how do i write a story using a analogy?

Answer 1

It's all about comparison and upper level thinking.

Just think of something you know well: cars, or cats, or dogs...it doesn't matter what it is. Then make a comparison to something else. Is a person you know like a dog? Like a cat? Is repairing a broken heart like fixing a car with a broken engine? Is raising a flower just like raising a child?

Just break the source into steps or details, and then take each step (or detail) and compare it to analagous points in your target. Discard what does not fit, or adapt it to your needs. The association between the two dissimilar things will develop a correlation. We can see it because that is how our minds work, and it is how we learn, in layers of cognitive processes, shared abstractions, and conceptual metaphor.

Once you have the core comparison, making it into a story is a simple step of walking your character through a simple conflict to a conclusion. What kind of things could this be? Think about going swimming with a friend (who is like a cat) who won't get wet, ending with that friend getting splashed; studying for a test with someone who studies like a hunter or fisherman. Really, there's no limit to possible comparisions.

And you don't need to limit the analogies--I mean, your characters as well as your content and story line can reflect analogies as well.

Answer 2

You could write a fable, where the characters resemble real people that you might have heard of before. Like if you wanted to write about how cheaters make things hard for students who actually study. You could say there was once an ant hill full of ants trying to store food for the winter, and every ant had his own assignment. But some ants decided they didn't want to do their assignment, so they hid and started eating the food of the other ants. When the other ants had been working hard and were all done, they came back to the ant hill and wondered why some of their food was missing, and why the ants who had hid to eat the food that wasn't there hadn't worked like they should have. So the worker ants got mad at the lazy ants, and said they ought to work extra hard to help get the supply of winter food in, and wouldn't let them eat until they went out and worked on their own for a while. That is an analogy of what might go on in a school with students who haven't learned that it is wrong to cheat, and everyone has to work on their own winter food supply (knowledge from studying and learning). Hope that helps.