What Happened To Your Flute

Tori Kadotsuke Hachigaeshi’s sound of the flute is very deep and hollow when listening to the guided example. It differs from the Western flute by occasionally, there are notes that extend into high notes. On the other hand, the Western flute sounds immensely tune and precise. The Western flute has more of a higher note in the pitch and volume. Tori Kadotsuke’s sound is more capable towards different genres and themes because the flute sound is split into three octaves and a pentatonic scale. With this, unlike the Western flute, the Tori Kadotsuke flute can start with small tone notes and transition into more primary notes. There is also the Japanese Aesthetics of ma where it allows space between the beats and the sound to breathe.

“When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him”(McCarthy 3). What McCarthy really means is that The man’s and The boy’s actions are a reflection that comes from the effects on how the setting of The Road could have changed their psychological traits. Because the boy was born into this disastrous and scary world, The man felt that the boy was his responsibility. The man would do anything in order to make sure the boy will survive. Similarly, the boy, being only young in age feels sympathy for the man and shows that he is thankful for The Man’s comfort. The boy even shared the “last” coke with The Man, which was shown by McCarthy explaining “He looked at his father and then tilted the can and drank. He sat there thinking about it. It's really good, he said…Yes. It is…You have some, Papa”(23).

As he talks to Reuven about the silence between him and his father, he remarks, “…you can listen to silence and learn from it… I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it… It has a strange, beautiful texture… sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it. It hurts to listen to it then. But you have to” (249). Danny begins to understand what silence teaches him. He learns to listen to the pain of others because he suffers himself. Moreover, as Danny is about to leave to Columbia for college, Reuven describes, “His beard and earlocks were gone, and his face looked pale. But there was a light in his eyes that was almost blinding… There was a long, gentle silence” (270). Reuven notices that Danny is excited from the light in his eyes, and he now understands that silence is gentle. Because Danny realizes why Reb raised him in silence, he is no longer confused about his future. Likewise, when Reuven’s father asks Danny if he will raise his own child in silence, he replies, “Yes, if I can’t find another way” (271). Although Danny anguishes, he plans on raising his child the same way. He understands how silence taught him compassion, and he learns Reb’s purpose for raising him this way. Due to suffering, Danny understands how to listen to the world’s problems through

The narrator finds himself confronted with different forms of suffering that encompass both light and dark mechanisms of survival. Upon seeing Sonny for the first time in many years, “He looked very unlike my baby brother. Yet, when he smiled… the baby brother I’d never known looked out from the depths of his private life, like

It is these extreme behaviours, which challenge and contradict the values that most individuals have been taught from the very beginning. The values the boy must carry into the future. After the mother’s death, all that stands between him and death is his father’s light. It is this light at the end of the tunnel, which allows the man to continue his quest. Despite all the wrong deeds occurring around the world, the boy progresses through his quest whilst also upholding his values such as dignity, perseverance, justice and faith. But it is a greater story of survival, it is the story of the world surviving with the morals, beliefs and laws that are at risk of losing. This concept of the story profoundly confronts my values and how others reject them for their own survival at any cost. Having experienced the environments of a refugee camp, if people were to abandon their values and beliefs just as the characters in The Road, then there would be no hope or future left for them to look forward to.

Much of the novel takes place in the arctic or the “land of mist and snow” (56) which are symbols of the uncivil traits that the creature possess. The land can also be described as isolated, cold, and repulsive, much like the creature. The land is repeatedly referred to as the “unknown” or the “undiscovered” as civilization does not exist in such a place, humans avoid residing in such places due to the danger it poses, and due to the unfamiliarity of such harsh conditions. The creature is also avoided due to the same reasons, he is unfamiliar and appears to be dangerous to society. On the contrary, in The Road, the state of civilization does not agree with the internal condition of the boy. The novel takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, in which much of society has reverted to animalistic characteristics in pursuit of survival. It would be expected that the boy, who was born into this destruction, to be inhumane and barbaric. Rather, the boy is a remnant of humanity and civilization in an uncivilized world. The contrast between civilization and the boy is highlighted throughout the novel, the actions of the boy juxtapose the situations civilization endures around him. “If he is not the word of God God never spoke” (5) the boy is compared to a godlike figure, in a world that appears to lack faith and hope. Civilization has essentially failed within the text; however, it is ironic that the boy is born succeeding the end of

The father does not comply with his son and leaves the naked man alone in the cold. This further shows the differences between the boy and his father. The final contrast between the two is exemplified with the ending. Throughout the book the reader is allowed to assume that if the son dies in the novel then the father would consequently commit suicide. At the end of the story when the father dies first the boy stays strong and decides to blindly follow other survivors and put his faith in them. Throughout, the story; however the father doesn't put any trust into anyone. His son, being a foil of him decides to put his faith into other survivors and takes a leap of faith and follow them their camp. This instance further shows the stark difference between the father and the son.

