Shadows As a child we often due not think of death as something that will impact our day to day lives. Sure, information of the concept of death is present but frankly, our understanding of death is not completely developed until it actually happens to directly affect us. Similar to the cave presented in Plato’s, Allegory of the Cave, we are enclosed in our own happy, childish world where nothing matters except what who is going to be the it during a game of tag in the yard. In Plato’s, Allegory of the Cave, Socrates presents the idea of prisoners who have spent their entire lives chained up deep inside a cave. They cannot move and the only thing that they can see is the cave wall directly in front of them. There is a fire behind the prisoners