In the passage from The Cellist of Sarajevo, Steven Galloway writes the effects the cellist has on Kenan through his music. As the city lingers in war, a cellist brings a unique gift to the table. Galloway develops this gripping scene with mood, imagery, suspense and foreshadowing to make it engaging and exciting for the readers to read.
Galloway keeps up a melancholy yet optimistic mood for the readers throughout the scene. The mix of emotions makes this writing distinct from other writings because the mood is more favorable for readers. He states “Kenan watches as his city reheals itself,” which suggests a positive and a more hopeful tone. In addition, he also states “like he used to when they were much younger.” This quotations carries a more melancholy mood with it. This combination of emotion, from being sad to hopeful, creates a subtle mood within a reader which keeps readers interested in the scene. Thus making the story more likely for readers to never forget about.
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He states “ [Kenan] watches as the cellist’s hair smoothes itself out, his beard disappears. A dirty tuxedo become clean, shoes polished bright as mirrors.” The details of images tells readers how beautifully the music impacts Kenan and his surrounding. As he later states “The scars of bullets and shrapnel are covered by plaster and paint, and Windows reassemble, clarify, and sparkle as the sun reflects off glass.” This quotation is how galloway succeeds in creating a subtle mood by the use of imagery, which is attractive and eye catching to the
Throughout the life of an individual most people would agree that dealing with tough conflict is an important part in growing as a person. In “The Cellist of Sarajevo” all the characters experience a brutal war that makes each of them struggle albeit in different ways. Each of them have their own anxieties and rage that eventually makes them grow as characters at the end of the book. Steven Galloway’s novel “The Cellist of Sarajevo” exemplifies that when an individual goes through a difficult circumstance they will often struggle because of the anger and fear they have manifested over time. The conflict that the individual faces will force them to reinforce and strengthen their identity in order to survive.
Throughout her essay, Beard uses imagery almost every single sentence. She describes her work place, her daily life, her colleagues.... clearly so that her readers can picture what she is talking about. There are also hidden context under her description as
The mood in this book reflects the mood of a teenager this helps the reader understand the main character Ethan Palmer.
This extract emphasises the lonely, outworld feeling that would have been felt living in such settings. This puts into perspective the feeling that will be felt during the coarse of the plot development.
Courtenay contrasts Peekay’s gloomy childhood experience with his courageous young-adult life to emphasize the strong emotional impact of environment on one’s life. Being someone that often moves around different places, Peekay meets a variety of people and experiences different things. Courtenay uses Peekay an example to demonstrate the direct effect of environment on one’s life.
...Jamie Lockhart and hundreds of people would watch. When he could carry a "dozen oxen" and "laugh at the Indians" (Welty 9). Clement and Mike feel out of place in the new situations they were placed in. The ones that long for the past are the ones that are afraid of the present and future. Clement has a change of attitude the end of the story. After the death of his heartless and ugly wife and he knows his daughter is safe and happy, he looks forward to the future. The characters that succeed in the story are the ones that are able to adjust to there new surroundings and not wholly in a glorious past.
The tone is set in this chapter as Krakauer uses words to create an atmosphere of worry, fear, and happiness in McCandless’s mind. “The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that cares nothing for hope or longing”(4). McCandless is on the path of death, which creates worry and fear for the young boy. “He was determined. Real gung ho. The word that comes to mind is excited,” (6). Alex is very excited and care free, which Krakauer used to his advantage in making the tone of Alex’s mind happy. The author creates tones to make the reader feel the moment as if the readers were sitting there themselves. Krakauer uses dialogue and setting to create the mixed tones of this chapter. As one can see from the quotes and scenery the author uses tones that are blunt and are to the point to make the reader feel as though the emotions are their own. Krakauer uses plenty of figurative language in this chapter. He uses figurative language to support his ideas,to express the surroundings, and tone around the character. To start the chapter he uses a simile describing the landscape of the area, “…sprawls across the flats like a rumpled blanket on an unmade bed,” (9). This statement is used to make reader sense the area and set the mood for the chapter. The use of figurative language in this chapter is to make a visual representation in the readers mind. “It’s satellites surrender to the low Kantishna plain” (9).
