“A violin in a dark barrack where the dead were piled on top of the living? Who was this madman who played the violin here, at the edge of his own grave? Never before had I heard such a beautiful sound. In such silence. All I could hear was the violin, and it was as if Juliek’s soul had become his bow.”
The video I watched was, "Emmanuel Jal: The music of a war child". The artist is Emmanuel Jal and he was a child soldier in Sudan and has since been rescued and became an international hip-hop star and activist for children in war zones. Jal uses lyrical poetry and music to tell his life stories instead of vocally for it's to hard for him any other way. He uses his song "Forced to Sin" as a poem for the audience and it's about when he became a child soldier and during a journey was tempted to eat his friend because he had no food . Music was also a form of therapy for him and he believes that, "music is the only thing that has the power to enter your cell system, your mind, your heart, influence your soul and your spirit, and can even influence
The author shows that Isabel is very musical. She especially shows this with her thoughts. She relates everything to her music; she is always thinking about her culture and she lives the journey like it’s a song. She sees everything that happens on her journey as music. When they were bailing water out of their boat she said “It sounded like a conga solo as the rain drummed against the sides of the metal boat”.
Composers have the ability to influence how we the audience views and responds to characters and issues. Through viewing and analysing ‘The Shoe Horn Sonata’ by John Misto and ‘Saving Private Ryan’ directed by Steven Spielberg, it is obvious that composers have the ability to impact and influence our views on characters and issues that occur. Shoe Horn Sonata and Saving Private Ryan were set in the same context of World War 2. John Misto’s Shoe Horn Sonata takes place during the war against Japan, the play focus on the lives of two women Bridie and Sheila who have been captured by the Japanese to become (POW) prisoners of war. John Misto’s play was based on real accounts from POWs, the play was to commemorate the female POWS who story was unheard of and to give an insight to the audience into what the POWs had to endure while under the japanese rule.
“The Cellist of Sarajevo”, by Steven Galloway, depicts the lives of three citizens in a besieged city. Based on an interview with the author, Galloway hopes readers will glean two main themes, one of which is, “One is to understand what happens to the world and us as individuals when we abdicate responsibility for who we hate. ”(1) Through this theme the author shows how people in power are able to easily influence others during times of oppression to not only benefit themselves, but also enforce hate of the enemy, as shown by character conflicts within themselves or the world and the war.
The Preservation of Identity Through Commitment (37. The human need to make a commitment or renounce a course of action) The concept of making a commitment can mean a variety of things to different people and under different circumstances. To the character Arrow in Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo, making a commitment means retrieving her identity and protecting what is left of it at all costs.
Judith Ortiz Cofer remembers one significant moment where her life was changed and who changed it. In “My Rosetta” the author Judith Ortiz Cofer discusses Sister Rosetta and how she changed her life the moment that she played music by Ravi Shankar during a confirmation class for the Catholic church. Cofer at the time was only fourteen and was wanting to rebel and change her life somehow this music did that for her. The author expresses the dominant impression with her use of hearing and sight in the fourth paragraph. In the fourth paragraph, the mood is admiring.
An individual’s response to the drastic changes in their life reveals a lot about their character. In Steven Galloway’s novel, The Cellist of Sarajevo, the author follows the lives of three distinct characters affected by the siege on their beloved city. In the face of such compelling and often violent circumstances, the character Arrow learns to adapt her behaviour and attitude to fit her stark surroundings. While working as a sniper, Arrow faces a moral conflict as she tries to resolve her motivations for fighting back. Much like Sarajevo itself, Arrow experience the deterioration of her principles and morals.
Nathaniel immediately goes about assembling the cello, stationing the bridge just so and carefully drawing the strings up over it’s virgin bones. ”(Lopez 34). Ever since he was a young boy, Nathaniel took music seriously, practicing day in and day out. Growing into adulthood, his talents grew even bigger,
In Sherman Alexie’s short story, “War Dances,” the narrator unravels in thoughts and takes us through events in his life. He picks up by speaking about a cockroach that ends up dying in his Kafka baggage from a trip to Los Angeles. The cockroach still appears many times throughout the story. The narrator spends quality time in the hospital with his father, who is recovering from surgery due to diabetes and alcoholism, all along the way while he, himself, discovers he might have a brain tumor, leading his right ear to talk about his father. Using a style of tragedy and care both incorporate together a symbolic story that would make even a plain reader feel touched, leading to the major occurrence of a theme of the importance of family.
When one’s life is plagued with dificulties they are forced to carry the burden of extra worries and struggles. In The Cellist Of Sarajevo the bottles of water that Kenan must carry symbolize the weight of all the problems brought upon them due to the war. they have been stripped of their ability to retrieve their basic needs such as fresh water. The water jugs that Kenan struggles to carry across the city show how the citizens have to think about a multuide of problems they are faced with everyday. They are forced to continuosly carry around the weight of this constant worry.
Though he temporarily acts and thinks selfishly, after hearing the cellist’s music, he regains hope and with it the identity he had before the
The trauma and drama left by the slaves haunts this family still to this day. The heirloom that has caused so much grief for the family is a piano. Their ancestor craved their faces into the piano for their slave master’s wife. The piano is the center of all this family’s emotional and physical stress. According to the family’s superstition keeping the piano with the slave owners relatives would keep them in bondage.
In Katherine Applegate’s book, The One and Only Ivan, Applegate uses characterization, setting, and plot to create a compelling story with a powerful message of friendship that empowers hope. Applegate employs the literary device of characterization to illustrate the strong themes of friendships that inspire hope. Ivan, the narrator, is a wise, funny,
Music is a key part of culture that is found across the world and throughout history. However, music can hold different meanings depending on the context. Picasso’s Girl with a Mandolin and Titian’s The Pastoral Concert are both paintings that depict the playing of music, but there are key differences despite their similarities. Both use perspective as a way of demonstrating the scene’s mood.
