People are imprisoned from childhood in a cave. They are chained together.2. Their legs and necks are fixed. They can only see the wall in front of them.3.They can not look at each other, or themselves, or around the cave.4. Behind them is a fire.5. Between the fire and the people is a walkway and a low wall.6. People walk carrying objects.7.People can only see the shadow of the objects cast on the wall in front of them. They can hear the sounds of the people talking and echoing off the walls of the cave.8. The people believe the sounds come from the objects.9. The shadows are reality for them because they never see anything else.10.They do not realize that what they see are shadows of the objects in front of the fire.1