Imagine graduating and moving to Hollywood with many struggles to make it big in the music industry. This is what happens in the song “Into The Great Wide Open” by Tom Petty with a character named Eddie. After high school Eddie went to Hollywood to start in the music business. ”Into The Great Wide Open” Is a narrative poem that tells the story of a young rockstar, using a shifting tone in a realistic form.
The poem “Into The Great Wide Open” tells about a character named Eddie going through stardom in hollywood. It all started when Eddie finished highschool and got a tattoo making his way to stardom he met a girl with a tattoo aswell. They both moved in together and Eddie got himself a job as a bouncer at a nightclub. She then taught him some chords on the guitar. Eddie continued his music career and was making his way to fame until he sustained that money and fame was better than living life as a musician and being serious about his job. This story describes the story about Eddie and his music career. Not only does the song involve Eddies rough start to being famous, but Tom Petty also involves a shifting tone throughout the story about Eddie, Tom Petty uses a lot of tones like an optimistic tone. Eddie showed to be a very optimistic kind of person as the story continued. He started with a girlfriend, a paying job, lots of money,
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This song is believable because a lot of the things that happened to Eddie could happen to a person in the real world. Most people could or could not find a girl right when they get to hollywood but it could happen. Also, meeting a girl with a tattoo is possible as well as getting a job as a bouncer at a nightclub in Hollywood. Some of these events could or could not appear to be true to happen to one person all in the same time but it could happen if you are with the right people at the right place and
Rosen explains how this song can be noted as turning point between the older generation of country music to bro country. I could not agree more. In the older generation, country had a much more southern feel, usually slower in speed as well. Songs like “Cruise” are prime examples of how the music industry, country music specifically, has had to make changes to entertain newer generations. I believe this is an important piece in history, and should definitely be discussed in
Almost Famous (2000) is a dramatization of writer/director Cameron Crowe’s real-life experiences as a teenage rock reporter for Rolling Stone. Based on thinly-veiled autobiographical material from the precocious beginnings of Crowe’s early career, the screenplay shapes sentimental memories into movie magic. But how did Crowe give his own coming-of-age tale such universal appeal? A closer look reveals that Almost Famous, like most films worth their salt, is yet another incarnation of the greatest and only mythological adventure, “The Hero’s Journey.” This relationship can be explained using the framework of Joseph Campbell’s phenomenal book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, along with certain terms and interpretations from The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler.
Recently he met this girl who had knew a few answers to the question he is searching for. Eddie is on a dangerous path to his investigation,but he is determine to find the killer. After his cousin is killed, Eddie's aunt pressures him to avenge her son's death. Eddie drops out of City College and works odd jobs, all the while wondering about this, the latest of the senseless killings that have become a fact of life within the community. A run of unlucky breaks adds to his frustration as he is completely caught up in the violence he disapproves
Fame, flashing lights, screaming fans. Poverty, neglectful parents, no real feeling of having a home. Even though these words paint two very different pictures, they both have one thing in common, a story of resilience. In the autobiography Facing the Music and Living to Talk About It by Nick Carter and Jeannette Walls’ memoir The Glass Castle, Carter and Walls both have internal and external factors that are the basis of their struggles, but their mental and emotional resilience helps them to overcome their hardships in an unfavorable environment.
The death camp was a terrible place where people where killed. Hitler is who created the death camp for Jews. The death camp was used for extermination on Jews. This occurred on 1939 – 1945. The death camps were in the country of Europe. Hitler did all this because he didn’t like Jews and the religions. The book Night is a autobiography written by Elie Wiesel. The poem called First they came for the communist written by Martin Neimoller is a autobiography.
In “The Outside Circle”, Pete was telling the story of himself when he was a young man. Pete came from a very difficult and broken childhood. His father left, and his mother was a drug addict and had to survive by herself with all of her children. After living a poor life for so long, now in Pete’s life he appreciates and respects the life
Firstly, Ed in seen as a kid that is not the smartest , cutest boy in town. On the other hand Ed is a taxi driver, and this would lead Ed to doing the most courageous think Ed has ever done in his life. Stopping a bank robbery which also leads to the person that mails him the playing
Everyone Eddie met in heaven taught him something about his life. They were all connected to him in different ways, whether it was someone close to him once, or a complete stranger. Somehow, all of their lives had crossed Eddie’s and helped make him the person that he had become. When you think about this lesson, you truly understand. One decision causes an effect, maybe on your life or maybe on someone else’s life. That effect will cause something else. It’s what I think of as a ripple effect. Everything happens for a reason, and all of the events that lead up to our “now” makes us who we are.
The storyline ends with Eddies ironic yet symbolic death. As “the knife turns back towards Eddie” Eddie’s own knife turning back on him evokes that Eddie is the tragic hero but was foolish. As “he dies in her arms” Eddie realises that Beatrice stood by him, this realisation ends the scene with Eddie saying “Oh B.! My B.!” Eddie was, really, a caring character but was just overcome with the feeling of jealousy and hate which quickly began to change him as person.
The first figurative language technique used is metaphor. On page 35 Eddie is going on and talking about what a good life is. “A good life is a long, busy evening of watching TV, where every third joke is actually funny.” Eddie wants simple things. He is comparing a good life to a few simple and easy things to have. This is significant, because his
"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal [but] which the reader recognizes as his own." (Salvatore Quasimodo). There is something about the human spirit that causes us to rejoice in shared experience. We can connect on a deep level with our fellow man when we believe that somehow someone else understands us as they relate their own joys and hardships; and perhaps nowhere better is this relationship expressed than in that of the poet and his reader. For the current assignment I had the privilege (and challenge) of writing an imitation of William Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 87". This poem touched a place in my heart because I have actually given this sonnet to someone before as it then communicated my thoughts and feelings far better than I could. For this reason, Sonnet 87 was an easy choice for this project, although not quite so easy an undertaking as I endeavored to match Shakespeare’s structure and bring out his themes through similar word choice.
Eddie is an anti-hero. We know Eddie is a drunk and a private investigator that hates all toons, but a few scenes in the film shed some light on why he is the way that he is. A toon killed his brother and partner. He ends up helping Roger Rabbit despite his hatred of toons. He can be rather violent, as shown in the scene where he forcedly shoves a pickled egg into a man’s mouth for badmouthing his late brother. He does not seem to have a black and white moral code like a traditional hero would. Eddie did “white knight” things but can sometimes be a bit of a sleuth.
Tom Petty’s “into the Great Wide Open,” is a narrative poem that tells us about the rise and fall of a boy named Eddie. There was a kid named Eddie ,he graduated high school and moved to California. While he was there he met a girl, she had a tattoo. She told eddie to get a tattoo. Eddie eventually moved in with this mysterious girl. He also got a job as a bouncer at a nightclub. His girl even taught him to play guitar and it became his hobby. He became so good at playing guitar that he made a record and became famous.
story wasn't what got to me, it was the lessons Eddie learns along the way as he meets
Eddie's tone at first was upbeat and positive, not only because he's becoming a success in the music career but also because he’s living his dream. He’s doing what he wanted to do for a while, so he is positive that he actually doing it and living his dream. But towards the end of the poem, he's not to upbeat, positive and happy anymore. He started partying and hanging out with famous people and forgot what he was actually in Hollywood for. His tone after that was negative and confused because after all that partying and stuff, the A&R man said the he doesn't hear a single and that's when Eddie started to realize that, the music career was not his career