Life Exposed In Ralph Ellison's Living With Music

In life, everyone has a specific talent that helps them cope with their adversities and hardship. People have skills in areas such as singing, acting, playing an instrument and many more. Ellison represented this idea through his memoir, “Living with Music,” as a demonstrating as with art and writing, a person can express their true feelings. The style of writing that Ellison used in his memoir was purposely written to trigger his reader's attention. He used a sympathetic tone as well as allusion and juxtaposition to grab his readers attention and also influencing them to follow their dreams.
Throughout his memoir, he showed a sympathetic feeling toward his characters. He started it with the drunk, how drinking helps him to forget about the difficulties his goes through in life. Ellison learned that the society plays a role in this miserable life, as well as the noise and the stress of his family. By demonstrating this, he implied that, “... but in all chaos of sound, I sympathized with his obsession, for I, too, hungered and thirsted for quiet.” Ellison’s tone became sympathetic because he felt that there is …show more content…
He describes them as a mentor and ambitious individuals who devote on their work. Ellison message was to inform us to follow our dream. Many of time society will look down upon us because they assume you can make it. But with Ellison he wants us to pick our passion and try to persuade it. There must be obstacles we must face in but having confidence can end you to your