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In the article, “The Trouble with Medicine’s Metaphor”, Dhruv Khullar explains the pros and cons of using metaphors as a comfort method towards mostly patients diagnosed with leukemia or other diseases. He believes it can be taken both ways as being compared to a fighter makes you stronger. Or as being called a fighter relates too closely to a war where people usually don’t make it. I believe that this method would encourage others by relating their sickness to a fight and give them a sense of power and belief that they have control over whether they live or die. Possibly giving them a reason to say that its not over and they are not going stop trying. Although this might be false hope it is a way of comforting during the hardest times. This article emphasizes that metaphors can be used to give something a meaning that it never had before, whether it was to benefit or to not benefit. “Physicians who used more metaphors were seen as better communicators. Patients reported less trouble understanding them, and felt as though their doctor made sure they understood their conditions.” This explains how people use metaphors to describe something, in this case, big into something manageable. “Shakespeare gives the thing, Juliet, a name that belongs to something else, the sun” This is relating to the prompt because it gives a thing another meaning to influence the viewers into seeing it as something else. “As Schön related it later, someone in the group suddenly said: ‘A paintbrush is a kind of pump!” This is relating to the prompt because once again it is using, in a way, another language to describe something as something else.