Comparison:
It felt as if I now lived in my own portable, perpetual ghost town.
Former President Barack Obama reflects on the controlled, empty, protected bubble in which he was compelled to operate as protection by the Secret Service changed his experiences of travel and life. Most of us don't take well-known places, such as ghost towns, and add concepts of being portable or perpetual. Yet, President Obama's phrase captures an important insight into his altered life experience. Quality comparisons can do that. How might you add adjectives to well-known places, or things, to create perspective? Give it a try!
Context:
[Barack Obama upon his election to President of the United States:]
Riding downtown to our temporary transition office, I realized that the empty roads that Malia had noticed on election night were the new norm. All my entries and exits in the buildings happened through loading docks and service elevators, cleared of everyone but a few security guards. It felt as if I now lived in my own portable, perpetual ghost town.
Citation:
Obama, Barack. A Promised Land. Crown, 2020. p. 208.
(Image by Lee Aigue, base image courtesy of Bing, Dec. 2024.)
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