Song: “Bless the Broken Road” by Rascal Flatts “Bless the Broken Road” is a song that describes the emotions I felt as I received my rejection letter. The school I was attending only went up to 6th grade so we had to apply to other schools. I applied to 3 schools but the school I really wanted to enroll in was University School of Nashville. The main reason I wanted to go was because my best friend, Milly, was going. The letter arrived in the mail and I ripped the paper to shreds disregarding what my mom said about waiting for her to get home. As I read the letter tears pooled in the corner of my eyes waiting to fall. “That every long lost dream” represents what was going through my mind. I thought my life was over. I felt like the biggest failure that I couldn’t get in to the school of my dreams. Then Milly called me excited that she got in and I couldn’t help but cry so hard I could barely breathe. I was so …show more content…
I was in Tybee Island for a school trip when they called my teacher. I was dissecting a squid with my classmates; we were using the ink bags to write our name. My teacher called me outside to talk and I was paranoid that I was in trouble. The teacher looked at me with a sad face and I was confused at what she was sad about. She then told me that my uncle had died from a stroke. The funeral was the following Wednesday. I returned home on Monday. We couldn't believe that one day you could be fine and the next day not. " I just can't stand to see you leaving/ but Heaven couldn't wait for you" these lyrics describe the only logical explanation of why God took him away from away his family. When he was being buried his only daughter, Mika, didn't want him to be buried. " So go on, home" represents the moment my family came to piece and let him go home. In summary, " Heaven" represents the confusion but later acceptance my family we through in the event of my uncle's
All of this happiness and sunshine also contributes to the feeling that there is a looming black cloud ahead. Another emotion portrayed through the narrators language is disappointment.... ... middle of paper ... ... Graduating the eighth grade was no longer the exciting event she had planned it to be - it had turned into a disaster.
” sings Hall in the first verse. He’s remembering an old friend of his that may have passed, or maybe a connection that was broken or slowly faded away. He wants to see this person, and he’s asking himself why that’s such a bad thing. This is a relatable and hard-hitting line; who hasn’t thought about someone from their past and wished they could see them again?
Johnny Cash can be considered one of the best country artists of all times, but the soul of his music is rooted in the blues. Many of Cash’s songs are about the complications that come with love. The four songs listed above are only a few parts of the story Cash teaches us about the world of love. Most importantly, Cash does a wonderful job of explaining the complicated nature of love and how it really is the most powerful force in the world. Before diving into each of these songs, one must first understand how Cash is a blues artist just as much as he is a country artist.
Rather it represented my efforts. Tackling an unideal situation head-on and using the distress it caused me as motivation are the trademarks of a growth mindset. People who have a growth mindset, in comparison to those with a fixed mindset, tend to have a better idea of who they are because they recognize their strengths and weaknesses (Dweck 11). Taking into account of their weaknesses is only part of the picture. Actively seeking to improve upon their faults, is what truly differentiates someone who believes that traits can be cultivated or are already carved in stone. Pushing past my failures produced success. That being said, how did I end freshman year fearlessly taking on new challenges to graduating high school as a content, unimproved writer?
I looked around at everyone in the room and saw the sorrow in their eyes. My eyes first fell on my grandmother, usually the beacon of strength in our family. My grandmother looked as if she had been crying for a very long period of time. Her face looked more wrinkled than before underneath the wild, white hair atop her head. The face of this once youthful person now looked like a grape that had been dried in the sun to become a raisin. Her hair looked like it had not been brushed since the previous day as if created from high wispy clouds on a bright sunny day.
In the final verse e sings about being all grown up with three daughters. He would let them drive an old worn out jeep around the pasture at his home. He hopes thy will pull out that memory and think of him and smile. All dads hope for that.
