IBurn4U

Last week, my teaching assistant Jasper led a lesson on a study skills lesson on class participation. The lesson was great. He used two short flash fiction stories (stories that have plot but don't give an abundant amount of detail in than 500 words, and leave the reader with many ideas of what the story is about).

One of the stories involved a magic trick, a bottle of wine, and flames. He was trying to help the students to make the connection of the symbolism between passion and fire or burning. To demonstrate, he said, "If I said, 'I burn for you,' what would that mean?" Which of course is a very dangerous thing to say. I was expecting someone to follow up with "It means you need to go to the clinic!" However, the response from one of the girls was much more candid and eased my fear when she yelled out, "IT MEANS YOU'RE AN ARSONIST!"

Yes, obviously, that's what it means. Why didn't I think of that?