Saul talks about the power of music saying, “ once I discovered Dvorak’s cello concerto, I turned to it again and again through my travels to suspend the desperation clutching at my gut. Work and music sustained me for a long time.” (180)
There are a few things that sustain me. Listening to my favourite music never fails to enhance my mood and make me feel better. AS of right now, I like to listen to the Broadway musical Hamilton, written by Lin-Manuel Miranda. There’s something about this hip-hop musical about the founding fathers of the USA that just makes me genuinely happy when I listen to it. I always have the urge to belt out the lyrics, so I do of course, and then laugh at myself for being a bit of a dork afterwards. Another thing that sustains me is to watch my favourite shows or movies, to make me laugh or smile. Those are, Pacific Rim, Star Trek, The Office and Hawaii Five-0. All of those shows and movies hold a very special place in my heart, and help me smile and laugh whenever I need it the most. Music is the most important to me though, because like Saul, it helps me change my mood and sustains me when I need it.
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Saul writes, “it wasn’t a yearning for new geography that drove me - it was my tiredness of the old. The bush ceased to be a haven. A vacant feeling sat where the beginnings of my history had once been. That part of myself was a tale long dead, one that held nothing for me.” (177)
As a young boy, Saul thought that his family's land was heaven on earth. But after many years of torture and discrimination, he has become hollow inside. He has become nothing but a shell of a person. After seeing countless children getting killed, getting raped, and treated horribly by those who were not natives. As a person, you can only handle so much mental and physical torture, and with Saul explaining how he feels, it shows that he has reached his limit, and just feels nothing anymore. Considering that he can't even feel any emotion when returning to his family's sacred land, it is revealed that he has truly departed with his native past, after it was forced out of him over the course of many years, whether it was at St. Jerome's or elsewhere. |