Fife’s poetry uses modern language with wording clearly understood by her audience. This approach of using simple, modern language gives the interpretation that Fife is wanting to attract a youth audience, or young adults to read her poetry. Strong imagism is a concept that is used in all three of the poems. This concept of imagism is used to make the reader feel empathy towards the characters within the poem as well as give the reader a vibrant image of what is happening to said characters. In her poem “This is not a Metaphor” it is said:
Since the beginning of civilization and even before, humans have been consumed by war. “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you” (Galloway 0) a quote by Lean Trotsky acknowledged by Galloway in the epigraph of the book. He is saying that you do not have to want a war to end up in one. Generation after generation learns the hard horrors of war. A warring civilization is like a destroyed building it can be rebuilt but what made up that building can never be replaced. In Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo and Pat Barker’s The Ghost Road war causes irreparable damage. The effects of damage range from the loss of one’s identity including sanity and loss of humanity that leaves civilization merely a ghost of what it
Composers have the ability to use their texts as an effective medium to provide insight into controversial issues. This gives them great power to share stories and opinions that can influence audience’s perspectives. The use of distinctively visual techniques in John Misto’s Shoe-Horn Sonata and Joe Rosenthal’s “Raising of the flag on Iwo Jima “gives the ability for both composers to contrast the issues that were faced in World War II. Misto’s text provides a dark perspective which presents the hardship of war through the story of two captured female nurses. This is contrasted with Rosenthal’s text which challenges the audience by idealising the heroism and teamwork associated with war through an iconic photograph.
...is story, Hemingway brings the readers back the war and see what it caused to human as well as shows that how the war can change a man's life forever. We think that just people who have been exposed to the war can deeply understand the unfortunates, tolls, and devastates of the war. He also shared and deeply sympathized sorrows of who took part in the war; the soldiers because they were not only put aside the combat, the war also keeps them away from community; people hated them as known they are officers and often shouted " down with officers" as they passing. We have found any blue and mournful tone in this story but we feel something bitter, a bitter sarcasm. As the war passing, the soldiers would not themselves any more, they became another ones; hunting hawks, emotionless. They lost everything that a normal man can have in the life. the war rob all they have.
Thesis: In Steven Galloway's “The Cellist of Sarajevo,” the city is symbolic for the occurrences in its citizen’s lives. As the city's symbols for pride deteriorate with the effects of war, so do the character's symbols. Both the city and the citizen’s are faced with inner conflict, that, unless they can overcome, will destroy their very core. Finally, with the grace and healing power of the cellist's music, both the city and the citizen's lives can be seen as they previously were, and reclaim themselves.
He has grown up in the backwash of a dying city and has developed into an individual sensitive to the fact that his town’s vivacity has receded, leaving the faintest echoes of romance, a residue of empty piety, and symbolic memories of an active concern for God and mankind that no longer exists. Although the young boy cannot fully comprehend it intellectually, he feels that his surroundings have become malformed and ostentatious. He is at first as blind as his surroundings, but Joyce prepares us for his eventual perceptive awakening by mitigating his carelessness with an unconscious rejection of the spiritual stagnation of his community. Upon hitting Araby, the boy realizes that he has placed all his love and hope in a world that does not exist outside of his imagination. He feels angry and betrayed and comes to realize his self-deception, describing himself as “a creature driven and derided by vanity”, a vanity all his own (Joyce). This, inherently, represents the archetypal Joycean epiphany, a small but definitive moment after which life is never quite the same. This epiphany, in which the boy lives a dream in spite of the disagreeable and the material, is brought to its inevitable conclusion, with the single sensation of life disintegrating. At the moment of his realization, the narrator finds that he is able to better understand his particular circumstance, but, unfortunately, this
Because the sentimental novel appeals to the reader’s emotions, many of its scenes may strike the modern reader as overly dramatic. Baldwin claims "the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel; the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent inhumani...
Krop for all the beautiful song she played, I 'd finally convinced my dad to buy me a keyboard for my birthday. I did everything I could to learn to play, resorting to teaching myself because my family couldn 't afford to get me a lessons. I never let the fact that I can 't read music stop me from wanting to play beautiful music like my teacher did every class for us. Because of this I learned to play music by ear and sight using mimicry an observation. So as I sat down to come up with this piece I would be composing I allowed my feelings of conflict and stereotyping to sway within me providing me with the ability to tell the story intended with my music. My composition needed conflict, yet compromise between each measure, a back and forth then ending in resolution. I intended my music to begin slowly and gloomy progress thought phases of ups and downs, good and bad, right and wrong, yet end with heighten satisfaction and a compelling tale but on to that