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Provided The Cave Analysis
In the video “The Cave” by Provided there where prisoners who sat at the bottom of a cave without any outside contact and every day they would see and hear people and animals walk on the bridge and never know what the outside world was like. One prisoner got released and saw the world for the first time and was so excited he had to go tell his friends in the cave but when he went to go tell them they didn’t know who he was or what he was saying so they never knew about the outside world. To me, the video is talking about the closed minded individual not wanting to go out of their comfort zone and do something new. The cave is their minds in there trapped in their ways of not wanting to change so when people tell them about something new they

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