A long stretch

Many things can be compared to each other. Some are compared by metaphors. In John Fiske's "Shopping for Pleasure: Malls, Power, and Resistance," he makes a long stretch using a metaphor to compare shopping malls with Catholic cathedrals. When he gets in to the story he explains how teenagers and the youth just use the mall as a place to hang out and to get drunk. WHenever I went to the mall I did not see this going on. Yeah there are alot of teenagfers and youth just walking around the mall looking and not buying much, but that is because many of them do not have the money to. I am sure that if the circumstances were different and they had money that the things that they look at that they might buy. I think that the mall is a perfectly acceptable place for teenagers to go to and to get out of the house just to hang out. To me there is no comparison from a mall to a cathedral.