Allegory of the shopping mall

On the last page of the chapter titled “My Life as a Dog”, Chuck Palahnuik stops writing about his adventure in a dog costume, and begins writing a metaphor of a small child within the mall he was at. The small locked inside the mall dressed in a soldier outfit parading around alone with a single toy car. I believe that Plato’s “Allegory Of the Cave” can be directly related to Chuck Palahnuik’s metaphor.
The human within the mall is a young boy, showing innocence lack of knowledge. You do not know how long he has been trapped inside the mall; it may have been his whole life, for he is just a child. The only thing that he has been presented with is a toy car that he drives around via remote control aimlessly around the mall. It is very peculiar that Chuck Palahnuik mentions that he is stuck inside of Seattle’s first sunny day in a long time. That is because in Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” the sun shows a dim light at one end of the cave, this creating a desire to reach the sunlight and become enlightened on what is outside of the cave.
Chuck Palahniuk describes a young boy, with no other interaction except a single toy, yet a sun trapped outside of a locked mall. He has no knowledge of the outside; all he knows is the toy, and an empty mall. When he looks up to see a dog and a bear he is taken back at how out of the ordinary it is and embraces it because he hasn’t had anything like that before. In stead being like others and taking for granted all the things on the outside, he is confined yet appreciates anything different.