Extended Metaphor Of Good Pies

Have you ever thought about how the story of a pie is similar to the story of a person? In the poem “Perfect for any Occasion,” Alberto Ríos explores the idea that there are fortunate and unfortunate people in the world using an extended metaphor of good pies and bad pies. The fortunate people don 't need to work hard for luxuries and attention. However, there are the unfortunate people who had to put up a fight for what the fortunate people have, but no fortune or attention ever came of it. In his poem, Ríos discretely and creatively makes the argument that there are good and bad pies, like there are privileged and disadvantaged people who are placed in their respective situations. Rios depicts fortunate people a good pie. The metaphor of

On the other hand, there are bad pies. Rios uses the metaphor of a bad pie to depict an underprivileged person who had to work hard growing up. “But then there are the other pies. / The leftover pies. The ones / Nobody chooses at Thanksgiving”(21-23) The bad pies who are the ones that were baked by inexperienced bakers and poor ingredients. Underprivileged people are born from families with less support. These people might not live in a good neighborhood and go to a school with limited funding for education. Because of this, at a young age, kids would have to work many jobs to help support their families, and on top of that, work hard to get good grades to go to any college, even a community college. “That’s never the end of the story, of course. / Some pies make a break for it—...Trying to be sweet pizzas, if they’re lucky. / But no good comes of it. Nobody is fooled”(33-38). Some people can find a way to get through troubles, but in the end they still have, in the back of their mind, their story of growing up in a rough situation and that sticks with them for their whole

I grew up in a nice neighborhood, I go to a private school, and I have luxuries too. Fortunately, I was raised in an environment where I don’t have to work to support my family or pray that one day I can go to college because I am lucky to be able to afford it. However, Pies go bad if they sit out for too long. There are many people who grow up a good pie and throw their life away because they never go to college and live off their parents, or they turn to drugs and alcohol to solve their internal problems. On the flip side, tastebuds change, and what once tasted bad, can eventually taste good. There are some people who pick themselves up and work hard to get out of their bad pie life and make a good life for themselves. These people start small, and work there way up until they turn their bad pie into a good pie. This occurs from education, hard work, determination, and the right mindset. One thing I took out of this poem was that people like me, good pies, should appreciate their lives because not all pies are good pies, and bad pies don 't have it so easy. Equally important, good pies need to have a drive and determination to succeed so they don 't turn into bad pies.

In “Perfect for any Occasion”, Rios descriptively makes the argument privileged people are like good pies, and underprivileged people are like bad pies. It is important to understand the difference because people who are