Final Draft

The Shattered Egg

Throughout history, eggs have served many functions such as a source of food for humans and other species that consume them, fertilizer for farmers’ crops, and the protection of embryos within their hard shell. In metaphorical terms, an egg can be considered a facade. An egg is much more precious and fragile compared to life than it looks.

Its outer shell, elliptical in form, comes in various shades of brown, white, or blue, depending on the bird that laid them. It holds on to each piece of itself desperately to keep the growth of a new  life safe for the whole trip until it fulfills its purpose of creating more of itself. Its shell, so simple to crack, break, shatter just by being held onto too strongly. It’s sort of tragic how easy the cycle of an egg can be destroyed and unfixable. But even so over time, the physical construct of the egg has not changed itself, staying in its thin and brittle state for years upon years. And then you look at the inside of the egg, a thick, transparent slime covering the center of the egg called an albumen. It holds the yolk like a nice bed for the yolk to lay on. For what it’s worth the albumen may be stronger than the shell, as although liquid, it stays intact unless it is forced out of its natural state. Lastly, the core is reached, the yolk. Its center, always protected, is as easy to pop as a balloon. Its consistency that of water is honestly the most fragile component of the entire egg, and somehow the most important. It is the first step to the creation of the egg and is along the growing portion of the chicken until it is born, or until the unfertilized egg is cracked into a sizzling pan, soon to become someone’s 8 AM breakfast.

To conclude, an egg itself is simply another cycle of life, and no matter how strong or fragile it is depicted as, will eventually return to the earth, to restart its cycle of giving to the world.

First Draft

An egg itself has been used as many things , a source of food for the people that have access to them, fertilizer for the plant life to encourage growth and new life, to continue the cycle of need and use of eggs. However, an egg is a clear display of a facade. Its outer shell, round in shape, is plain and white but hard and strong to try to keep itself together. It holds on to each piece of itself desperately to keep the growth of a new  life safe for the whole trip until it fulfills its purpose of creating more of itself. Its shell, so simple to crack, break, shatter just by being held onto too strongly. It’s sort of tragic how easy the cycle of an egg can be destroyed and unfixable. But even so over time, the physical construct of the egg has not changed itself, staying in its thin and brittle state for years upon years. And then you look at the inside of the egg, a thick, transparent slime covering the center of the egg called an albumen. It holds the yolk like a nice bed for the yolk to lay on. For what it’s worth the albumen may be stronger than the shell, as although liquid, it stays intact unless it is forced out of its natural state. Lastly, the core is reached, the yolk. Its center, always protected, is as easy to pop as a balloon. Its consistency that of water is honestly the most fragile component of the entire egg, and somehow the most important. It is the first step to the creation of the egg and is along the growing portion of the chicken until it is born, or until the unfertilized egg is cracked into a sizzling pan, soon to become someone’s 8 AM breakfast.