I Will Follow You Into The Dark, By Death Cab For Cutie

My story has a meaningful story behind it. The story is deep for me and even for the artist and probably for many other people. Hearing songs like this can inspire you. It inspired me to be thankful for the people in my life. One day they can be here the next they could be gone. You never know what’s going on in their lives.

The book Last Man Out by Mike Lupica the boy in the book (Tommy) has many memory moments/flashbacks about his dad, the memory shows us about the conflict he has with his father and having to deal with him being gone.

The quote "Character is what you are in the dark" - Dwight Lyman Moody has a few meanings. Mostly it means that you're different when you're alone. When you're around people they are influences of some sort. If you get into a situation when you're with people you might react differently than if you were alone, resulting in a different outcome. A lot of the time people aren't their true self around friends, or family, or whoever it may be for many reasons. A big reason is they don't want to be judged. Maybe they wanna look "cool" or get popular for something. Maybe they think they'll be looked at differently for being who they truly are. So basically fear of what others think keeps us from being who we really are. Fear can make us act different,

Under the lights by Abbie Glines. There are three teens that grew up together in a southern small town. Willa’s mom had her when she was a teenager. Willa had gotten into some trouble at a young age and had to stay with her Nonna. Willa’s two best friends were Gunner and Brady. Willa has made some bad choices in her past life which made her go down the wrong path in life. Brady’s a high school quarter back now and with the choices Willa has made Brady sees Willa as a different person. Gunner is also a football star in high school. Gunner is living a good rich life the only matter though he cares about himself only, except for Willa. He understands the person she has grown into over her time. As they were known to be child hood friends secrets start to come out and the truth may be the reason of them losing each other.

Today many people feel compelled to buy anything or everything with an expensive price tag. This includes Expensive designer clothes, latest gadgets, expensive vehicles and many other similar things. This form of consumerism has embedded itself in today’s society; where it's encouraged to invest in such materialistic possessions. Kanye West is an African-American rapper, producer, and entrepreneur, who articulates his struggle with consumerism and the struggle for those around him in his song “All Falls Down.” West, utilizes puns, rhyme, and juxtaposition to highlight the issues surrounding materialism that can be interpreted differently by different listeners such as African Americans and White Americans.

Just 6 months after the release of their debut album, Black Sabbath's Paranoid was the first single released from that album. According to Geezer Butler (Black Sabbath's bassists) in a March 2004 article in Guitar World magazine, he said that their first album Black Sabbath and a good portion of the "Paranoid" album were written in the same time period and it only took 2 to 3 days to complete the whole album live in studio. Believe it or not "Paranoid" the song was just supposed to be a 3 minute filler song for the album. It was basically an afterthought and Tony did the rift. They lyrics were done my Geezer and Ozzy read and sung them at the same time.

Let the Water Hold Me Down by Michel Spurgeon is written in a very unique and skillful way of the realities of being of human, and dealing with loss and grief, guilt and longing, loyalty and love. These psychopathologies affect the readers and present a different way of seeing the text. By applying critical theory to this novel, not only the reader but the main character, Hank Singer, gets a different perspective, a new lens after making several changes in his life. Critical theory helps individuals observe from an unusual angle and learn things in new ways, different from his or her typical way of viewing things. It opens up new lenses, and through this new lens, it can lead to new understanding or unfortunately, make things harder to understand. "Knowledge is what constitutes our relationship to our world, for it is the lens through which we view our world"Tyson states if the lens is changed, the view and the viewer may be changed as well.

In the song it says, “When I jumped out on that road, I got no love, no love you'd call real, Ain't got nobody waiting at home, Runnin' with the devil” (Roth 9-12). In the story Connie knows that once she steps outside her house with Arnold there is no turning back, she is now on the dark side. Arnold tries to convince Connie to go with him by saying, “I’ll have my arms tight around you so you won’t need to try and get away and I’ll show you what love is like” (Oates 325). Once Connie does leave with him she notices the vast amount of land behind him that she had never seen before. This represents the unknown in her life that comes with running away with Arnold. Connie knows that now he is in her house, she thought “I’m not going to see my mother again” (Oates 325). If she leaves she won’t have her family anymore and this song relates to that because it says, “Ain’t got nobody waiting at

     William Stafford’s "Traveling through the dark" is beautifully written poem that expresses one of life’s most challenging aspects. It is the story of a man’s solitary struggle to deal with a tragic event that he encounters.

In his book “Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free,” Hector Tobar recounts the story of 33 miners who spent 69 days trapped more than 2000 feet underground in the Chile’s San Jose mines following the collapse of the mine in 2010. According to Tobar (2015), the disaster began on a day shift around noon when miners working deep inside the mountain excavating minerals started feeling vibrations. A sudden massive explosion then followed and the passageways of the mines filled with dust clouds. Upon settling of the dust, the men discovered that the source of the explosion was a single stone that had broken off from the rest of the mountain and caused a chain reaction leading to

Live your life to its fullest, if I had to mention one thing I learned from Mary Oliver 's beautiful poem, "When Death Comes", that would be it. Specifically not letting time pass you by, or letting things like anxiety or anger control your life. The comparisons to death also help with understanding the magnitude of our mortality, and the importance of not taking each and every day for granted. With many fitting and unique metaphors I found it easy to be engaged with the poem. This leads also to a lot of relevant and surprising imagery, employing a more detailed vantage point for the reader. In "When Death Comes", Mary Oliver uses persona, metaphor, and imagery to speak not only of death, but more specifically living life to its fullest before death.

In Owning Your Own Shadow Robert Johnson best defines shadow as our rejected and unacceptable character being collected in the dark corner of our self for too long that they start to take a life on their own (4). Johnson argues, "The shadow is the part of us we fail to see or know," (4). What I think he means by this is that the shadow can be an outlook for the unlived life caused by a specific pattern of life decisions. I strongly agree because a lot of times we deny the realities and are unable to face the truths. The way Johnson explains shadow is not the way I understood shadow before rather just understanding that a shape is created by a body coming

Lastly, Chapman illustrates that even though a journey may not have given you what you thought it would, it will often bring newfound maturity, sense of reality and greater understanding of life. Throughout the whole song, the persona is shown as being very determined, and

The six characteristics of literary journalism that we discussed in class are all used to help the writer communicate with the audience in a more effective manner. Although literary journalism is a form of nonfiction writing, the audience has not necessarily experienced what the writer is talking about, or if they have, they could feel differently about the subject. Therefore, it is extremely important for the writer to use well thought-out techniques that will help the audience step into their shoes and understand their point of view. The piece of literary journalism my partner and I chose to focus on, which was “It Will Look Like a Sunset” by Kelly Sundberg, did an exceptional job of communicating to the reader the true feelings of a domestic

Artists all around the world use music as an escape from reality and as a way to express how they are feeling. In the book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, the feelings of love, heartbreak,and disaster are expressed the clearest. There is an immense amount of artists in the world who sing about those same three emotions. The songs of these artists can relate perfectly to the themes, conflicts, and scenes in Pride and Prejudice. The five songs that best relate to this book are The Scientist by Coldplay, I Believe in You by Michael Buble, Billionaire by Bruno Mars, Knock you Down by Keri Hilson and lastly Girls just wanna have fun by Cyndi Lauper. These five songs would be the perfect fit for a Pride and Prejudice music album.