Question #3: How is X like Y? Or how is X different from Y? Everything in the world is like everything else. Everything in the world is also different from everything else. Consider how something is like or different from something else, and you are entering the deep world of metaphor. Metaphors matter because they are how we understand and communicate ideas to one another. When we think carefully about how characters, places, or events in the books we read are similar or different from others, we practice the art of thinking in metaphor.
