The theme of “How to Save a Life” by The Fray is about someone who lost their friend to suicide and how both people struggled. The song was made as a reminder that no one is perfect, and even though you may not see it, everyone struggles somehow. The title itself says a lot. This grabs the listener’s attention and makes them wonder what the song is about. After listening or reading the song, we all can interpret it differently. This theme is shown through none other than the lyrics. The Fray starts off the song by saying “Step one, you say we need to talk/ He walks, you say sit down, it’s just a talk/ He smiles politely back at you/ You stare politely right on through,” these lyrics show how close the friends are to where he can see right through his “happy and nothing is wrong act”. Some examples of conflicts that the friends faced was, “As he goes left, you stay right/ …show more content…
The friend that the song is about tries to ignore his feelings, yet also acknowledges them at the same time. There are many lyrics in the song that indicate that this problem was in the past and shows repetition throughout the poem, such as, “Where did I go wrong/ I lost a friend/ Somewhere along the bitterness/ And I would’ve stayed up with you all night/ Had I known how to save a life.” The lines, “Drive until you lose the road/ Or break with the ones you’ve followed,“ are both a flashback and symbolize of when things started getting out of control. “He will do one of two things/ He will admit to everything/ Or he’ll say he’s just not the same/ And you begin to wonder why you came,” these lyrics go back to the subject of the song and the author’s conflicts. He went to help the friend out, but made him more confused, so he doesn’t know what to do anymore. The lyrics show how much he cared about his friend, but it also showed the lack of communication, and what the result of that
The emotions that are found in the song is him feeling hopeless and unable to do anything. The song states, “It’s hard to beat the system when we’re standing at a distance.” This goes back to the song because he is afraid of doing something so he stands back from the problem. The song also states, “Now if we had the power to bring our neighbors
The song “1800 273 8255” by Logic featuring Alessia Cara and Khalid, is a song about suicide prevention. He titled the song 1800 273 8255 because he wants someone to say “I do feel this way this is inspiring me, let me call this number Logic is an american rapper that loves to rap with a message. When Logic would go over to fans houses fans would always tell him that his music had saved their life and he would say to himself “Man I wasn't even trying to say anybody's life” and then it hit him and he thought “what would happen if I actually did”.In this song Logic wants to show that suicide is not the answer to your problems, that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Logic says that he thinks that this song was a record that was years in the making.
You can tell a lot about a story by its title. Some might say that this is judging a book by its cover, however a title is basically an overview of the entire story, summarized in less than ten words. Flannery O’Connor’s (1925-1964) story, The Life you save May be Your Own, has a gargantuan title. From this title, you can infer that the ending of this story is a life changing one. This story has a very grotesque theme. However, it takes place in a very well light area, which shows a lot of contrast to the dark theme. In this story, its starts off with a man who has had an exciting past meet with a family who has most certainly not. He seems nice, but throughout the story, the characters show their true colors. By the end, the story takes a sharp turn from blissful to outrageous. There are three reasons why the title of Flannery O’ Connor’s story, The Life You Save May be Your Own, relates so well to the text.
Why Dylan Thomas and Emily Dickinson used a theme of death in their poem and what are the effects of the metaphorical expressions.
Many people in this world have no true friends and those that do have very few. A true friend could have seen that something was not right with this man. Perhaps the first speaker in the poem thinks that he was closer to the second then he actually was.
There are many different themes in, “Love Medicine” a book written by Louise Erdrich. Some of which are poverty, family, racism, and religion. The one that I am going to write about, is love. Love is one of the most prominent themes in this book. It conveys a mother’s love for her children, a wife’s love for her husband, and a son’s love for the ones whom he perceives his parents to be. This is but to name a few examples of love found in the book by Ms. Erdrich. However, there is also the lack of love that this work of literature portrays. There is mistreatment and betrayal, which are examples that are opposite of love.
Music has its own way of sharing messages and portraying a theme The song Titanium is about a girl who repetitively says how strong she is and no matter what she won't fall and if she does she will get back up. In this song, the author uses metaphors, and repetition to drive the theme of “Don't let anyone bring you down because you are strong and powerful.”
