Analysis Of Dig If You Will The Picture By Crystal Wilkinson

As a child, Prince was often bullied in school and became a recluse. As a result, he turned to music as a source of refuge and started writing some of his own music but he never considered music as a career until he saw James Brown live for the first time when he was 10-years old (GUINESS, 1989). Because of his parents’ separation in 1970, Prince moved away from his home with his mother and stepfather and went to live with his father before drifting off to live

The novel is able to share how music is of great importance and is able to affect people’s moods and thoughts.

Lloyd uses description when the sight and sounds of the sexually exploited girls’ experiences are portrayed. An example would be when she recounts the time she visited a victim of sexual exploitation in the hospital. The passage reads “Her upper lip is split completely in two; her jaw is broken, her nose as well. Most of her teeth are gone… [Two years previous] I had joked about how she looked like a tiny china doll. Now that doll had been mutilated, her delicate porcelain features smashed” (pg 113). Here Lloyd uses description to emphasize both the innocence of the child as well as the physical brutality this girl had fallen victim to. When decent descriptive methods are used, it is easier for the audience to become more sympathetic towards the events as well as the characters depicted in the piece of writing. This particular mode of the dissertation is common within memoirs, for the author wants to be able to share their experiences in an engaging way. Therefore, the use of descriptive rhetoric within Lloyd’s memoir was effective in illustrating particular details to generate the appeal of pathos, the emotion of sympathy within the

In chapter one, also known as ‘the hurting’, the author focuses on trauma that people have dealt with such as sexual abuse from a father or relative, failed relationships with parents, and difficulty with one’s self-expression. One of the poems in chapter one states that the girl’s first kiss was by the age of five and was carried out in an aggressive manner by the young boy, she assumes that he had picked that up from his father’s interactions with the mother. In the poem it says “He had the smell of starvation on his lips which he picked up from his father feasting on his mother at 4 a.m.” It is insinuated that the father uses forceful actions towards the mother during times that should be gentle and affectionate. In that specific poem she felt as if that was when she was taught that her body is only for giving to those who wanted out of satisfaction but she should feel ‘anything less than whole’. In another poem in chapter one, there is a family setting during dinner in which the father orders the mother to hush. This represents how women are constantly oppressed in their own

In the memoir A Long Way Gone, author Ishmael Beah describes his survival journey as a lost child in his country, because of the civil war in Sierra Leone, then becoming a child soldier facing war daily, afterward the process that Beah went through during rehabilitation and finally in fear escaping the civil war. Ishmael Beah emotional journey has three stages of development in which Beah utilized music. In the first stage, Beah uses music as a survival mechanism to keep sane and safe. In the second stage, begins when he loses his brother and friends, Beah reaches the lowest point with the loss of his entire family again, some friends, music, and being forced to join the war. In the final stage, is the process of rehabilitation where Beah connects with music once again. Ishmael Beah exposure to music at a young age stayed with him throughout his life. (Beah, 2007, p. 5-218)

Prince adapts her writing style to garner the attention of the audience. Prince is not trying to inform; she

At this point in the story, Jeannette is being assaulted by a boy in her neighborhood named Billy Deel. It marks her first non consensual sexual experience. She tries to cope with it by cutting him off but he hammers home the point that she was taken advantage of with a spiteful “I raped you!” Throughout the novel, she has been abused more than a few times.and it reaches to a point where it doesn’t seem to phase her anymore. Despite the stigma attached to this particular

It shows her other girls’ hatred of Andy. It provides her with hope and tells her she’s not alone. It makes her realize Andy is a predator who hurt many women before her and didn’t target her because she was stupid or because she deserved to be targeted. This feeling of freedom is evident by her thoughts of being like a bird (Andersen 186) as she escapes from a large

Rape is beyond dispute one of the most explicit events that can occur to a person in order to harm them on a physiological, emotional and even physical level. The violation here is subverted into a domination of the “poor rapist”. However the heroine encounters a violation on a physical level, which becomes obvious, when she states:” I was inexperienced at dog-fashion fucking and had probably torn the skin of my cunt a little.” (70) There is physical pain as a result of the violation, but the way the heroine reacts and wipes the pain away by marginalizing (“a little”) the injury makes it less harmful and consuming. At first it seems, that the rape has no quality for her as the source for shame. But on the same page she also describes the way Toni and her interacted right after the rape had taken place: “Tomi glanced at me quizzically once or twice, but I managed to avoid her eyes”. This sentence is easily overlooked because she had taken everything that happened beforehand so lightly, but here there is a moment of judging a moment of trying to avoid shame. He avoids her eyes, because she

