Music brings joy to people who are sad, angry, etc. It really impacts people’s lives and brings them out of the rough spot that they are stuck in. Music can be a powerful tool when lifting your spirits. At the beginning of the Wagner Matinee it shows how Aunt Georgiana acted at first. “She sat mutely staring at the violin bows that drove obliquely downward, like the pelting streaks of rain in a summer shower. Had this music any message for her? Had she enough left to at all comprehend this power which had kindled the world since she had left it” This huge excerpt pieces together that this was a distant memory for Aunt Georgiana and she showed no signs of emotion. She at first had no connection to the music, but after a while it finally reached
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“Soon after the tenor began the prize song I heard a quick drawn breath and turned to my aunt. Her eyes were closed, but the tears were glistening on her cheeks…” Aunt Georgiana as soon as she heard the sweet melody she remembered a memory from long ago in her youth. She began to cry because she remembers how much she loves music and what it does for the soul. By the end of the Wagner Matinee the music let all of the stuff that she left behind flow back into her heart in waves. The short story “A Wagner Matinee” states that “My Aunt wept quietly, but almost continuously.” She wept because she knew that she would have to leave all of this behind once again when the show was over, and she didn’t know if she could handle that. Another excerpt from “A Wagner Matinee” is “I don’t want to go, Clark, I don’t want to go!” This quote really shows the power that music has on the soul and it emphasizes what the quote earlier in the passage is conveying. So What? What does the theme from a story about pioneer settlers have to do with us today? Music affects our everyday lives. When your day has taken a turn for the worst, and you turn on the radio, within five minutes your entire mood changes. Then you feel like you can triumph over what brought you down in the first place. That is how music can be a powerful tool when lifting your
“Soon after the tenor began the prize song I heard a quick drawn breath and turned to my aunt. Her eyes were closed, but the tears were glistening on her cheeks…” Aunt Georgiana as soon as she heard the sweet melody she remembered a memory from long ago in her youth. She began to cry because she remembers how much she loves music and what it does for the soul. By the end of the Wagner Matinee the music let all of the stuff that she left behind flow back into her heart in waves. The short story “A Wagner Matinee” states that “My Aunt wept quietly, but almost continuously.” She wept because she knew that she would have to leave all of this behind once again when the show was over, and she didn’t know if she could handle that. Another excerpt from “A Wagner Matinee” is “I don’t want to go, Clark, I don’t want to go!” This quote really shows the power that music has on the soul and it emphasizes what the quote earlier in the passage is conveying. So What? What does the theme from a story about pioneer settlers have to do with us today? Music affects our everyday lives. When your day has taken a turn for the worst, and you turn on the radio, within five minutes your entire mood changes. Then you feel like you can triumph over what brought you down in the first place. That is how music can be a powerful tool when lifting your