In essence, this song carries various sociological concepts. It concentrates on the main idea about the social construction of reality and talking about how reality is changing. The song questions the actions and mentally of individuals violating the norms and values of society. The band takes into consideration various factors of why it is happening including the media and religion. As a result they talk about such influences taking control building and developing a sense of self. This is a great song about present day problems and how society changes with them.
In this song The Fray takes great effort to convey the point of talking with the youth of today about making the correct decisions that will have a large affect upon one's life. Although the song in no way forces the narrators thoughts and ideas upon the youth they still firmly instill the knowledge of his choices impact on his future. Ideally this would be a guideline, an alarm of hope, a script on how to one day "save a life."
The person in this song feels stressed out by life in general. He says his life is crazy and it seems that he only has time for himself. To make his life less stressful I think it would help if he would think about other people. It also talks about a race in the song. This race could be a hundred different things. I think it is either a racecar race, because the song says he is going 90 miles an hour. This race could also be metaphorical and just means his life is crazy enough to be a race, but either way this can still be stressful. When someone has way too much on their mind, it can get pretty crazy and hectic. Sometimes all we need to calm down or destress is to turn to the Lord, which is what the person in this song does. The person in
In the novel The Road and the film The Revenant the theme of survival is shown by The Man, The Boy and Hugh Glass scavenging food and using things such as a horse carcass, blankets and fire to prevent hyperthermia. Survival is the state or fact of continuing to live or exist. This essay will argue how The Revenant and The Road both compare to the theme survival. Also in the films 28 days later and The Pianist also follow the theme survival and I will compare examples to show this theme.
The Taxi, by Amy Lowell, is an Imagist poem that relies heavily on imagery, rather than abstract ideas, to reveal meaning to the reader. The author uses free verse to allow the images and lines to speak for themselves and stand alone as individual lines. By doing so, each line offers its own tone and meaning, which then adds to the overall feel of the poem. Lowell wrote this poem to a love interest, clearly stating the meaning of the poem. She speaks as if the reader is the one being called after. The reader is entranced in her short poem filled with imagery to set the mood; the dire, last goodbye that seemed to separate the two forever. The poet's love for this person was also shown in her other works, and has made it very clear that there was a connection (Highleyman). This connection reveals the theme to be that she is lost without love. Before breaking the poem down into fragments for a line-by-line analysis, it can first be analyzed as a whole.
The two roads presented in this poem represent difficult decisions we are faced with in life. He uses the relationship between the paths and real life decisions throughout the whole poem. This is an example of extended metaphor, which is used to help the readers understand the analogy between the two. The man in the poem said: “long I stood” (3), which lets us know the decision was not made instantly. It was hard for the man to make a final judgment.
In the poem, “The Road Not Taken”, the speaker has to make a big decision in his life. This poem talks about a person who comes across an intersection or a fork in the road and he has to choose which way to follow. The road is a metaphor of the choices we make in life. As the speaker ponders his choices, he feels strongly that whatever “road” he takes will be for good. So he must weigh his decision well in order to come up with the best choice and not end up regretting it. The speaker considers his thought wisely. He says, “And looked down as far as I could / To where it bent in the undergrowth”, by giving it a proper thought he weighs his choices well and in the end, chooses to follow the road “less traveled”. “The Road Not Taken” signifies a difficult choice in a person’s life that could offer him an easy or hard way out. There is no assurance of what lies ahead; if there will be success or sorrows. But a person has to take risk making up his mind about which way to choose because this is the first step of head...
This poem is one of many written by Frost in 1916 and it is commonly used in high school writing classes. It has been written about frequently and often analyzed because of the connection people feel to the poem for the reason that everyone has to make life choices. The reading of the poem touches a wide variety of readers because each one can identify with the writers predicament of having to make a choice, with two different options, as in the poem which road to take either the well-traveled path or as he decides the less journeyed. As an outcome of this choice, the writer states, that his life was profoundly different than it would have been had he taken the other road. The other road the more traveled and seemingly the safer of the two makes the reader seem more fearless to except what the unknown has to offer thus making his own way in the world. In reading further the roads are almost the same both being beautiful and equally passable. The writer tries to explain why things happened the way they did and that is a significant moment in his life. One might pick the road that gets them to w...