Lindo Jong is in a depressed state of her life. She is forced to marry a man she does not love and basically give up her life to Hung Tai-Tai. A particularly strong point in her life is when she realizes she is a strong woman with genuine thoughts and a will to keep her parents promise. The song, “Let It Go” by Idina Menzel beautifully describes everything that is going inside Lindo’s thoughts from the moment she is feeling useless and depressed continuing to her adept realization of her true character. At the end of page 57, the song would start right where Lindo starts to cry with the lyrics, “The snow glows white on the mountain tonight / Not a footprint to be seen, / A kingdom of isolation, / and it looks like I’m the Queen,” would be playing softly in the background. The song provides a very good example of self-pity, and this relates identically to Lindo’s situation where she is unhappy of …show more content…
I was strong. I was pure.” (Tan 58). The lyrics play, “Don’t let them in, don’t let them see / Be the good girl you always have to be / Conceal, don’t feel, don’t let them know / Well now they know, relates to Lindo’s new confident behavior about her character. The song continues playing flashing forward after her marriage to Lindo moments before blowing out the red candle, and finally the main chorus of the song plays, “Let it go, let it go, can’t hold it back anymore.” Lindo then blows out the candle, symbolizing her ultimate act of defiance to her marriage and Huang Tai-Tai. The song also can be used in another different scene in the red candle where Lindo finally devises a plan to break free of her prison at a later point in the story, and describes the difference in Lindo’s thoughts and feelings perfectly throughout “The Red
...r sister saying how she'll have to help take care of her kid and how she'll probably have twins. The sixth stanza talks about how her mother comforted her and said that her sister will take on all her chores. The seventh stanza is her sister complaining of how many chores she's already doing as is. The last stanza talks about how Leda just "takes it easy" and doesn't have to do anything.
The first stanza describes the depth of despair that the speaker is feeling, without further explanation on its causes. The short length of the lines add a sense of incompleteness and hesitance the speaker feels towards his/ her emotions. This is successful in sparking the interest of the readers, as it makes the readers wonder about the events that lead to these emotions. The second and third stanza describe the agony the speaker is in, and the long lines work to add a sense of longing and the outpouring emotion the speaker is struggling with. The last stanza, again structured with short lines, finally reveals the speaker 's innermost desire to "make love" to the person the speaker is in love
The narrator is presented as this strong figure at first, but the piece tears away this wall brick by brick. In stanza six when they are coming back from Mexico, the narrator says the drugs “might help him live longer.” The biggest turn of hopelessness is in stanza 8 for the narrator. His brother falls into a coma and his brother’s lover cries in his arms and he “Wonder(s) how much longer you will be able to be strong.”(Lassell 481) It only progresses only further when the narrator says: “Offer God anything to bring your brother back. Know you have nothing God could possibly want.”(Lassell 481) The narrator becomes almost emotionless during the funeral of his brother, and it shows that this sense of hopelessness has grown even larger, to the fact where he stands in silence and stares at the casket. During the funeral, he thinks to himself “Know that your brother 's life was not what you imagined.”(Lassell
Within the song, the narrator makes many mistakes and is victim to circumstance. Many would view this as life throwing bad situations their way, or them being unlucky. Modest Mouse attempts to train the listener
“You know the lies that they always told you and the love you never knew what's the things they never showed you that swallowed the light from the sun inside your room” The first part of this verse is referring to the lies from a possible drug dealer or just the people around her in general, lies that would make a person want to do drugs and take their mind some place else. The verse is also talking about how loved she really was but no one ever really showed her love like they could have. “What’s the things they never showed you that swallowed the light from the sun inside your room.” This part is about the remorse he feels. He keeps thinking that maybe he could have helped her or done something to save her from the darkness of the drugs. The darkness took the light, the light was her life, and the darkness was the
This song talks a lot about the baggage of the past that people hold onto instead of letting it go. All that baggage is only going to end up hurting you more and more instead of helping you in any way possible. An example is the opening
In the third stanza, she then focuses on millionaires. She looks outside of her own loneliness, and compares it to the loneliness of wealthy people. Although it seems that “money is what makes the world go round”, she goes against this vi...
On the third stanza, she pretty much saying that it is not her fault that she had a abortion and she has no choice but to do it. “Since anyhow you are dead, Or rather, or instead, You were never made” (Gwendolyn Brooks) she making excuses of what she had done.
Throughout the song the tone changes from a disappointed and unsatisfied feeling until it progresses into a hopeful and maturing tone. This transformation of tone follows the story almost perfectly and allows the reader to feel a connection to the transformation of the protagonist. This transformation from “expecting the world” (line 1) to realising that some things must happen for others to come into motion “the sun must set to rise” (line 24) is especially impactful and emotional when paired with the lines “ This could be para-para-paradise, para-para-paradise” that are repeated to show her newly established happiness and maturity. Ultimately, this progression from disappointed
To begin, the episodic shifts in scenes in this ballad enhance the speaker’s emotional confusion. Almost every stanza has its own time and place in the speaker’s memory, which sparks different emotions with each. For example, the first stanza is her memory of herself at her house and it has a mocking, carefree mood. She says, “I cut my lungs with laughter,” meaning that...
Considering altogether setting, figures of speech and tone we can finally conclude what is this song is about.
Her tone in this song is at first mellow, but when she comes to the stanza of this song, she deliberately raises her voice to emphasize her genuine feelings. The tone describes her want and need for her thoughts to be truly heard. She wants the listener to capture her essence and the view of herself. In this specific stanza, she explains that s...
This song is centered on Bilbo Baggins’s, the protagonist, as he moves on after the Battle of the Five Armies, the climatic final in the novel. “The road is now calling” Bilbo to depart, but “to these memories [he] will hold” of his fallen brothers, which he had once traveled. It is time to move on, but the past will never be forgotten.
This is the song that Jose sings before the garden party is held. It’s ironic how she can sing a song about life being weary, a tear-a sigh when she cannot-could not, even remotely relate to ever being in the position of being weary. She is singing about something that she doesn’t understand, something she can’t feel. She can’t sing it with any real compassion, because she has none. This shows when she breaks into a brilliant smile at the end of the song, which is supposed to be full of sadness. This is what gives the effect of...