Explain the various stages of hardship faced by the foot after being confined in a shoe
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As the child learns to walk and starts walking on stones, bits of glass, streets, ladders and the rough surface of the earth, the child’s foot becomes aware of its role. It learns that it is a foot and cannot become a butterfly or a bulging fruit on a tree. Once it realizes that it is a foot, it is defeated in realizing its aspirations and gets imprisoned in a shoe. Inside the shoe, it tries to understand the world in its own way, alone, like a blind man groping in the dark. During this period its soft nails of quartz become opaque, are bunched together, and look like eyeless reptiles with triangular heads, grow callused and are covered with faint volcanoes of death. These changes happen because, once the child’s foot becomes an adult’s foot, it walks as the foot of a man or woman and keeps walking in the fields as a farmer, or as a grocer in the markets, or as a miner in the mines or as a church minister or a government worker, until its death. Thus, the foot experiences the hardships of life and loses its ‘soft’ and flowery petal-like form.