In the passage "The Allegory of the Cave", by Plato talks about how prisoners that has been in a prison underground cave for many years live and how will they to react and see things after they get release. While being in prison they do not get to see nothing. Prisoners were chained facing the wall. The only things they was able to see was the shadow of everyone walking and passing by. The only reason they was able to see the shadows was because a fire was placed behind them, around where the path where everyone walked across, so that was what was creatin g the shadows in the walls. The prisoners were able to hear people speak but not clearly, they heared mumbeling going on.
Once the prisoners were released to the outside world, they saw everything different because it wasn't nothing that they was expecting to be or see. While being outside, the sun bothered them. The reason the sun was bothering their eyes so much was because they was in prison in the dark for so many years that when they finally saw light, the light was so strong and bright that it wasnt blinding them, not allowing them to see. When the prisoners saw everything clear outside, they ran back to the cave to tell the other prisoners about what they saw but it was impossible. The prisoners simply thought it was the same old routine, someone walking by and hear someone mumbling something to someone else.
This is a summary written by Vanesa which is very good. The original story is very much understable by reading this summary. The writer understood the veiwpoint of the story and wrote a good summary based on it. But there are some grammartical mistakes that need to be focused on. For example subject verb agreement.
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