I'd like to make this blog entry a response to Brian's post about the connection to "I'll be There for You" by the Rembrandts. First off, I just want to say that it's an awesome song. I agree with Brian's analysis of the connection. His first point was that the song and the short story both share the same theme. This is very true as the song was used on the sitcom "Friends", which immediately tells us that the song is about friendship. Brian's next point is about the line "I'll be there for you, when the rain starts to pour", and I agree with his point that the girls will basically always be there for each other, even when their parents don't allow them to be together. This shows true friendship. His next point, however, isn't a connection in my opinion. He says that "Your mother warned you there'd be days like these" connects to the protagonists mother tell her not to hang around Best Friend. However, the line in the lyrics is saying that the mother warned ahead of time that this would happen, which Brian seems to have misunderstood (no offense Brian if you're reading this).
Now I'd like to comment on Brian's overall blog entry writing. I like the fact that Brian wrote his blog entry like a real blog entry; that's to say that he wrote it in first person and he wrote it as if people were actually reading it. After reading this project's description I expected some people to write the blog as if it's a report, which Brian didn't. I thoroughly enjoyed reading his entry because it wasn't boring and straightforward like a report.
This is my last blog entry. I hope you enjoyed reading it, because I didn't enjoy writing it (just kidding). BYE!
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Post 3 - Connection 2
This second connection really took a lot of thinking and flipping through my song library to find, but I finally got it. The song I chose this time is "Don't Matter" by Akon. Again, the connection to the short story is only found in the chorus due to the rest of the song being about the singer's wrong deeds done against his girl. So anyway, the chorus to the song is as follows:
Nobody wanna see us together
But it don't matter no
'Cause I got you babe
Nobody wanna see us together
But it don't matter no
'Cause I got you babe
'Cause we gon' fight
Oh yes we gon' fight
Believe we gon' fight
We gonna fight
Fight for our right to love yeah
Nobody wanna see us together
But it don't matter no
'Cause I got you
The first line is very obviously connected to the story because both parents of the best friends don't want their children spending time together anymore. The next two lines are also significantly related to the story because although the two best friends have been banned from seeing each other, they don't care and their friendship lives on. When it says
"Cause we gon' fight, Oh yes we gon' fight, Believe we gon' fight, We gonna fight, Fight for our right to love yeah", it relates to the short story because the two best friends are obviously too close to allow something as insignificant as religious differences (insignificant to them, of course) to keep them apart, and they're going to keep fighting to keep their strong relationship going. This may seem a bit off topic but I find that these close relationships are becoming more and more scarce as we grow because everyone keeps going their separate ways and friendship is becoming more and more of a disposable thing. Friends disappear as we grow older and move on in life, and the only friendships that survive are the strongest friendships because they keep fighting to keep their relationship going.
So again, I hope you made the same connection that I did, and sorry if I made too much of a depressive point in that last paragraph.
Nobody wanna see us together
But it don't matter no
'Cause I got you babe
Nobody wanna see us together
But it don't matter no
'Cause I got you babe
'Cause we gon' fight
Oh yes we gon' fight
Believe we gon' fight
We gonna fight
Fight for our right to love yeah
Nobody wanna see us together
But it don't matter no
'Cause I got you
The first line is very obviously connected to the story because both parents of the best friends don't want their children spending time together anymore. The next two lines are also significantly related to the story because although the two best friends have been banned from seeing each other, they don't care and their friendship lives on. When it says
"Cause we gon' fight, Oh yes we gon' fight, Believe we gon' fight, We gonna fight, Fight for our right to love yeah", it relates to the short story because the two best friends are obviously too close to allow something as insignificant as religious differences (insignificant to them, of course) to keep them apart, and they're going to keep fighting to keep their strong relationship going. This may seem a bit off topic but I find that these close relationships are becoming more and more scarce as we grow because everyone keeps going their separate ways and friendship is becoming more and more of a disposable thing. Friends disappear as we grow older and move on in life, and the only friendships that survive are the strongest friendships because they keep fighting to keep their relationship going.
