Shintaro's Loss In The High School Band

How much the individual was invested or involved with the lost variable changes how much it affects them when the variable suddenly disappears; the more the person was related to the variable, the more it affects the said person. At times, even outsiders feel the aftershocks of sudden disappearance, although how they deal with the loss is different than the person who was directly involved with the absent variable. The story between Shintaro and Ayano from Jin’s song Toumei Answer is similar to how the narrator of “The High School Band” perceives the practicing high school band’s routine. Although Shintaro’s loss may be incomparable with the narrator’s loss, the same feeling of the once spectator affected by an absence is undeniably similar.
The poem starts out in a warm September morning setting, the narrator describing a high school band that “is up with the birds and marches …show more content…
When the high school band is ushered into school and the field is left with the roaring silence, the only thing that was left were the “leaves that [descended] to no drum/ and [lay] still” (Whittemore). This verse shows the reader that the less a person, place or thing is affiliated with something, the less it will affect them if the thing of matter suddenly becomes absent. Similarly, when Ayano died and her whole class was mourning the loss, Shintaro suspected that “someone might have already forgotten how she smiles, or even her shade of hair” (Jin). It might have been him being a cruel and callous fool, resenting the idea that someone might already have forgotten about her; but even though she was in good terms with everyone in her class, Ayano wasn’t as close to her classmate as she was with Shintaro. And the logic that the less something is important to an individual, the easier it is to forget about it is very agreeable and applicable in both