Full text of the story of the elephant man, the story of the elephant

There was an elephant in the room, and its massive body took up almost the entire space. It was extremely inconvenient for us to move exclusively in this room, but our subordinates still squeezed over and talked about the past and the present together. Let's talk about happy and unhappy things together.

We talked about everything, but not about this elephant, there was an elephant in the house, we all knew about it, and we didn't even forget it for a moment. It has touched us, but we have not talked about it. Suddenly one day, the elephant disappeared, and I tried my best to find it, but I didn't ask you, because we hadn't talked about elephants together.

I want to know where it is, and you'll come and tell me, and maybe someday the elephant will come back, and somebody will come in and tell me about the elephant or something, but no. And you kept walking out of the house, and I knew that one day you would get out, and then I was completely hopeless. Now I should say let's talk about this elephant!

Or should I let you out and wait for the next insider to tell me?

There are a lot of them, Cao Chong called the elephant, the blind man touched the elephant, the elephant pulled the tree, etc.

Blind man touching an elephant (a lot of people heard when I was a kid!) ）

Once upon a time, four blind men wanted to know what an elephant looked like, but they couldn't see it, so they had to touch it with their hands. The fat blind man touched the elephant's teeth first. And he said:

I see, the elephant is like a big, thick, smooth turnip. "The tall blind man touched the ears of elephants. "No, no, the elephant is obviously a big fan!

He screamed. "You are foolish, the elephant is but a great pillar. "It turned out that the short blind man had touched the elephant's leg.

But the old blind man muttered, "Alas, the elephant is so big, it is but a straw rope." The four blind men argued, saying that what they had touched was what a real elephant looked like.

And in reality? None of them were right. Later, he used the metaphor of "a blind man touching an elephant" to look at the problem and generalize.

The object of allegorical satire is the short-sighted person.

The implication of "the blind man touching the elephant" is that we should not only see a part of things, but should look at the overall situation in order to understand the full and real situation of things.

The world of a hundred years ago was very different from what it is now. Most people live in cold, humid environments without electricity. They never go to the hospital and often die miserably.

This book tells the story of a poor, ugly man. No one liked him, everyone laughed at him. People put him in a cage and exhibited him like an animal.

Until one day a doctor found him and thought he was interesting and wanted to study him. The Elephant Man became so famous that everyone wanted to visit him, and even the queen came to visit him.

Why did people avoid him at first and then approach him? After reading this book, you will understand.

Tim Wakeley is an experienced teacher and writer living in Yorkshire, in the north of England.