Mrs. Hancock Versus Charlotte’s Mom

The Metaphor is a story all about a girl named Charlotte who is very good at writing metaphors and gets along really well with her middle school English teacher, named Mrs. Hancock. Her mom felt kind of distant to her and she didn’t like the way her mom treated her so she wrote a metaphor about her and that backfired. The teacher, Mrs. Hancock, always thought her metaphors were the best and Mrs. Hancock liked her the best out of everybody in class. When Charlotte moves on to high school she thinks that she’ll never see Mrs. Hancock ever again, but to her surprise she does. In high school the kids are more rowdy and rambunctious compared to middle school kid so Mrs. Hancock has a hard time controlling them, she doesn’t notice that Charlotte is in her class. Charlotte tried to not be noticed by Mrs. Hancock but eventually she does notice her. When she does notice her she is called into her classroom and is talked to by her, she asks her to help in class and Charlotte just shrugs her off. Mrs. Hancock decides she can’t handle the problems in class and ends up killing herself over the amount of stress. This effects Charlotte in a very sad way. She knew that teacher well and felt like she was almost her mother.

Her actual mother was quite cold and distant. Charlotte tried to get to know her but she kept being distant. She was always busy with work and couldn’t talk to Charlotte. Charlotte’s mother also didn’t like Mrs. Hancock, in fact she thought she was weird. When Charlotte need her mother around the time of Mrs. Hancock’s death she was nowhere to be found for emotional comfort. Charlotte needed someone there and ever since Mrs. Hancock died, she had no one that would help her. Her mom was not as good as Mrs. Hancock was to her and I think that Life would have been better for both Mrs. Hancock and Charlotte if Charlotte didn’t ignore Mrs. Hancock and if Mrs. Hancock didn’t kill herself then things might’ve worked out, but she did and it affected people in ways that no one thought it would. One of Charlotte’s friends made a joke about her killing herself, and she slapped him right across the face. I think that Mrs. Hancock was the better of the two and she didn’t deserve to die.