How we are influenced to speak up for ourselves.
The song ‘Little Me’ written by Iain James and performed by Little Mix is an extremely influential song when it comes to people speaking up for themselves. This songwriter truly captivates the audience with this song by using multiple techniques to influence the audience that speaking up for yourself will have positive outcomes.
The song ‘Little Me’ is loosely based around a woman that needs to speak up for herself and understand her true beauty, but just doesn 't have the confidence to do it. After listening to this song, specific lines really made us, as the audience feel and think about the thoughts and opinions we all have as humans however, we never let anybody else hear them as if all
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The line reads: ‘Run too fast and you risk it all, Can 't be afraid to take a fall’. This has a great influence on those listening to the song as the songwriter is trying to get the important message across to the listener that speaking up for yourself can be a risk, but it 's a risk we need to take. ‘Run too fast and you risk it all’ refers to speaking up for yourself being risky, which alone could put the listener off speaking up for him/herself but immediately after the line ‘Can’t be afraid to take a fall’ is presented to the listener by the songwriter. By using this particular line in the song, the songwriter is trying to tell the audience that you can 't be afraid of speaking up for yourself, and as it may be a risk, it is a risk we need to take to achieve in our lifetimes. After hearing this important line, which is only presented once in the entire song the listener can really understand the intention the songwriter had to influence the audience of why speaking up for yourself is indeed a good …show more content…
The songwriter strings different lines together to create this general idea, and prove the idea that speaking up causes positive outcomes to the audience. For example, the line ‘Talk a bit louder, be a bit prouder, Tell her she 's beautiful, wonderful, Everything she doesn 't see.’ is shown to the audience as words inside the woman 's head. This is extremely powerful to the Audience for the fact that they are put inside the mind on this imaginary woman. As we hear this and we think from the mind of the woman, we see that the woman has endless positive thoughts about herself in her mind, but is too afraid to let them out. This persuades the audience that this may happen in our heads and the audience is forced to think about how they can relate to this, therefore forcing the audience to become influenced to speak up for themselves.‘Talk a bit louder, be a bit prouder’ is a line used by the songwriter to try and encourage people to speak up, it is interesting how the songwriter is connecting speaking up to being proud. By connecting speaking up and being ‘proud’, the audience could see this and want to be a prouder person themselves. This would influence the audience and once again, back up the songwriters idea that speaking up can have positive
Feeling unwanted from the closest people in your life who turn away from you when you need them the most, is the worst feeling a person can endure. I chose the song “My Story” by Sean McGee, because people young and old can relate to his song. People from different backgrounds can relate to each other when there are living homeless or raised as a foster child. Sean McGee wrote “my daddy don’t know, my momma don’t care, it don’t matter if I’m here, it don’t matter if I’m dead” people all around the world have the same issues and share a common culture. A master status is the most important status a person occupies, this is a key factor in determining a person’s social position.
My first song I´ve chosen is Sean McGee, song titled My Story. Mainly the song is about him facing different struggles, obstacles, and all the horrible things and situations he´s been in throughout his life. I can connect to this song and the lyrics for many reasons. One of his lines were ¨Do you know how it feels to be left out in the rain¨? And I have faced times like this when I feel like no one is there or have my back, and in the line he´s trying express how it feels to have nobody and be all alone. Also throughout this song he expresses how everyday you wake up your face with something rather it's just a minor issue or something that will greatly impact your life.
This was from the mind of young Grealy, the girl who had a depressed and angry mother, the mother that taught her that it was never okay to show weakness or cry (Grealy 30). Young Grealy believed that the way she earned acceptance during her first visit to the ER could carry over into her home life. I think that this moment encompassed all that Grealy was feeling at this time. The feeling that she was responsible for her mother’s unhappiness and depression, the feeling that if she showed she was not afraid, no one else in her family would be either, and the feeling that if she was not brave, her family would be unhappy forever. This was important because she felt that she had discovered a way to make her family whole again.
My personal choice memoir was The World is Moving Around Me by Dany Laferrière, it was a memoir about the Haiti earthquake. Throughout the memoir Laferrière conveys not only his emotions, but his peers. His choice of words and phrases made this novel not only about the Haiti earthquake, but the country of Haiti and its people. His fixed descriptions show this event didn’t only move him physically, but mentally. Lastly, Laferrières connection to the people out side of Haiti, specifically the United States is key to show the world wide impact.
In the poem pride, Dahlia Ravikovitch uses many poetic devices. She uses an analogy for the poem as a whole, and a few metaphors inside it, such as, “the rock has an open wound.” Ravikovitch also uses personification multiple times, for example: “Years pass over them as they wait.” and, “the seaweed whips around, the sea bursts forth and rolls back--” Ravikovitch also uses inclusive language such as when she says: “I’m telling you,” and “I told you.” She uses these phrases to make the reader feel apart of the poem, and to draw the reader in. She also uses repetition, for example, repetition of the word years.
