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Dating back to the times of slavery, the black community in America has historically used music as a vehicle for self-expression and introspection. The blues was the original form of musical self-expression, and was conceived from “field hollering”, the melodious manner in which slaves working the fields and forests aired out grievances and gave their opinions on their present situation. The use of music for communal empowerment and expression of self within the black community is still seen today, but is seen in the more contemporary genre of hip-hop music which originated in the early 70s in the New York Inner City. Grandmaster Flash is credited with being one of the original pioneers of the hip-hop

When Edgar was born, his father abandoned the entire family. Then Edgar’s mother died of tuberculosis when he was only 3 years old. He was then orphaned by John Allan and Frances Keeling Valentine Allan. Edgar, as a young child, had a good stepfather-son relationship, but as Edgar

Ed is an unimportant member of society driving a cab illegally without a significant purpose other than drinking coffee with his dog, the Doorman, and badly playing cards with his friends. Soon though his mediocrity come to an end with the arrival of a card, an ace,

Turning against the world of drugs and violence, Eddie vows to take the straight and narrow path, even if it means struggling at temporary manual labor jobs. So when he takes a landscaping job for a white man across town thinking that god had finally heard him, the man's truck is stolen from the front of Eddie's apartment causing yet another problem to add on. He hid for hours and days drinking because he really liked his job with the white man and was afraid of what might happen to him. Although getting the truck stolen from him kinda seems like a big deal, it is not because that sort of thing happens daily in the streets of fresno that he lived by, it was almost like that was something normal to him. So when his aunt gets home she reminds him yet another time that his cousin died only this time a gun came with the tortillas she would try and persuade him with the avenge the death of her son.

Eddie at the beginning of the story was hopeful that his career would succeed.Everything started going well for him, people said he played from the heart. He was starting to show that he had money, he got a leather jacket and and wore a chain. He made 1 record that went to the charts. When he went to hollywood he met a girl immediately and moved in with her. Not only that she taught him how to play the guitar which started his music career.Eddie started to become successful however when the A&R man told him that he doesn't hear a single. His music career was basically over, he had no idea what to do, he was confused. He was lost, he had no career when his A&R man fired him, he is “a rebel without a

Each task that Ed is to complete is there to assist another person in one way or another. Each time he does this he risks something of his and, even though he is aware of this, he continues to do so. This is a customary trait of the stereotypical hero – to put another before one’s self and this is exactly what Ed does, be it a complete stranger or one of his closest friends. He puts his life on the line, gives up his money, time and attention all for the sake of others. He isn’t required to do this, he chooses to – he thinks of others wellbeing’s before his own.

Instead she holded up in her room, smoking meth, drinking [...] Eddie and his 12-year-old sister gabrielle, had no one to guide them”. Edde survived by seeking out new relationships with the motel manager and his cousin Jonathan Levario creating a fresh loving relationship that was not present within his own family even Jonathan later died of acute heroin and meth toxicity. Because loving relationships are one of the best experiences to have, they are also difficult to maintain. Imagine bottles of liquor and bags of cocaine and other drugs Eddie’s parents indulged themselves into satisfying their

Evelyn laments that “he [Cross] owns the police,” and officer Escobar ignores Jake's pleas to let her go. Instead, Escobar and his men are responsible for Evelyn's death, which occurs in public vicinity. Even after the tragic scene, the police dismissively shoo away an onlooking public. In fact, the police department viewed Chinatown as a land ruled by incomprehensible laws, a place symbolic of “the futility of good intentions” (Ain-Krupa 84). A demoralized Jake looks on helplessly as Walsh remarks, “Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.” Jake's expression is not one of horror, but of blank befuddlement that expresses “as little as possible” (Caputo

