My Creation Of A Soundtrack For Octavia E. Butler 's Parable Of The Sower

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

In the book “A Long Way Gone” music plays a role as a healer and a saviour.

A multitude of people nowadays choose their favorite songs because of how they sound and the attractiveness of the singer. However, some people select their favorite songs because of its appeal by relating to their personalities and feelings. Just as songs can relate to people, they can express countless similarities with stories as well. When it comes to the story, The Diary of Anne Frank, there are a variety of characters and events that songs can relate to. The songs “Chocolate Rain”, “The Last Goodbye”, and “Lost Cities”, verbalize numerous commonalities with The Diary of Anne Frank.

The title “Guinevere” is repeated throughout the entire song (title, 3.15-16, 5.26-27, 7.34-35, 8.36-37). The word Guinevere is an allusion to a person in history who(…..) This proves that this theme is present throughout history and can be related to in reality. Another repeated line states “For as much as she stumbled she’s runnin’” (3.11, 5.22, 6.28, 7.30). This is repeated four times and is important because her getting hurt made her stumble in life, but she chose to pick herself back up and try to move on from what happened. Unfortunately, the past has significantly altered her perspective on the world and she had built up barriers when she picked herself back up. Another repeated line is, “For as much as she runs she's still here” (3.12, 5.23, 6.29, 7.31). This is repeated four times and it is significant because it explains that she tries to run from her past, but she is always running and can not seem to get away. She has walls built because she can not escape the memories of her past and it is her view on people of the present. Another line repeated, “To make the damage of her days disappear” (3.14, 5.25, 7.34). This proves that she wants her past to not to affect the ways she sees the people around her, but she has not found a way to make that happen yet. The speaker though is willing to try to be that one person who tries to break down her walls and get her to trust them. Overall, the phrases repeated help convey the author's message by helping the listener to understand the speaker’s views of the

Soundtracks to films often strive to represent the themes and feeling of the film, and direct the audience towards particular emotions. A good soundtrack not only allows for the listener to understand the film better, but it should also bring to mind particular scenes, images, or characters. Soundtracks for books can do the same. In my creation of a soundtrack for Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, I strove to encompass Lauren’s journey throughout the novel and the various emotions that she experiences. Since Lauren is reflecting on her experiences, her journey becomes central to how the audience feels and experiences the emotional aspects of the book. The songs not only represent Lauren, but also the entire feel and theme of the text. The songs follow along with Lauren, with her despair, death, and the need for survival. As I scoured through song after song, I tried to connect each song choice with a particular moment in Lauren’s story and the hopelessness of a dystopian future Butler warns her audience about.

To clarify, I don’t like books, while admittedly the do offer a nonpareil tactical experience, it is the stories they contain that provide the heft of their value. Storytelling is intrinsic to who we are as human beings, and how could it not be, when we have been telling them ever since we had a break long enough between hunting and being hunted to get one out. We tell them because at their root they share the goal of deepening our understanding of what it means to be human. They are not told merely between the bindings of a book, but though work of mouth, art, dance, and the one that really makes my soul swirl: music. Which is why my story about a book whose story changed me at my crux begins with a song.

In poetry, more so than any other form of literature, understanding sound, meaning and theme are key to understanding the work itself. In the case of the poems “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes and “The Coora Flower” by Gwendolyn Brooks these elements, when heavily focused upon, allow the reader to discover the message that these writers were attempting to convey. Thought both writers use these elements to their fullest to communicate their respective messages, the method and messages vary greatly.

A comparative study of texts is imperative as it allows responders to comprehend the discrepancies and similarities between texts as well as the values of composers within their contexts. Elizabeth Barret Browning’s (EBB’S), Sonnets from the Portuguese (SFP) and The Great Gatsby (TGG) composed by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (FSF) explore the way love and spirituality have been altered by the composers over the seventy years between the texts. In EBB’S SFP published in 1850, hope, purpose and passion are accentuated. However, by the 1920’s, FSF believes that these concepts have been corrupted and are no longer possible in a materialistic and loveless contemporary America.

Revitalization Through Beauty The world refuses to do anything other than overlook the disruption of beauty in our life. In that, the importance of beauty would be much lesser without tragedy for comparison, for that beauty is only used to distract the world from what truly is happening beyond the safety for our home. In the novel The Cellist Of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway the idea of beauty is given to us through the melody played by the cellist in an area where a mortar fell and killed 22 innocent people. With that in sight, he brought sentience and tranquility through music all while surrounded by death and destruction. In the midst of tragedy, the author used the music played by the cellist to show how the character Arrow is affected and how the ruins of life and broken dreams can be again be restored by a sense of hope and revitalization.

She carries symbolic bracelets and tangled up headphones and torn playbills. She carries crumpled sheet music, a highlighted play script, a rusty gun and holster, an old calculator, worn out journals for writing fragmented lyrics, passionate feelings, unforgotten memories, and so much more. Twice or three times a week she carries packets of law and a lunch that was packed that morning. She carries a water bottle that is always half empty, or much like herself, half full, depending on how you see it. Wyatt carries the priceless shark tooth necklace she gave him, locked away somewhere unknown. Hannah carries the cheap but meaningful books that she gave her, unread but still valued. Her mother carries the candy she gave her, hard but sweet, a reflection of her soul. Something they all carried in common, was that they all carried something that was given; taking turns, they carried pieces of her shattered heart.

Again in lines 20-21, internal rhyme is used to create a rhythm, with the words, ‘smooth and truth’ and ‘soothe and youth.’ This helps emphasize the good in a bad situation because the words that rhyme are positive. It relates to the slaves because they have to make everyday better than the day before, constantly trying to avoid punishments and consequences. The tone shifts, but the mood remains the same; it seems as if there is a sense of hope towards the end, but it seems unachievable. The last two lines of the song empowers the emotions expressed through the use of end rhyme, “To relax their restless flight, / Somewhere out of a memory of lighted streets on quiet nights…” Slavery in the south offered no safe haven, they were only able to memorialize memories of the past. Throughout the entire song, there were musical devices inserted, where internal and end rhyme were used the most to justify the complications the slaves dealt

He shows how the powers of music can affect many different people. In the poem the author develops the meaning that you can use music to escape from any problem you might come across in life. The poet uses similes, symbolism, and personification to help the reader understand the message. Stephen Dobyns uses similes to show that music can be any person’s escape from their problems.

The interplay of the singers’ voices and the music created strong emotions. Without looking at the subscripts, one could already tell exactly what was being depicted. It is amazing how the speed of the music at the beginning made the slowness of the end, and long pauses, seem even more eerie.

Our previous lessons on rhythm and melody could be applied to any musical piece, but tying them to musical expression is critical in understanding the meaning of various pieces. Students can then build on what they’ve learned to interpret what each artist is trying to depict in their songs – i.e. their tone, feelings, etc. towards the subject of the piece. In addition, lesson plans may tie the interpretations of the piece to historical movements or current events ongoing now.

Throughout the song “It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me, And I'm feelin' good” is repeated and it adds to the comparison, or the symbolism it might be, of what her day is like to nature. It also adds to the theme of not every day being able to be bad and how that you can recover from anything in life, because you can start a new each day. I also think there is an underlying theme of self-worth