The tone in this quote contributes to the story because it supports the idea of not being afraid and moving on. It sets the mood for the readers, making it more interesting to them. According to Divergent, “It’s not about being fearless. It’s about acting in spite
She gets to the point and proves that in our current world we tend to say more than we should, when just a couple of words can do the same. In her writing, it is evident that the little sentences and words are what make the poem overall that perfect dream she wishes she were part of.
Tragic events can leave scars but they should not be allowed to define how someone lives their life. After being assaulted, Melinda decides not to talk about it and bottles up her pain, hoping to forget it. “It is easier not to say, shut your trap, button your lip, can it” (Anderson 9). In this quote, Melinda is forthright about her belief in silence. This statement defines Melinda’s behavior for most of the novel.The quote shows that Melinda does have voice she just does not want to use it outside of her own head. While Melinda recognizes that her isolation is harmful, she takes steps to reconnect to others and get help. Speaking up can get you somewhere in life.”Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, or being hated, don’t give way to hating, and yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise” (Kipling lines 6-8). This quote means things will happen to you, people talk, and you are going to lose friends, however, you cannot let this affect you. For the theme of finding one’s voice, the texts might be showing how speaking up and pushing through the awful names people call you can help you be more confident and competent. Finally, characterization is another tool Anderson and Kipling use to develop the theme of finding one’s voice and identity.
In the end, the poem is looking to show what actions can do in the long run. It teaches us to be very cautious with everything we do since it can affect the people around us. It can have good or bad
“ Her voice was a warm, luminous, timeless melody.” The girl being mentioned in this metaphor is a ballerina that specializes in ballet and dance. However, she cannot perform to her best potential because of the handicaps weighing her down. She possesses a sweet and “melodious” which shows she is unique and beautiful individual. Without these special features and traits, she becomes equal to everyone else but at the cost of her passions and individuality. Once Harrison Bergeron rips off her handicaps, she becomes free of the handicaps that restrict her from her happiness and personal lifestyle. This reveals that rebellion against the unfair handicaps creates an environment welcome to all sorts of special personalities and features that divide everyone into their own personal image. The ballerina’s voice is described a great feature to show that the handicaps can hide specialities that could potentially make someone superior to the other. This reveals the power the government has on the people on this society and how it affects everyone extremely negatively. Only after rebellion against the powerfully restricting handicaps that one can experience freedom and happiness.
Some examples of metaphor within the piece are when it says “your laughter’s so melodic it’s a song” and “your creativity’s a compass that leads you to what you love”. An example of evocative language in the piece is “you don’t need any miracle cream to keep your passions smooth, hair free or diet pills to slim your kindness down.” These metaphors and instances of evocative language help emphasise the message that it doesn’t matter what you look like, the most important thing you can love about yourself is ____. Metaphors, evocative language, and repetition are also used to describe the expectations laid upon women by society. One particular phrase that uses both metaphor and evocative language “because the only place we'll ever truly feel safe is curled up inside skin we've been taught to hate by a society that shuns our awful confidence and feeds us our flaws”. Other examples of evocative language include “a reminder that the mirror is meant to be a curse so I confine her in my mind, but when he or she shouts ‘let me out!’ we're allowed to listen.” and “Don't you shatter the illusion you could ever be anything beyond paper fine flesh and flashy teeth and fingernails.” One instance of repetition includes “echoic accusations of not good enough, never good enough”. Another phrase that uses both evocative language and repetition
In the second stanza, Piercy describes the girl as healthy, intelligent, and strong (7-8). Yet these positive equalities alone, could not keep people from criticizing her, so the girl feels inferior. “She went to and fro apologizing,” which demonstrates her collapse of confidence with the people she is surrounded with, who kept putting her down (10). She gives in to the hurtful things people say about her: “Everyone [kept] seeing a fat nose on thick legs” (11). The girl thus lets people push her in the direction of society’s standard of beauty, instead of affirming her own unique beauty.
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."
During the poem the speaker does not address his readers. The readers are simply overhearing a man assessing the society in which he lives as he daydreams about what is could be and yet what it is not. It is evident that his goal is to get the readers to look down upon this society which is so caught up in daily routine; prohibiting anyone from having freedom of imagination. This detachment that is created between the speaker and his readers incorporated with the boring monotone at the very beginning of the poem gives the readers a negative impression of the society before they begin to analyze the actual words of the poem.
This, in fact, is an example of “dynamic decomposition” of which the speaker claims she understands nothing. The ironic contradiction of form and content underlines the contradiction between the women’s presentation of her outer self and that of her inner self. The poem concludes with the line “’Let us go home she is tired and wants to go to bed.’” which is a statement made by the man. Hence, it “appears to give the last word to the men” but, in reality, it mirrors the poem’s opening lines and emphasises the role the woman assumes on the outside as well as her inner awareness and criticism. This echoes Loy’s proclamation in her “Feminist Manifesto” in which she states that women should “[l]eave off looking to men to find out what [they] are not [but] seek within [themselves] to find out what [they] are”. Therefore, the poem presents a “new woman” confined in the traditional social order but resisting it as she is aware and critical of