Metamorphing

“In our entertainment-crazed times, we have to take care not to use stories that have been transformed into something else. I call the process ‘metaphor-morphing,’ or ‘metamorphing’ for short. In this process the basic metaphors of story built into the world by God are reversed. For example, the serpent in the Garden was a dragon, and it is not a coincidence that many modern stories are trying to reverse things and make the dragon out to be some kind of misunderstood soul. Always keep your eye on the dragon. This problem of metamorphing is why VeggieTales are so objectionabale. King David was not a turnip, or whatever it is they have him as. The loss sustained by Christian kids who are told this stuff is incalculable. If kids learn more about the meaning of true kingship from Aragorn than they do from a story about Solomon, something is seriously distorted” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 155).