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Why do writers use symbolism?_ Okay, so let__ say you have a headache and you wanna tell someone about it and you say, __ have a headache!_ and other people are like, __eah, whatever. Everybody gets headaches._ But your headache is not a regular headache, it__ a serious headache, so you say, __y brain is on fire!_ to try to help these people understand that this is a headache that needs attention! That__ a metaphor, right? And you use it so that you can be understood. Now let__ say you want to take those same imagistic principles but apply them to a much more complex idea than having a headache, like, for instance, the yearning that one feels for one__ dreams. And you can see the dream but you can__ cross the bay to get to the green light that embodies your dream. And you want to talk about how socio-economic class in America is a barrier _ a bay-like barrier, some would say _ that stands between you and the green light and makes that gap unbridgeable. Now, you can just talk about that stuff directly, but when you talk about it symbolically, it becomes more powerful, because instead of being abstract it becomes kind of observable_. So I think that__ why.

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Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we__e all constantly correcting each other__ grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they__e going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that__ precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.