In this course, "Thinking Process," we have learned how our interpretation and perceptions of things are shaped and that they have a lot of things to do with our use of “metaphors” through some different texts. According to “Metaphors We Live By” written by George Lakoff and Nark Johnson, metaphor is not ordinary language, rather poetic and rhetorical language, in fact, it is very familiar with our everyday lives. The concepts control what we perceive every day and their systems are mostly metaphorical reflected our perception on thinking and acting. Thus, by looking at the use of metaphors, we can learn our understanding. Furthermore, Lakoff and Johnson state that metaphorical expressions can be used for studying metaphorical concepts and nature, which are profoundly tied to cultures of people. In fact, metaphors are found in many works written by historically famous people to make their messages more effective and impressive. Good examples are The Allegory of the Sun, written by Plato (427-347), who was a Greek philosopher specialized in writing and teaching, and a manifesto called The Foundation of Seito, the Bluestocking Society, published by Hiratsuka Raicho, who was a pioneering Japanese feminist. Interestingly, even though their backgrounds and goals of the works are very different, both they use the metaphor of the “sun” to highlight the significance of reality and authenticity. To begin with, Plato claimed in The Allegory of the Cave that what we can acknowledge by the sense is no more than opinion, in other words, what we think is reality might be just a sensory illusion using two contrasting metaphorical words the “sun” and the “cave”. In order to see the truth and have real knowledge, we must see things from both inside and outside through philosophical reasoning. In the story, he describes a scene in a dark “cave” in which a group of people who have lived there since birth are fettered so that they cannot look at anywhere besides their fro