A Little Thing, Can Make Big Change

Authors Note: I am doing my figurative piece on the song “Don’t Worry Child” because I particularly enjoy this song and decided since I like it so much why not analyze it and maybe find out it’s true meaning.

The reason, not to life but to the inside reasons, pains, and happiness that song writers interpret into the songs they write. They make you feel different moods throughout the song. Sometimes I feel moody when I’m listening to a song that I actually can understand the lyrics to. I think the song ‘Don’t Worry Child,” by Swedish House Mafia, was written with excellent figurative language. Some songs can give people hope or make them happy. This isn’t because of the beat of the song or anything like that. It’s the figurative language, the symbolism, and the imagery. That was what causes hope, sadness, and many other feelings in a song.

Songs of happiness are the best songs for those people who are just having a bad day. In the beginning of the song “Don’t Worry Child” the lyrics talk about how he lived in a happy home. This creates an image of just parents playing with their child. Shortly after it says “I was a king I had a gold throne” which is a metaphor. Obviously as a kid he wasn’t a king and he probably didn’t have a gold throne, but the song artist is talking about his child like he was a king so he would have had a good childhood.

Many people in the world are people that say that God has turned his back on them. This is a sign of loss of hope. In this song one of the main sentences that really stands out is “My father said, don’t you worry, don’t you worry child. See heavens got a plan for you.” which really could give someone hope. It symbolizes that there is always hope. Whatever happens, whatever goes wrong for you, you just need to hold on. Life is a bumpy ride, not just a walk on the beach.

Throughout the piece a specific mood is brought up with one very powerful line, “Don’t you worry. Don’t you worry child. See Heavens got a plan for you.” This gives the song listener (or reader) a feeling or mood of hope. In the big picture of life it’s saying that even things aren’t really going your way, you shouldn’t worry or put your head down. In the end if you stay strong and don’t let anything stand in your way, everything will work out for you in the end. Everything that is supposed to happen for you will happen. This chorus that many people listen to, mostly don’t realize how powerful it really is. In just two sentences this song gives you a great amount of hope and a reason to keep going forward and to let nothing stop you from reaching your goal.

Some people listen to songs because they like the chorus, some people listen to a song to help them get through something or to get hope. Those second and third reasons are where the figurative language come in. If a song wanted to give someone hope, but without figurative language it would say something like, “Don’t lose hope” but with figurative language, like in this song it could say something like, “See Heavens got a plan for you.” The one with the figurative language is more inspirational and means a little bit more. Just like that figurative language can give someone hope, or in other cases an uncountable amount of emotions like sadness, happiness or excitement.

The Gates That Release Hell

Authors Note: I’m writing my character analysis piece on Matt from the Raven’s Gate series because his progress in changing is very interesting throughout this series.

Change, everyone goes through it, even adults, or even kids with supernatural powers like Matt. Matt is a part of something bigger than anything else in the world, but yet only few have  knowledge about it. His one of the five trying to keep the Old Ones from coming back into our world. Throughout his journey he never wants any part of what’s going on. He just wants to try to live a normal life as a normal kid, but with powers and a responsibility like his he can’t and he soon changes his attitude and realizes what his to be done.

There are many different types of people on this planet and some of them would jump at the chance to be a hero and help save lives, but then also theres the few people that don’t want any part of it. That’s the kind of person that Matt is, he doesn’t want his power, he doesn’t want to be able to break things with his mind of anything like that. He just wants to be normal and he hasn’t realized what is fully at stake with the opening of the gates.

Reading this book you may have a difficult time trying to find out when Matt changes his attitude because it happens so sudden, but on Pg.273 the narrator points out that, “A short time ago, in England, he hadn’t even wanted to go to Peru. But since then, everything has changed.” This really shows that he’s starting to grow up and realize that he can’t choose whether or not he goes with o this and helps. He really starts to take passion in what’s going on since more than a couple people have died trying to save him or help him. He ends up hating who did this and wants to kill him.

Later in the series when Matt is 15, he has already gone through so much horror that anybody would wish to wake up to it all being a dream. Matt has already assumed the role of the leader and his want to kill and his hatred for the old ones drive him. In a little more than a year Matt has gone through not wanting to take any part of it and wanting to just live a normal life. He doesn't just realize that he doesn't have a choice, his attitude for all this changes and he wants to save the world, he wants to defeat the old ones, and he wants to be the leader. Some things change you drasticly like with trauma or a little change like losing someone in your life. I don't think there is anyone who has changed more than Matt in this book. Matt is turning into that person that encourages everyone on, he leads and he leads well.

For a 14 year old boy Matt is pretty grown up, any 14 year old would have to be grown up if he is fighting to save the planet. But not many people would be excited to do this. For a while Matt and Richard, his friend, didn’t even want to go to Peru to help keep the second gate from opening and even refused a bit. But now as the narrator stated Matt has changed and knows that what he is doing has to be done. That he has no choice to accept it and do it. Matt really grows up in this series and changes for the better