What Is Billy Joel's Tone In 'Vienna'?

“In Another Country,” by Ernest Hemingway, is a short story about a few wounded soldiers after World War I. Hemingway uses different techniques to create the mood of despair. Setting, elements of futility, and isolation of the characters develop the mood.

He is able to use these parts to manipulate the audience’s emotions. The music playing from the car is an on-screen sound. As the man gets attacked, the volume increases. The sound helps intensify the scene that has been created by the film’s visual elements. The audience then subconsciously forms ideas, opinions, and feelings about what they are seeing. The viewers develop scared feelings as the scene intensifies to the happy upbeat tune. The increasing volume of the cheery song reflects the violence and the sinisterness of the scene. The song stops with the slamming of the car’s driver-side door as the man is abducted. There is a moment of silence and then a new song abruptly entered the silent scene. The music is non-diegetic and is an offscreen sound. The song is screechy, high pitched, and jagged sounding at first, continuing the anxious and scared mood. The song shifts into a sort of soulful hymn. The tone shifts along with the song. The audience begins to feel relieved and relaxes to the peaceful song.

In his article, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” author Gay Talese writes an insightful retelling of the time right before Frank Sinatra’s fiftieth birthday. Talese was originally meant to write a profile on Sinatra, but Sinatra refused, due to him being under the weather. Instead, Talese stayed in Los Angeles and informally shadowed Sinatra. Observing the legend, and interviewing the men and women closest to him, Talese wrote a more personal profile on the singer that lends itself to a more fictional tone. This insight to Sinatra’s life, and the way it was carefully molded—Talese said that he interviewed at least a hundred people and could spend days perfecting just a small set of phrases—was very well received by readers and critics all around. In the article, Talese uses all types of writing techniques from his arsenal to make the text as exemplary as possible. These techniques include the use of figurative language and characterization, symbolism, theme, and imagery.

1.Five references from the song are North Korea/South Korea, England’s got a new queen, Joseph Stalin, Elvis Presley, and Berlin. Joel references historical events starting in 1949 through 1989. The allusions help me understand Billy Joel’s message in the song, by showing that history will never stop. The generations of the world inherit previous generations historical events.

Much of Holden’s inner turmoil comes from the lack of closure he had from his brother’s death. Regarding Allie, we can see that he struggles a lot with death and depression in general and we are shown this multiple times throughout the book for example in chapter one he describes himself as "wanting to disappear", introducing the reader to a first glimpse of Holden's frustration, saying, "I don’t even know what I was running for- I guess I felt like it. After I got across the road, I felt like I was sort of disappearing. It was that kind of crazy afternoon, terrifically cold and no sun out or anything…" This quote is important to the theme of unresolved grief because it reveals the fragility of Holden’s mental state. Salinger often uses second-person narration that addresses in the novel to show us that Holden is trying to disconnect from his problems and emotions by addressing the reader, proving that Holden has fallen negatively to the impacts of unresolved grief This also helps to make him feel less lonely and alienated. The personification of the "crazy afternoon" is a subtle nod to Holden’s damaging mental state about the effects of Allie's death. The windows are mentioned often and symbolize a barrier between himself and the people and world around him. Salinger was competently able to address the theme of unresolved grief, creating a novel that is untouched by any other in terms of quality and messages

An outsider has different social, emotional, and moral views to the outside world, and this influences the outsider’s sense of self, and opinions of their world. The protagonists from both The Catcher in the Rye and The Year my Voice Broke take pride in their quirks and nonconformity, without becoming downtrodden or antisocial; making them motivational, inspiring characters for readers to relate to. Holden Caulfield is the misguided storyteller, the wandering young man from The Catcher in the Rye, a man who’s been through great trauma and despite his pain and swiftly deteriorating mental health, is trying to find his place in a world he feels is at odds with him. Similarly, Danny from The Year My Voice Broke is trapped in the typical teenage love triangle despite being anything but typical himself, struggling to be with the girl he cares so deeply about, without losing who he really is, or who he cares about.

That's one nice thing about carousels, they always play the same songs.” (pg. 189) The carousel that Holden used to visit as a child still played the same song giving him hope that if the carrousel didn’t have to change over a such a long period time maybe he didn’t have to as well. By Salinger describing the young mind frame of Holden it is seen how his obsession with his world not changing can cause him to alienate himself as he feels as though if he is alone, he can control the way his own world works.

