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* Bill Denbrough, one of the primary protagonists in Stephen King's [[IT]], addresses this ("can't you guys just let a story be a ''story?''") Being laughed at by his incredulous writing course instructor, said protagonist leaves the university to become a successful horror novelist.
* The original ''[[Winnie the Pooh|Winnie-the-Pooh]]'' novels have dozens of serious or semi-serious works written about them such as ''The Tao of Pooh'' or ''Pooh and the Philosophers.'' Usually these are written with a tongue-in-cheek attitude, though, so they can often be quite entertaining (the Disney version does not get the same treatment; if these books mention it at all, it's usually in degradatory terms).
* There are pieces of literature that are standard reading for all IB students, including: ''[[Macbeth]]'', ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', ''[[Taming Of The Shrew]]'', ''[[Othello]]'', ''[[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]'', ''[[An American Childhood]]'', ''[[Things Fall Apart]]'', ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'', ''[[Oedipus]]'', ''[[Antigone]]'', ''[[The Bluest Eye]]'', ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'', ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'', you name it. If we've read it, we analyzed every last sentence to death. This also includes ''[[Maus]]'' and ''[[The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian]]'', which are, after all, comic books. International Baccalaureate English students are practically parodies of this trope, taken to over the top ways. For example, see [https://web.archive.org/web/20120412055745/http://intensecogitation.info/2010/06/11/the-keats-enigma/ this] analysis of Keats.
* Salvador Plascencia made a complaint in one interview about how people were trying to find a metaphor in ''everything'' mentioned in ''[[The People Of Paper]]'': "These mechanical turtles are really mechanical turtles; they are not a symbol. People ask me, "Were they Volkswagen bugs?" I'm like, "No! They're mechanical turtles." They're looking for the metaphor." Though considering how he admits in the same interview that even ''he'' [[Mind Screw|gets confused about his confused book]] and that said book features [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|a blatant Jesus parallel]] in {{spoiler|the resurrection of Little Merced}}, you probably can't blame said readers for thinking that the mechanical turtles symbolize something deep.
* ''[[The Old Man and the Sea]]'': GOOD GOD! this one's been analyzed to '' '''beyond''' '' death. Mr. Hemingway said it was just about a dude and a fish.
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