• “My Cave” 
The Cave in Plato’s allegory is the place where people are prisoners of ignorance and darkness. What is your your own personal cave? What do you need to be liberated from? What holds you in darkness or ignorance? Have you had an experience of being liberated from a particular cave? (Examples: racism, fear, some kind of addiction, hatred, selfishness --these things come to mind-there are many more options). Consider how you might be released from this cave. 

	In my life, my own personal cave would have to be laziness.  I feel that because I tend to be lazy sometimes, I really can't live up to my potential and therefore fail or lose track of somethings.  This cave is a really comfortable cave, but that is not always the best thing.  I mean it's really easy to be lazy, but a lot harder to do work.  I chose the easy route and try to get out of working hard.  Choosing to be lazy can also be a very selfish action because when I am lazy with school work, I often times feel like I am wasting my parents money.  This can be one of the things that motivates me as well.  One experience that I had this past school year was in English class.  Throughout my high school career, I have gotten C's in english.  I really just stopped trying in english class because it was too hard.  Then in the 4th quarter of sophomore year, I made an effort to get a B in english. I did it and was so proud of myself.  Getting a B in english was what liberated me from my "cave" of laziness.  I need to work on setting goals in all my classes like I did in english so that I can live up to my full potential as a good student