In ”The Allegory of the Cave” Plato is trying to illustrate to his student Galucon how the world changes with the knowledge you gain. The story is about prisoners that has been chained in a cave since birth with no ability to turn their heads.
The more knowledge you gain, the more the world will change for you, and you will find yourself looking at things in a completely different way. In Socrates story he is using shadows to describe the world of what you know today, and when the prisoner is realized into the real whorl that represent tomorrow.
When the prisoner returns to the cave eager to tell everyone about his adventure they make fun of him and even threaten to kill him. This part of the story represent how hard it is to describe something to someone who is so rapped up in his own reality that he can not understand or vision anything that you are saying. It is hard to tell someone about the world out there when they have only seen their own backyard.
Not bad--it is interesting how you decided to interpret the metaphor in terms of time: today vs. tomorrow.
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