At the beginning of the semester, we were tasked to write a paper where we created a metaphor that best fit our viewpoint towards academic reading. In Lakoff and Johnson’s Metaphors We Live By, they state, “The concepts that govern our thought are not just matters of intellect. They also govern our everyday functioning down to the most mundane details” (Lakoff and Johnson 3). Similarly, the way we see our daily routine, no matter how colorless, we are able to compare the lifeless to something of meaning. The metaphor I crafted, “reading is a straightjacket,” was the perfect fit for my relationship with academic reading. I choose this metaphor because I view academic texts to be very restraining and forced in order to reach success in academia,
