Reena’s Exploration Challenge #102

Reena is the host of Reena’s Exploration Challenges.  Reena asks us to write to this short sentence:

Public figures make us hate their enemies.

I decided to deconstruct the sentence and took each word and gave it a working definition:
Public = Out in the open
figures = icons
make = coerce
us = a particular group
hate = extreme negative feeling towards
their = someone else’s
enemies = those who wish harm

Public is what is seen in the open, which is only a small part of what is happening either within the person or in the shady dealings that aren’t common knowledge. Hidden pieces leave imbalance.

Icons are symbolic, generic representations. They are a skeleton without any flesh on it. An icon is like a logo, an ideal, but it is not the actual thing. A symbol without substance is meaningless.

To “make” or coerce another is…