When the mind is in a fragile or unstable state, music can aid the healing and strengthening processes. In the book A Long Way Gone, Ishmael emphasizes the power of music by explaining the severity of the traumatic events he encountered and how music helped him overcome that. Doing so promotes the idea of “music therapy” and how it can aid mental health. This novel provides evidence that music can not only lift our spirits when we are sad or energize us to push through a tough workout, but continues to affect our mentality which is something that will never wear off and we will never

The personal Narrative “Music Tonight” by Stephen Policoff is unusual because it is all about the daughter, but written from the father’s perspective. I was at first confused as to who the transformation would happen to, and it seems that both the father and daughter experience transformations within the piece, but because it is told from the father’s point of view we will focus on him being the character. At first, this story made me feel somber because I was sympathizing with the daughter, however after reading the entire story I realized that this story is not meant to be morose but rather to celebrate the joyous effect that music has on Anna. Simply because she was diagnosed with a neurological degenerative disease I was beginning to

It tells the story from the perspective of a young girl, who continuously gets scolded by her mother for going against social norms by writing. She continues to write despite the rebuke she receives from her mother because she hears the voices of the women who lived before her pleading her to continue writing. The girl explains that while most of her female family members experienced rape, they did not feel shame instead “They were singing, searching for meaning in the dust. And sometimes, they were talking to faces across the ages, faces like yours and mine.” (page 194). The reason these women did not feel shame was because they understood that while this act was horrible they needed to continue on with life in order to establish hope for the future generations that come after them. The reader gets to understand that life is cruel, but it is sometimes for the better. It also addresses this at the end of the epilogue when the girl’s mother has finished braiding her hair “..ask you to name each braid after those nine hundred and ninety-nine women who were boiling in your blood, and since you had written them down and memorized them, the name would come rolling off your tongue. And this was your testament to the way that these women lived and died and lived again.” (page 196) This shows the ultimate reward the people

Music’s power is usually described as being able to instill an emotion in its listeners. But music comes to mean even more in The Power of One. It represents someone’s spirit - Doc’s. The music he creates is a metonym for his thoughts and inner spirit. Music, especially Doc’s piano, is a physical representation of his life and spirit, revealing music to be the force that Doc uses to communicate and connect with the rest of the world.

In the first third of her book she describes what seems to be a never ending cycle of events meant to destroy her. At age 11, she enters a life characterized by prostitution, abuse, drugs, alcohol and gang activities. The author did a superb job of reiterating how young she was throughout this section of her memoir, signifying her immaturity. Her experiences made her physically mature, however, her way of thinking and processing the world around her was tainted. As a young girl this prevented appropriate judgement on her part because she did not have the proper guidance or knowledge to want better for herself. This sets up an

. During the 1980s, the way Americans perceived homosexuality, race, and violence was challenged. In response, Prince’s eccentric and extravagant music style and attire dismantled conventional gender barriers of what it meant to be masculine and feminine in American society. Therefore, his musical creations set an example by pushing the limits of authenticity and self-expression. Prince’s fearless dedication to breaking down conventional expectations of style, music, gender norms, and conformity can be seen in his vocals, instrument choice, and lyrics. In the late 1980s, Prince was a music icon who blended funk, soul, pop, and hip-hop and presented his work in an androgyny atmosphere to advocate for racial and gender equality. His musical creations and appearance had disrupted the societal confines that fenced in the minority groups and pushed the limits of what it meant to be a black man. Prince’s distinct attire, extravagant performances, and persona helped contribute to a new music era of funk-rock and challenged the taboo concepts of the 1980’s. Prince’s musical work impacted society by encouraging wildly free and creative behavior during a time where it was not acceptable to be who you were. In this paper, I will analyze the auditory significance of two of Prince’s songs: “If I was your girlfriend” (1987) and “I Would Die 4 U” (1984). Analysis for both songs were based on music videos and a scene from Prince’s film, Purple Rain. In addition to these songs, Prince’s