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Setting Up The Drums

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Everyone has a moment in life where they feel they have lost their honour and certainty in these moments of failures and uncertainty an individual’s life changes and that individual is given the chance to redeem themselves and get back on track to a more balanced life. Honour is all about respectability and worthiness to one’s self and those around them, as for certainty this is knowing one will live day to day with the reliability that not much will change in regards to chaos. Beginning with Setting Up The Drums, a poem written by Don McKay the poem is based around making that best out of a difficult situation. When faced with a difficult predicament in life it is easy to run away and not deal with it, but the author of this poem is saying …show more content…

Within this story Jack Hawthron caused an accident that resulted in the death of his younger brother, in the beguiling you see how this affects him he has lost all honour for himself as well as how his family and friends see him, he feels worthless and is consumed by his depression for what he has done. Not knowing how to deal with what has happened he starts playing the French horn as a coping mechanism to get through the pain and suffering of losing his brother. At first he is not any good to the point his teacher laughs at his abilities to play the horn, but he continues on and only uses that as motivation to get better. The astonishing results are he finds peace within himself to forgive himself for what has happened and move on, his love for music and the horn helped him to focus on something positive that would completely change his life around. He no longer lived in a state of depression and despair he was moving forward with life with a more positive attitude which lead to him felling worthy of honour. This has much on common with the first poem “ Setting up the Drum “ in that both of these texts the writers use instruments to show that one’s life can change and one can become Enlighted and positive even from the darkest moments of their lives. Overall the reader gets s a sense of hope and strength that someone can overcome difficult times and move forward to a meaningful

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