High School is hell.

            This article hits every detail about the metaphors in Buffy that I could imagine. Honestly, who didn’t occasionally refer to their high school as a hell hole, even if you did like your high school. I can see how the show takes the drama and troubles of high school and blows them up, to show how big of a deal they can be in a high school student’s mind. Making the cheerleading squad, may appear like something near worth killing in the distorted mind of a high school student. This article describes that the show uses metaphors to show how everything in high school is blown way out of proportion. However, I think there is also a part of the show that appears to be very real, the fear of a school shooting and suicide. These two things have sadly become a reality. I think the show is depicting how crazy it is that students have to worry about issues such as school shootings now by putting it in the same contexts as monsters and poison lunch food. In that respect I think this show is actually putting things into proper perspective by using these metaphors.