An Understanding of Coles’s Essay Through Susan Bordo’s Terms Specific terms from Susan Bordo’s essay “Hunger is Ideology” can be used to form a better understanding of Robert Coles’s essay “Tradition: Fact and Fiction.” Representation and usable knowledge are often used by Bordo, and a correlation can also be made between the terms and sections in Coles’s essay. Although the two essay’s discuss different topics, a similarity can be found when we describe sections of Coles’s essay using Bordo’s terms. By using these terms, I personally, was able to see his essay in different ways