The story Katha Upanishad is an allegory because it turns death is something that isn't a life form or something we can't see and interact with into a character a person. Often times people take life for granite and don't realize it till they have a close encounter with death. That's when people really wake up and start double thinking stuff they do and that they might wanna change their life of living. Like they might want to do certain stuff differently.
Nachiketa symbolizes whats best by being a teen by being able to be curios because in the book Nachiketa gets 3 wishes from death and the first to wishes were like whatever too him he wanted them but his last wish was his most important. The last one was that he wanted to know what it was like after death like what happened. Death offers him money, fame, and all the things a person think what make them happy but not Nachiketa didn't want any of that stuff he was curious and stuck with his original wish which impressed death.
I think the author wanted to represent Death represent as a genie. A genie is something I'm pretty sure we all know because they can grant wishes and that is exactly what death does in this book. I think the author did that on person so we can have more a feeling and understand it more. If the author wouldn't have made a connection like this book would've been more difficult to understand because nobody has ever met death because its impossible and we just simply can't.
Katha upanishad relates to things that we should all know which makes the book easier to understand. Life is something we should all take more advantage of. We should living to the fullest without any hold backs because you only have one life. Death could come out of nowhere and just finish with you not everyday is guaranteed.
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