So again, I hope you made the same connection that I did, and sorry if I made too much of a depressive point in that last paragraph.
Post 2 - Connection 1
After thinking about how to connect this short story to something, a song popped into my head. It took me a minute to think about but I realized that the song actually does relate to the short story. The song is a Grammy award-winning song from 1992 called "End of the Road" by Boyz II Men. The song itself is about the singer and someone they were involved with being at the "end of the road" of their relationship, and how it's unnatural for them to be apart. It's mainly the chorus that relates to the short story because the rest of the song is just the guy talking to his girl about how much he still loves her, which obviously doesn't relate to the short story. The first two lines of the chorus goes "Although we've come to the end of the road, still I can't let you go". This is basically the state of mind that the protagonist was in when her parents told her that she could no longer hang out with her best friend. Due to the fact the protagonist raged at her parents, broke a remote control, and ran to look at Selam's house every opportunity she got, it's clear that she was in no way able to let go of her best friend. The next line of the chorus goes "It's unnatural, you belong to me, I belong to you". This also was probably was going through the protagonist's head because they were in every way designed to be happy while around each other. Best friend's don't come around very often, especially really good ones like Selam, so as such they find it unnatural to be around anyone else but each other.
Anyone who read this blog entry and also sees the connection, I just have to say good for you. Anyone who actually knows the song, you're awesome. Thanks.
Anyone who read this blog entry and also sees the connection, I just have to say good for you. Anyone who actually knows the song, you're awesome. Thanks.
Post 1 - Review
First off, I just have to admit that I found this short story rather difficult to understand fully. The main reason behind this is that they keep putting in random non-English words that I don't understand, mainly because I don't speak that language. However, I was able to understand most of it after reading it half a dozen times, so here's my analysis.
"What Language is That?" is a story about two best friends from different religious groups living in Ethiopia that find their friendship to be in jeopardy after their parents ban them from seeing each other again. This is quite sad because the whole story tells us about how close the two friends are (they're so close that the protagonist keeps calling her best friend "Best Friend") and how much they struggled to follow their parents' orders (they ultimately disobeyed their parents and started to communicate across the street using random gestures that the two friends deemed a new "language").
From what I understand of the story, the story focuses on how even the biggest differences cannot keep the best of friends apart. For most of the story, it seems as if the two families are rather close, the evidence being the protagonist's dad saying "That's why I like him...open-minded...nice man" about "Best Friend's" dad, but after an apparent quarrel between the two fathers about religious differences the two families go their separate ways.
In the story, there was a mentioning of a remote control that the protagonist broke while in a rage about her being banned from seeing Selam. I think this represents the breaking of a friendship. However, at the end of the story the dad says that he'll buy a new remote. I think this represents the idea that the friendship can still go on.
So for those of you who bothered to read this blog entry, thank you. I hope you enjoyed my insight on the short story.
"What Language is That?" is a story about two best friends from different religious groups living in Ethiopia that find their friendship to be in jeopardy after their parents ban them from seeing each other again. This is quite sad because the whole story tells us about how close the two friends are (they're so close that the protagonist keeps calling her best friend "Best Friend") and how much they struggled to follow their parents' orders (they ultimately disobeyed their parents and started to communicate across the street using random gestures that the two friends deemed a new "language").
From what I understand of the story, the story focuses on how even the biggest differences cannot keep the best of friends apart. For most of the story, it seems as if the two families are rather close, the evidence being the protagonist's dad saying "That's why I like him...open-minded...nice man" about "Best Friend's" dad, but after an apparent quarrel between the two fathers about religious differences the two families go their separate ways.
In the story, there was a mentioning of a remote control that the protagonist broke while in a rage about her being banned from seeing Selam. I think this represents the breaking of a friendship. However, at the end of the story the dad says that he'll buy a new remote. I think this represents the idea that the friendship can still go on.
So for those of you who bothered to read this blog entry, thank you. I hope you enjoyed my insight on the short story.
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