Songs of Innocence and of Experience

to adulthood, is often associated with one’s struggle to become unique and create a bright future. A stage in life full of self-discovery and an acceptance of the responsibilities of adulthood, adolescence can be a daunting, yet truly fulfilling experience. In the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and in the 2013 film The Spectacular Now, Holden Caulfield and Sutter Keely, two high school seniors, struggle to accept the inevitability of growing up, and they illustrate their…

Sierra Leone at a slave factory. It was here that he is poorly treated by his Master’s black mistress. It was throughout these two years of misery that many slaves befriended him and aided him through this dark gestation. Despite his own horrid experience he still considered the slave trade to be an honorable profession for a gentleman to engage in. In the future he started to captain slave vessels himself. It was during this career that he began to pray for his “cargo”. This was the…

describe the author’s improvised memories of the Vietnam War, they include female characters that portray a significant part of the novel. Specifically, three females; Martha, Mary and Linda. Martha expresses love and danger; Mary Anne Bell loss of innocence, and Linda memory and death. Despite the fact that the stories revolve mainly around how the Vietnam War changed the lives of the male soldiers fighting in it, female characters represent significant human values and emotions. The first…

The story of Swami and Friends revolves around a young boy named Swaminathan and his different activities with his friends. Life for Swami consists mainly of having escapade with his friends, avoiding the misery of homework, and coping as best as he can with the teachers and other adults he encounters. His greatest passion is the MCC—the Malgudi Cricket Club which he founds together with his friends, his greatest day is when the examination are over and school breaks- up- a time to celebrations…

listening experience can be, there is so much about a person that can be learned, just knowing what they listen to. For my interview, I have chosen local rap artist Nati Denu to explain to me how music has shaped his identity. Being both a creator and a listener he offers a unique view on how music has shaped his identity and how others identities are shaped by music, most notably those who listen to rap music. In Nati’s own words, “I identify with rap by giving it priority in my…

these failures are the “daily wounding” that continues to nail Christ to the “eternal Cross” of the poem’s title. In one of Jennings’ early collections, Song for a Birth or Death a sequence of poems entitled “The Clown”, the circus clown becomes a clear image of the crucified Christ. The similarity is apparent in a variety of terms that include innocence “you seem like one not fallen from grace”, “helplessness” and the “acceptance of suffering “the seeming surrender…. the acceptance of loss”, as…

off the path because it is dangerous and there are wolves in the woods and she doesn’t want her daughter to get hurt. In both short stories and the song “Hello Little Girl” from Into the Woods Little Red is being very polite to the wolf and tells him where her grandmother’s house is. The common theme we see is one of good versus evil. In the song “Hello Little Girl”, the wolf acts very kind towards Little Red and she…

In the poems “Fern Hill” by Dylan Thomas and “in-Just” by e. .e cummings they focus largely on the concepts of growing up. The concept of losing one’s innocence is shown in both of these poems through the realizations in the last stanzas. That is when both of the authors realized that the innocence has been lost and things are not as they once thought that they were. Both of the authors told stories of their past to exemplify this, both poems I believe are written from the perspective of an…

only exists but thrives. These novels portray the continual degradation of the characters who experience abuse through a continual violation of their privacy and vulnerability which allows oppressors to feel empowered and continue to prey on others, both in real life and in literature. In real life, humanity creates chaos which plagues the world. Regina Spektor, a singer, captures this idea in her song “The Trapper and the Furrier,” which captures corruption and the greed of companies as they…

album “Girls Gone Wild” is one song that really focused on the trial and tribulation that cause children to runaway. The vocal support of Mary J and the structure of how Ludacris rhymes tells the story of three young girls that runaway from their children is what makes the song powerful and gets their point across clearly.…