in the chair is used to represent the hardships and stress brought on by society.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And the heat of the soup represents the burning desire...to eat soup...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The craving to to eat soup represent a hunger you secretly had since you were a child. When you walked in on your parents having a three-sum with your ugly-single neighbor. You have had a secret hunger of wanting incest sex ever since.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And sex represents some that you need to have though you are still young.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The shallowness of their bowls represents the feeling they all have that there is something deeper in life.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's why I love Language Arts so much. ;_;

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And this is why it's so easy to bullshit English papers. You can make up crap and it can still be perfectly plausible.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

thx for allowing me to view stuff at this angle in english now lol

by Anonymous 13 years ago

God I get this too much in English...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

wow my mind has been blown....I think I'm gonna go have some soup

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And the glucose molecules in the soup represent the bond shared by the human race and food

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Made. My. Day.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I was about to say that, but I thought my appreciation for their comment would have been better if I had continued the whole "And the ___ represents ___" thing going on, but I couldn't think of anything clever enough.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Also there's probably some phallic imagery in there. You can turn practically anything into a penis

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Next thing you know my alphabet soup is going to start spelling out Rush lyrics

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Don't worry Fatty, you can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

english is a class of interpretation. Your ideas may be different than someone else's ideas on the story. That's the beauty of the subject.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

AP lit has taught me to bullshit beyond measure. just like this.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What flavor is the soup?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Tomato, because the color red represents their anger at the world and their own struggles. It also represents their temptation to drink more soup.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

@661701 (Prosopagnosia): It could also be blue (blueberry soup perhaps?), to represent the boring-ness and predictability of life.

by Anonymous 13 years ago