Metaphor For History

The box is a metaphor for history. Inside this black paper-covered box was what sounded like many small objects. Like the box, we know that there is more to history, past what we can see. Although we know what the box looks like now, we don’t know anything for sure about what is on the inside. We can’t see what is inside the box, but we can infer based on the information we have gathered. In the instance of the box, some of our observations were that we can hear the items sliding around inside, they don’t roll so they most likely aren’t round, and they make clinking noises when they collide. There is definitely more to it but we’ll never be able to find out exactly what’s inside. In history, we have letters, pictures, and artifacts. Since
we live in the present, we can never really be one hundred percent sure of what happened in the past, even if we do have documentations and other sources of information left by the people before us. In conclusion, the box represents history as we see it now; we view and study it from the outside.