After learning his lesson about forgiveness from Ruby, Eddie implements the teachings he received to work towards forgiving his father. Throughout his childhood, Eddie encounters abuse by his father’s hand, and during his battle with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, after returning from the war, and trying to cope with his leg injury, the only thing that Eddie’s father says to him is, “get up and get a job,” (Albom 108). Many other instances of physical, emotional, and psychological abuse take place throughout Eddie’s life, thus prompting the insightful passage of, “All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair,” (Albom 104). Eddie even goes to describe his relationship with his father as occurring in three stages throughout his lifetime; neglect, violence, and silence. Upon the event of his father’s death, Eddie feels obligated to quit his schooling, work at the Pier full-time, and look after his mother, who is completely lost in her grief in the aftermath of losing her husband. Later on in the novel, Eddie explains that all he wanted to do in life was get away from the Pier, but he uses his circumstance as a reason not to,

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After escaping to the farm as a “he”, Eddie feels determined to conquer the farm owner’s wife in order to establish male subjectivity. However, Eddie is often defeated by her aggressive femininity. Once, while Eddie is alone, he is driven by strong desire to dress up in woman’s clothes, lying in bed and dreaming of masculinity. The two identities, Eudoxia and Eddie, start to blend with each other here. Meanwhile, the complexity of the relationship between Eddie and the farm manager furthers his struggles. When they are together, they often have intense lust toward each other, but the seemingly consensual sexual behaviors are all done under dreadful violence.

After Eddie meets his fifth person, Tala, he understood that his life had meaning. Tala brings him back to the place in the war and shows him that she was stuck in the house that he set on fire. She gave him a stone and told him to wash all her scars away to show that she moved on and forgave him for killing her. She shows him that all life has a purpose no matter how long or short it is. He knows that when he died he was holding onto a little kids hands. He thought it was Amy or Annie, the little girl he saved from being killed. Instead Tala shows Eddie that it was her hands pulling him up into heaven. The whole time Eddie was in heaven and with his four other people, he did not understand that he lived until then for a reason or that his life and his death was not a waste. Eddie learns that because he stayed there his whole life and didn’t move like he wanted to, he saves a child’s life. He accepts his death and is at peace with everything that has happened to him.

Eleina went to the train station to meet him, while Emily stayed home. His train had arrived and he walked out with tears he was finally free, back to his old life, although without an arm he knew he could survive especially by his family’s side. He and his wife returned home, there Emily’s jaw dropped dropped to the floor as if she had seen her life flash by her eyes, but rather she had seen her father without an arm, she couldn’t believe her eyes.”It was my fault, I couldn’t keep the crane safe its wing broke and now your’s is too.”

To Understand Edgar Allan Poe’s works we have to understand who Edgar was. Poe’s reputation was primarily based on his tales of terror. It made him seem as if he was a dark heartless man himself. Nevertheless, he was more that, he was the middle child of three, he had lost both of his parents at the age of three, and he had big dreams of being a great writer (Poe Museum 2014). As a young child, he was cared for by Mr. and Mrs. Allan. Mr. John Allan wanted Edgar to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman like his self (Poe Museum 2014). Mr. Allan didn’t like the fact that Edgar wanted to be a writer (Poe Museum 2014). Edgar grew up in a good environment and went to the best schools, and at the age of 17 he went to the University of Virginia (Giordano 2007). During his college years, with the money that Mr. Allan gave him to support his schooling, Edgar would become an alcoholic and got into debt. Eventually, he drops out of school for a while, but by then he was well in his writing and was already on his first book called the Tamerlane (Giordano 2007). He didn’t have much money, so he joined the U.S. Army

But I want to focus on the key points in the statement above. Suicide is a very common thing in history, literature, and sadly reality itself. It could be caused by many things, in this case I believe what caused Edgar to put a bullet through his skull was a trigger of bad impulsive behavior. Some of his last thoughts were of not wanting to live in a world without dollars, and how dishonourable it would be. If he had thought over how illogical his plan of escape was, I don’t think he would have continued. The cowardice statement could be a metaphor for death, and how fear could trap the person who created it into their own deaths. A deer in the headlights if you will. Edgar was a coward for not having the guts to face their fears, and going out and trying to survive, but immediately going to a gun’s help.