Rihanna Diamonds Analysis

In Rihanna’s song “Diamonds,” she sings “Shine bright like a diamond,” this line relates to the big, shiny diamond in the book, All the Light We Cannot See. The Sea of Flames is a cursed diamond and it is is said in the story, “...if you hold it you cannot die, but the people around you die within a month. Or maybe it’s a year”(Doerr 50). The diamond described in the book is a big blue diamond with flames of red in the center. The diamond was cursed by the Goddess of Earth because it was a gift for the God of the sea and when a prince found it and kept it she cursed it until it was returned to the sea and its rightful owner. Much later in the story, Marie-Laure LeBlanc returns the diamond to the ocean in a grotto and hopes to breaks the curse. …show more content…
When the chorus of the song says, “All the other kids with the pumped up kicks you'd better run, better run, out run my gun all the other kids with the pumped up kicks you'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet,” Werner could be thinking of the weakest boy at Schulpforta and feel that the boy needs to be fast enough so they others don't catch him and punish him. In the story when Frederick is caught by the fastest boy Bastian commands Rodel to beat him with a hose. The story states, “Rodel steps forward and swings the hose and smacks Frederick with it across the shoulder”(194). In contrast I can also imagine the song being seen from Frederick’s point of view. It shows a picture and emotion of what Frederick would have felt in the situation if he was getting back at the boys who chased him. He could be thinking that if the situation was reversed the other boys would have to outrun him so they wouldn't be punished. Frederick was often picked on and punished, especially when he refused to take part in killing a …show more content…
The Man he sings, “Give in to that easy living, Goodbye to my hopes and dreams,” and I think that it relates to the book when at the beginning of the story it shares about Werner’s intelligence. The book reveals that Werner wanted to be a mathematician or a scientist and constantly asks Frau Elena questions. His dreams are somewhat shattered when a vice minister and his wife visit the Children’s House, where they live. At dinner, Werner has a big book on his lap called The Principles of Mechanics, but it was written by a Jew so the vice minister confiscates it and tells Werner in protest to Jutta who was telling him that he would be studying under great scientist some day, “The only place your brother is going, little girl, is into the mines. As soon as he turns fifteen. Same as every other boy in this house”(58). By saying this, the vice minister ruined a little bit of Werner's confidence, hope, and