The Quiet Soldier provides excellent examples of music therapy in practice with a patient that has sickle cell anemia. The patient tends to keep to himself and not tell how he feels inside. The therapist’s technique begins by interviewing the client with simple, broad questions to attempt to open him up to express how he feels. The therapist later changes discussion to talk about which instruments and how music distracts him from the pain he constantly feels. The technique is unique because of its simplicity in nature, that by asking questions such as, “what was the worst pain you have ever experienced?”. Questions such as these make the client open up to the therapist and explain how he feels and eventually how music itself is a method of treatment that he uses to distract himself throughout the day. …show more content…
“And now [hits cymbal] … to the hospital [hits the tom drum]”, is significant because he describes his worst pain that he was feeling in comparison to the school bell ringing, symbolized by hitting the cymbal. He doesn’t want to miss school, but realizes that even if he does go to school, he will be in constant pain and eventually have to go to the hospital for relief after school anyways. He hits on the cymbal and drum to relieve himself of the painful memories that he is reliving. The next quote states, “At first when I played… rhythm encouraged me”. Walter has trouble playing notes on the recorder, due to only taking small breaths. However with the help from the piano’s rhythm, he is able to find ease in taking longer breaths. Thus Walter was encouraged to play more and found joy in it. He even continues to explain that his mother taught him ways to “encourage myself to take my mind off the pain”. Music had been one of the many ways that Walter found escape from the endless pain that he suffered from the sickle cell
Later on in the film when Walter finds out his mother lied to him a close-up shot along with sad violin music place there by the director evokes the fact to the audience that Walter is really all alone. Finally, Tim McCanlies uses various film techniques at the start of the film to show that Walter has not changed yet.
Sickle cell anemia is a hereditary disorder that mostly affects people of African ancestry, but also occurs in other ethnic groups, including people who are of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern descent. More than 70,000 Americans have sickle cell anemia. And about 2 million Americans - and one in 12 African Americans - have sickle cell trait (this means they carry one gene for the disease, but do not have the disease itself).
Walter is tired of not being able to properly provide for his family and take on the role of man of the house. He wants the best for his family, and especially for his son Travis. In his current state though, all he can give to his family are “stories about how rich white people live” (Hansberry, 34),. This frustrates him as he is over thirty, yet has “a boy who sleeps in the living room” (Hansberry, 34), and can barely provide for his family. This is similar to the first stanza of “Sympathy”, where the caged bird feels all the beauty of freedom but can never fully experience it. Walter, like the bird is trapped and is tauntingly reminded of this daily.
In the beginning of the play, Walter seems to be a childish and self-obsessed person, but he has ambitions of pursuing his dreams. In the play, Walter says, “I’m thirty five years old; I been married eleven years
Walter's frustration festers and his anger turns inward towards his family who, in Walters eyes, do not understand him. Walter's family members do understand him and they also want to amass material dreams, but Walter's family members know that it is going to take work to get there.
As the film develops, I was moved by Walter taking lessons from Tarek, on learning to play the djembe and he was impress and successful in his public performances on the instrument. Walter’s piano teacher response to him firing her in the beginning of the film taught him that it is very difficult for people of his age with little experience to achieve success in learning how to play a new instrument. Walter had an encounter with a student who, submits a late paper and asks for it to be accepted, heartlessly Walter refused to accept. At that moment, Walter was witnessed by the viewer to be insensitive and cold. It’s not until the end of the film, the
Toward the end of the play his spirit is broken, and he behaves almost like a madman, plotting to give in to Lindner and accept his offer; this action greatly worries his mother. The whole time, Walter wasn’t simply looking for a chance to follow through with his plans. He was seeking support from the system that he found himself subject to. This idea comes up in Gertrude Samuels’ Even More Crucial Than in the South. “…the real drive that is now rising ominously is a demand for personal dignity” (Samuels 1546). His personal dignity is at stake repeatedly throughout the story when he finds himself battling against a troubled family and a corrupt system.
Showing his frustration to his mother, Walter does not feel like he will ever acquire his dream because he feels like he never got the chance or opportunity to. The inability of not able to provide a better life for his household is causing him to stress, act out of character and clouding his decision making. With nowhere else to turn he thought he could use his father’s life insurance money to invest into a liquor store which turned into a scam. Walter feeling trapped from making advancements in life, he makes a huge mistake and learns from this error. In the play Walter is talking to mother describing his anger,
Sickle Cell Anemia is a hereditary disease that changes the smallest and most important components of the body. A gene causes the bone marrow in the body to make sickled shapes, when this happens; it causes the red blood cell to die faster. This is what causes Hemolytic Anemia. Older children and adults with sickle cell disease may experience a few complications, or have a pattern of ongoing problems that shorten their lives. The most common and serious complications of sickle cell disease are anemia, pain, fatigue, and organ failure. Today there are many alternatives and opportunities that a sickle cell patient may consider. One outlined in this paper is the Hydroxyurea method.
Walter struggles in understanding who he needs to be for his family. He wants to take his place as the patriarch of the family, but he feels incapable of providing them with the lifestyle they deserve. This concern is always at the forefront of his mind, and it affects his attitude and outlook. The anxiety that Walter is dealing with creates confrontation with his sister. He fears that her dream will interfere with his own agenda of making a better life for his family. The severity of the tension becomes more and more apparent with Walter’s unwise investment. Walter is dealing with the burden that he has let his family down, while Beneatha is flabbergasted by the reality that her future has been snatched away from her, and she had no control over it. While reflecting on the situation, Beneatha remarks, “ I sound like a human who just had her future taken right out of my hands! While I was sleeping….things were happening in this world that directly concerned me and nobody consulted me—they just went out and did things—and changed my life” (Hansberry 3.15). Walter and Beneatha’s individual issues with the outcome of the situation cause them to find fault with one another during a time when their family needs to pull together to get through such a financial hardship. Walter is in an emotional pit; his turning to alcohol and music instead of his family for support expands the
The sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disorder that affects red blood cells. People with sickle cell have red blood cells that have mostly hemoglobin's, Sometimes these red blood cells become sickle-shaped or crescent shaped and have trouble going through small blood vessels. When sickle-shaped cells block small blood vessels, less blood can get to that part of the body. Tissue that does not get a normal blood flow eventually becomes damaged. This is what causes the problems of sickle cell disease.
support therapist with there efforts of associated within arts to aid in helping patients through raising their disposition through music. The critical observations towards Music therapy by health and medical care has struck my cord of curiosity as to establish how they have stood up to these viewpoints.
In the beginning, the idea of music therapy arose after World War I and World War II when community musicians of all types, both amateur and professional, went to Veterans’ hospitals around the country to play for
Because of this Walter has lost his self esteem and will to do anything to make his life better. This is important because it shows that Walter does not have a firm grasp on his own identity.
Needle pricks, medicine, exhaustion, sickness, pain, feeling different ‒ these are just a few of the things that people with mental disabilities and serious diseases have to go through on a daily basis. But what if there was a different kind of treatment that could comfort them or reduce their pain even a little bit? Fortunately, for the people facing these issues, there is. Music therapy is a relatively new approach that doctors, teachers, and many others are taking to help heal and improve the quality of life for their patients and students. It’s starting to become more common around the United States and is expected to become even more popular in the future. Books like Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart support the idea of music therapy by demonstrating how music can be used to soothe and improve the moods of individuals regardless of what they may be going through. Music therapy is an effective way to speed up the healing process and improve the emotional state of a wide range of people facing different obstacles in life.