Before, I could even take note, it was already October. It was time for me to pack everything in my room, and say my final goodbyes to my family members. I was going to leave everything that meant a lot to me behind. Previously, before October, we picked up my dad from the airport so that he could help us load all of our belongings to the U-Haul truck. Lily, ‘my cousin’, (we aren’t related, she is just a very close friend who I consider family) was staying with use because she want to see her father, who was also living in Denver. My mom and dad, sister, uncle, cousin, and I all stayed at the house one last night. I remember that my sister said that all her friends gathered around my mom’s car to wave goodbye to her. Her closest friends got very emotional and they started to cry. Not only did the move affect me, it also affected my sister greatly. It was like someone had given her a punch in the stomach. By the next day, we had everything in the U-Haul truck, and it was time for me to leave my precious Vegas behind. We had now started the drive to
I was a typical 6th grader with a love for social time and hatred towards pointless homework. As I was tapping my foot on my creaking wooden desk with my book opened pretending to read, Mr. Daniels was watching over me like a bird that just gave birth to chicken eggs. I had a feeling she was going to ask me a question about what I was reading. I realized from that point on to always trust my instincts. Mrs. Daniels tall toothpick shaped body leaned over and asked me to summarize the first chapter in front of the whole class. Due to not even beginning to read the first page I told her I did not even know where to begin. Since I was not prepared for class, not participating, and being rude about my task at hand I received a punishment. My punishment was every week I had to write a summary in my own words about the chapter I had read. My eyes rolled in the back of my head so far I didn't know if they would ever go back to normal. I knew my life was over at this
Honor to Us All" is a song that carries very similar concepts to the scene where the matchmaker arranges for Lindo Jong to marry Huang Taitai to where she is receiving training on how to be a good wife. In the story, Lindo is matched with Huang Taitai, a local boy from a wealthy family. After a flood destroys the house she is living in, her family decides that it is time for her to live in the household where she will eventually be with her future husband. Servants at the house teach her to cook, sew, and do several other tasks a wife should “know how to do.” The song "Honor to Us All" talks about how a girl can honor her family “by striking a good match,” and by a girl “bearing sons.”
There are many phrases that have several different meanings and interpretations. One phrase is slightly more difficult to decipher; the title of Tim McGraw’s latest hit “Humble and Kind”. The songwriter, Lori Mckenna, takes important characteristics people should possess and incorporates them into a song. This song describes many life situations and is directed toward the general youth of today. McKenna writes while thinking of her children and the life lessons they should learn (Lyrics Uncovered). McGraw then puts them into a melody that is calm, as if he is teaching as he sings. The single “Humble and Kind” is packed full of life lessons for all to hear.
Millay chooses to construct her poems by making the narrative as personal, internal, and articulate as humanly possible for the reader. Her ability to engage the reader in reflecting not only on the characters notion of self, but also their own, is made possible by her realistic and accessible construction of selfhood within her poems. Millay writes about an internal reaction the speaker has when discovering, in a public setting, that her lover has died. The speaker does not show actual emotions as much as she offers up hypothetical ways in which people would most likely expect her to react. Yet, she seems unaffected emotionally. By using the description of common expressions of emotion as examples but not physical actions, Millay may be hinting that an awareness selfhood is an inner understanding...
One of my all-time favorite songs that tells a story is, "Love Like Crazy," by Lee Brice. This song tells about how Lee Brice went through life and how he made it through with the love of his life. "Be a best friend, tell the truth, and overuse ‘I love you,’ go to work, do your best, don`t out smart your common sense, never let your praying knees get lazy, and love like crazy," is a meaningful line from the lyrics of the song. This line of the lyrics tells how a person can get through life through the good and bad times. More people in this world should take this song as advice for life. I have listened to this song over a thousand times, and I get more out of it each time I listen to it. I relate to this song`s story because I am living this story right now in my life. I was seventeen when I found the love of my life. Everyone around me told me I was crazy, and I had no clue what love was. I have proven them wrong so far because I have been with the love of my life for four years now. Also, I am a child grew up with nothing and I have learned that I have to work for what I what in life. I have worked since I was fifteen, and I have loved every minute of it. I also am one who will follow my dreams even if everyone around me is telling me that I cannot do it, or I am not able to do it. This song`s story has been an inspiration to me in many
The song “Take me to Church” by the artist Hozier, though a popular song, is filled to the brim with many types of analogies, symbols, and social struggles. He explains the trials and opposition that a homosexual individual goes through throughout his/her life by explaining the strong bias of government, religion, and other world views as the song progresses. He successfully creates a beautiful and catchy song on the outside, all the while holding a deeper meaning of the clash of what is accepted and what he believes. In order to connect the symbols to one another, you must first know the overall meaning of the text.
Memories and emotions are something we hold so dear and near to our hearts, and it would be such a dull life without them. The author did an outstanding job of showing me just how important having both of these things in my life truly
the words of a sad song, where the words have no meaning. My life had