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This is a 5 page paper discussing the use of metaphors in Ruiz’s essay “Oranges and Sweet Sister Boy”. Judy Ruiz’s 1988 essay “Oranges and Sweet Sister Boy” tells of the experience and feelings a woman has when her brother informs her that he is having a sex change operation and will now be her “sister”. In an effort to grasp this realization, the narrator tells the story of her and her brother through a series of flash backs which seem to help clarify for her that her brother’s decision is his own and he seems to be happy with it. Another method the narrator uses to clarify the situation for herself is her use of metaphors, the most prominent being the orange, which symbolize aspects of life and how well life in lived. In addition to the orange metaphors, the narrator also uses other fruit and food metaphors to describe personalities, as well as sexual metaphors, clothing metaphors and lingo used within the mental health system.
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woman has when her brother informs her that he is having a sex change operation and will now be her "sister". In an effort to grasp this realization, the narrator
tells the story of her and her brother through a series of flash backs which seem to help clarify for her that her brothers decision is his own and he
seems to be happy with it. Another method the narrator uses to clarify the situation for herself is her use of metaphors, the most prominent being the orange, which symbolize
aspects of life and how well life in lived. In addition to the orange metaphors, the narrator also uses other fruit and food metaphors to describe personalities, as well as
sexual metaphors, clothing metaphors and lingo used within the mental health system. The dominant metaphor in the essay in the orange. The narrator tells of a time when "I took
ten sacks of oranges into a school so that I could teach metaphor" as "I had planned to have them peel the oranges as I spoke about how much the
world is like an orange" (Ruiz, 1988). This basic metaphor refers to how the world, life and humans are "like an orange" as they are held together by a tough
yet durable external shell which can be peeled away to reveal the different sections. While the sections are all different they too are separated by membranes yet share a common
juice; similar to the continents of the world, or the lives and relationships of humans. What surprised the narrator however was that when she gave the oranges to the classroom
of students who were socially or intellectually impaired, "they were enchanted with the gift" and they managed to make "the leap of mind the metaphor attempts" (Ruiz, 1988). Oranges, like
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