The Magic Flute Short Story

It shows how the Flute family initially hid behind a cowardly shadow and explains why, at certain times through the novel, the characters let their pasts affect their attitudes and actions in the present. Most importantly, it illustrates how their hope and belief in finding a better life allows for the creation of an intangible child that will guide them to this new place. It allows for the creation of Thursday’s Child, a young, courageous boy who carries all their dreams and desires yet is just out of reach and cannot be caught; Thursday's child has far to go.

In examining the libretto The Phantom of the Opera, the interactions and attitudes of the characters, and the language used, I will show how the Phantom’s obsession over Christine, although at times destructive, leads to his change from an evil and selfish villain, to a remorseful and compassionate hero. To understand the psyche of the Phantom, one must first have a brief overview of the play.

Many of the characters in the play are stuck playing a comedic role or a dramatic role, but Flute is one of the characters that gets to play both, again, making him a much more rounded character. Playing the part of Thisbe requires

1. Roy, Gabrielle. The Tin Flute. Translated by Alan Brown. Toronto: McCelland & Stewart Inc., 1989

This audio extract from Act 1 Scene 3 characterizes Othello in many ways, but ultimately as the tragic hero of the play. This scene sets up the tragic downfall of the protagonist and disrupts the chain of being by exposing Othello’s fatal flaw, his hubris. Othello’s speech and relationship with Desdemona are two key ways that the audio explores his hubris.

I wanted to see the fairy. I didn’t want to go anywhere else yet. So papa took me and when I saw her, she was beautiful. Unfortunately, she couldn’t speak, but she had a flute that she would play as an answer. She gave my sister and I a fairy stone.

When people have a chance at being happy they throw everything they have into that opportunity because they do not want it to pass by them and live the rest of their life wondering what if. That is what Florentine was battling with in The Tin Flute. She does not know if she should follow Jean and see the movie with him or let him pass her by. Florentine is almost afraid to say no because she wants this chance at happiness. In “The Tin Flute” by Gabrielle Roy the reader should learn that people can throw everything they have into a chance at happiness because they are afraid of what may happen if they let it pass.

When I was a little boy my mom, dad, and three little siblings lived in a in a small dimly lit cabin owned by a white man. He owned the endless fields and all of the sharecropper cabins upon it. My dad was one of the many sharecroppers who worked the land the white man owned. He rented the small plot of land in return for a portion of the crops we harvested to be given to the landowner. Our lives were hard; we worked in the fields and had very little to live on. We were poor, and to make it worse we were black.

This piece begins with a pickup by the flute, who leads the A melody into the first section. After 8 bars, the strings and harp enter (0:27) while the flute starts to repeat the beginning of the A melody. However, three bars into this repetition, the melody changes, though the instrumentation does not (0:35). The flute slowly inches towards the peak of its melodic shape until it reaches it at (0:48). The flute then fades out as the strings flesh out the rest of the 8-bars.

Florentine is illustrated as an overwhelmed frightened character when faced with the “Breadwinning” position, her parental influence has emphasized this “frailty” in her character. Florentine;s mother, Rose-Anna is a mother of twelve children; Rose-Anna’s life has been stricken by the country’s dire economical situation, neither her nor Florentine's dad Azarius is employed. Due to the continual dependence on Florentine, effects of exhaustion and frustration is being built up by Florentine. “It was obvious she hated her job, yet she gave almost everything she earned to her family”(29); this passage is an accurate representation of the women working class in the 1940's. The narrative of a historical fiction renders influence for actual concepts; The Tin Flute was published in 1945, just 6 years after a very dramatic economical depression, concepts from Gabrielle Roy's actual life must have influenced her story-telling of The Tin Flute. Katrina Srigley's representation also represents a similar ideology, continual pressure on working women was necessary, “the vast majority of women, both married and single, worked because they had to or were expected to, not because of selfish indulgence(29). Avoiding poverty was the required goal; the constant pressure to provide for a family was discernible,“domestic

To assist me in the completion of my Arts Responding activity I found the video we watched in our Week 12 workshop extremely valuable. This video, titled ‘Instrument Families’ by Andrea Burress, examines the different musical instruments, categorises them into instrumental families and gives examples of the sounds that each instrument produces. The knowledge I gained from this video allowed me to detect which instruments were being played in each section of The Moldau and thus, complete the Arts Responding activity. As well as this, I used a variety of websites, including the Rockford Symphony Orchestra website and the In Mozart’s Footsteps website. These assisted me in analysing the musical elements featured in the Moldau and uncovering the inspiration behind the song and the cultural significance of

lipman the voice that tells the story is a past student of a music teacher that passed away. Joanne lipman is writing about her experiences with her tough music teacher she had in high school.Some of the assumptions of joanne are that she did not ever realize that the teacher was tough on them only to get the best out of them not to be mean but to show them that there was talent in every single one of them, but they just needed to find it. Joanne is much older she is a writer that just really thought after her teachers death how he really taught her that you need to keep practicing on things to to get better.

Throughout their journey, the father and the boy experience many horrific events that the common eight year old would not be able to handle, which causes the boy to loose his innocence very quickly. While traveling, the father carved a flute for the boy, but the beautiful music from the flute does not play for long. "What happened to your flute? I threw it away. You threw it away? Yes" (McCarthy 159). This startling decision that the boy made shows that he has gotten over the flute, which represents his innocence. His innocence has been lost because has seen people eat infants, walked past charred skeletons, felt the impact of starvation, and much more. All of these nightmarish events have culminated into the boy's innocence collapsing along

The use of the flute in the play, Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller enhances the work’s meaning and heightens the literature’s level of art. Throughout the play, the flute makes numerous appearances, each time bringing much symbolism to the scene. The flute represents Willy, the protagonist's, memories of his father. As the play begins, flute music plays symbolizing Willy’s overwhelming life as well as his abandonment issues. The flute appears again and portrays Willy’s father’s haunting him. In Act II, the flute resurfaces to portray the hardship Willy faces as a result of his father’s leaving him isolated. As the play comes to a close, the flute music plays for the last time to finish the ongoing theme of desertion that Willy feels. The symbol of the flute in the play greatly enhances the plot and adds another dimension of art to the play.

Gabrielle Roy’s novel the tin flute takes place in Saint-Henri neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec during the Second War World. This novel examines many themes, literary devices and important aspects seen through the perspective of the Lacasse family as they struggle through life in poverty.