Salinger highlights the struggle after a loved one’s death through the protagonist, Holden, who accounts the memories of his brother Allie: “He used to laugh so hard at something he thought of at the dinner table that he just about fell off his chair. I was only thirteen, and they were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the windows in the garage. I don't blame them” (Salinger 38). At an adolescent age, Holden had to go through the tragedy of his brother's death, where he demonstrated strange behavior due to his emotional instability. Holden had ruined his friendship with Stradlater, who’d asked Holden to write him an English prompt where Holden wrote about Allie’s glove, but had disappointed Stradlater, thus Holden tore the paper. Holden became furious due to the connection Holden had with his brother, he portrayed the misunderstanding that society and adolescents have of one another after a

The phone booth, which conveys Holden’s loneliness, converts to our society’s use of social media, one’s room, and actions towards others as a way of displaying isolation. This leads to isolation revealing itself to be an underlying form of loneliness. Hence, the fact that the phone booth is an isolation place, it decodes to be loneliness; a feeling that is no stranger to citizens of today's society.

Throughout this fragment of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson portrays Melinda with an introvertive voice. Melinda is having a hard time warming up to her new high school. The excerpt starts off with Melinda trying to find a place to sit in the lunchroom. “There’s that new girl, Heather, reading by the window. I could sit across from her. Or I could crawl behind a trash can.” (Paragraph 2) Melinda would rarther hide and go unnoticed than interact with other students. This quote shows us that she’s willing to take great measures to avoid being observed. Another example of diction was when Melinda was seen without a hallway pass by Mr. Neck, and when she was asked to explain herself, she just thinks to herself: “It is easier to not say anything… Nobody

American poet May Sarton once said, "Everything I've ever written is to understand something, some idea, some emotion". This idea lends to understanding how the autobiographical story telling of Holden and Dave helps them achieve some semblance of therapy. Though “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” exists as an acknowledged memoir, Holden Caulfield still gives his story through a first person lens, making his story every ounce as autobiographical as Dave’s. Because the relationships that Dave and Holden cultivate over the course of their stories do not exist as entirely successful ones, it that makes the relationships they have with themselves all the more important. In an essay discussing the irony in “Catcher in the Rye”, author Privitera says, “The irony of Holden is that the harder he tries to keep his family and friends at arm’s length, the closer he comes to making unexpected discoveries about them and even himself.”

A collage, in my opinion, is a great way to grasp the concept of Joel’s song. Collages allow the viewer to see the art from a different point of view, and “seeing” a song can help the person to actually see what Joel was trying to prove. In this project, I used pictures of almost every historical perspective he mentioned in his song, and circled all of those elements around a picture of a flame in the middle. I chose to do this because the flame is the ultimate theme of the song, and all of the events and people he is singing about contribute to the large fire that begins to grow due to all of these events combined. Along with placing the flame in the center, I matted it on an orange paper, unlike any of the other pictures, to help it stand out, since it is the main theme of the song. For those who have a difficult time learning without pictures, this is a great way for them to see all of the aspects of Joel’s song together on one page. As well as making a collage, I also made cupcakes to help

The author writes the story in a very interesting way. The way that there are only a few descriptions scattered about and that it focuses on dialogue is what allows us to figure out what the characters are speaking about and to find the intentions behind their words. The subject of this short narrative stands out boldly. Though it was written in

Billy Joel is one of the best selling solo artists of all time in the United States. Amongst his most popular songs are “Piano Man,” “We Didn’t Start the Fire” and “She’s Always a Woman,” all with good reason. Having written a plethora of memorable songs that could easily be added to the soundtrack of our lives, Billy Joel’s undoubtedly one of the most talented musicians and songwriters of all time.

The scene begins with Joel and Clementine laying underneath a blanket. Clementine is telling Joel a story from her childhood, and as she tells the story, we can hear music in the background, which is considered non-diegetic sound because the audience can hear it but not the characters in the movie. The music we hear, as audience members, is very calming and smooth and continues to play as Clementine tells her story. We then see Joel crawling between blankets because he is trying to catch up with a memory that is currently being erased. As he moves to another memory, we can hear another type of non-diegetic sound; however, this time it is harsh and fast, which indicates that he is moving fast because he does not want the memory to be erased. We continue hearing this harsh sound as he remembers the beginning of the memory of him and Clementine