The usage of flashbacks to connect a story that has been seamlessly woven into the tragic, yet wonderful life of Willy Loman in the play Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller. Willy Loman is a young man grown old and driven insane by the trials and tribulations of being

Throughout the story “Samuel,” Grace Paley uses language to generate a healthy dialogue about the fragility of life by comparing the thoughts and reactions of all the characters in the story leading up to and following Samuel’s tragic death. The text leads the reader through four young boys’ adventures on

For example, Jean tells Florentine that he is not her boyfriend and implies that marriage is not something he would commit to. He could not provide Florentine what he himself was deprived from all his life. She symbolizes the life he has struggled to escape from: “Florentine’s image might fade in his memory, […] never would he forget the horrid poverty that had been the setting of their moment of love.” (211). Emmanuel’s feeling for Florentine alters his perception of her and he grows confused between his idealisation of her and the real-life Florentine; “Had he been wrong about all those evenings when he had, in his fancy, danced with her, chatted with her, […]. Did she correspond to his dreams, […] or was she quite different, and he would have to teach her to love him?” (293). The protagonist, Florentine is herself this deceived love. She is cheated and in order to amend her heart, she deceives the heart of Emmanuel. Another character, whose feelings are in a certain way deceived, is Yvonne. Indeed, the heroine’s little sister offers to dedicate her life to God in exchange for him to cure Daniel. Each character of The Tin Flute embodies love in their own

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

The sister prepares the evening meal, making her contribution to the family; and calls on the boy to come and eat. The saw in the boy?s hands was still running and when he took his attention away from his work, and that split second of carelessness cost him an extremity. His instincts raised his arm upward to keep all the blood from spilling out immediately. When he realized what was happening, the boy finally realized he was to young to be doing a man?s work. The boy ?saw all spoiled,? and now knew his whole childhood had vanished and it was impossible to get it back. The boy frantically called out to his sister to make the doctor keep his hand on. The boy?s body must have instantly gone into shock and not felt the absence of the hand. When the doctor arrived he gave him some ether to make him go to sleep. The little boy began to lose his pulse and soon he was a stranger to the world. The people surrounding the boy never expected the loss of his hand to tragically end the little boy?s life. Frost?s almost appalling casual description of death shocks the reader enough to make them think. ?Since they were not the one dead, turned to their affairs,? describes the environment of the survivors. They are forced to move on with their life and keep working because they cannot afford to stop and mourn.

The Deeper Meaning In the touching play of Atsumori we see this astounding tale of faith and adventure. It begins with the death of a young and innocent character, Atsumori. The childlike character was killed by a man who deemed it necessary to the boys’ honor. Atsumori was in a clan that was fleeing an army but Atsumori forgot his flute in the camp site, so he had to go back and retrieve it. He is then set upon by warriors and the main character, Rensho, seeing no way out for the boy give the boy an honorable death.

This impetuousness leads to significant consequences for Yonatan. Impetuousness drives Yonatan to attempt feats that most people would never dream of attempting in a manner that mirrors reckless behaviors. Impetuousness, exuberance, and lack of ability to comprehend the intentions of others combine in Yonatan to have the hyperbolic effect of death. The author writes that, “Sergei tells the boy … the earring boy is stubborn … the kid is slippery … the kid is in his house.” The inability Yonatan shows in interpreting Sergei’s opinion of Yonatan’s presence and the exuberance he shows in his noncompliance with Sergei’s wishes leads to his imminent demise and feeds the impulsiveness Yonatan shows by forcing his way into Sergei’s home. Yonatan is completely incapable of comprehending that Sergei does not want anything to do with his documentary. Furthermore, when the Keret writes that, “the kid with the earring starts screaming ‘Goldfish, goldfish,’ he’s so excited,” he describes Yonatan’s incompetence in conveying his intentions. The impetuousness that ensues because of these instances of miscommunications is one of the things that motivates Yonatan to pursue his documentary. Lack of this impetuousness and presence of reason and intellect would dictate a much different plot, one in which Yonatan leaves Sergei’s doorstep unscathed and Sergei has his third wish to use as he

The boy increases in his intellectual and skillful capacity through his experiences on his journey to maturity. An experience that reveals the boys growth occurs on page 6; the text states, “It was the watch, the compass, the stick – the three lifeless mechanicals with which for nine hours he has fended the wilderness off; he hung the watch and compass carefully on a bush and leaned the stick beside them and relinquished completely to it”. The boy acknowledges that he must let go of the tools that had acted as a support system for him as he braved the wilderness; when he leaves behind his tools, he completely surrenders himself to the wilderness, a sign of his newfound independence. In terms of skillful growth, “Each morning he would leave the camp right after