Oh my goodness, you've got a story here already! All you need to do is relate which cell part provides which function in terms of the city part and what it does. For example, the town hall, which has the instructions for making the widgets, would be the nucleus of...
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Oh my goodness, you've got a story here already! All you need to do is relate which cell part provides which function in terms of the city part and what it does. For example, the town hall, which has the instructions for making the widgets, would be the nucleus of the cell, which houses the DNA, which contains all the instructions necessary for everything about the cell. The "small shops" that build everything required by the city sound remarkably like ribosomes, the sites in cells responsible for protein construction. The small carts the widgets are placed on for transport would be the vesicles that are pinched off the Golgi complex, which wraps and prepares substances for transport to other parts of the cell. The "fence" around the city sounds like the cell membrane, which keeps the good stuff in and the bad stuff out, and is very selctive about what it lets in and out of the cell. If you want to relate the story to a school or movie theater, simply adjust the setting to that locale, think of the various parts of the school/movie theater that would apply to each of those cell parts.
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