Essay# 4
Michael A.
Nick Hornby High Fidelity, book
Nick Hornby, the author of the book, High Fidelity taught us important concepts and experiences which might based on his own life. So in the book he related a story about a “rocker” called Rob, “the most deceitful man in the book.” He loves music and his crazy about his records. Actually the book is about music and how Rob compares most everything in a “top 5 list.” He started to be selfish by his relationships with Alison, Penny, and Jackie.
Alison Ashworth was Rob’s first break up in his life. She cheated on him when he was fifteen years old because he saw her kissing another guy. When Rob and Alison broke up they wanted to try new experiences like the first French kiss and touching each others. He wanted to have the experiences the other kids with the same age already. So, on the page 7 Rob said “at the fourth night of their relationship I turned up in the park and Alison was sitting on the bench with her arm around Kevin Banister.” Obviously, they were kissing each other, cheating on Rob. He felt so sad and disappointed. When he saw that he was vexed and his face became red. Surprisingly he forgot how to walk “without being aware in every single part of his body.” What to do and where to go, Rob said. Then on page 7 he said, “I didn’t want to fight; I didn’t want to sit there with the two of them and I didn’t want to go home either.” I think that is not what I would have done if I were him; I might would have left the scene to go to my house to listen music and maybe made a mosh-pit by myself. This experience left a mark on him. On page 9 Hornby writes, “But there still seems to be an element of that evening in everything that has happened to me since; all my other romantic stories seem to be a scrambled version of that first one. Of course, I have never had to take that long walk again, and my ears have not burned with quite the same fury.” This tells us an important event that left a mark in Rob’s life. It was his first experience in love hurts his heart making a little black mark in it.
Penny Hardwick was a "nice girl" and Rob’s second split up. She didn't let him touch and try anything risgue with her, so he decided to split her. By the time he had been growing up, his thoughts change to something little bit more mature; he was looking for something other than hands contact. He wanted "sex". As Nick Hornby tell us in the book, High Fidelity, that Rob was carried away by some of those ideas from the guys in his school, they said “Are you getting any?; Does she let you have any?; How much she let you have?; and so on.” This tells us that Rob was just trying to get everything he could and showing to his friends that he could, but when he realized he wouldn't “get any,” he gave up and finished with her. Days after, Rob learned that Penny went out with other guy called Chris Thompson. As on page 14 Rob said, “One day maybe three weeks after his last grapple with Penny, Thompson came roaring into our form room,” saying, “Oi, Fleming, you spastic. Guess who I knobbed last night?,” Rob knew that it wasn't nothing to feel proud of because he knew that was, “bad news.” He said. He felt like a mule, small, and very much younger than this “unpleasant, oversized, big mouthed moron.” Everyone knew that Thompson got whatever he wanted from whomever he saw, and this time it was Penny. Rob had been humiliated, assaulted, and surpassed. I think that he didn’t fell in that way because he knew it that was happen; he cares a lot about that the guys in his school say about it. Right after Penny left him, Rob try to take revenge, on page 13 he said, “I went out with a girl called Kim, who I knew for a fact had already been invaded, and who (I was correct in assuming) wouldn’t object to being invaded against him.” Rob’s mind was a little bit confused. As on page 14 Rob explain to us how he thought, he said, “I still couldn’t understand what had happened. How had this transformation in Penny been effected?; How had Penny gone from being a girl who wouldn’t do anything to a girl who would do everything there was to do?; Maybe it was best not to think about it too hard; I didn’t want to feel sorry for anybody else except me.” He didn’t understand how she changes a lot in a small time. He taught that she is a “pig,” so he decided left her, but he was remorseful to did it that.
Jackie Allen was Rob’s third experience of break up also a secret relationship. She was his friend Phil’s girlfriend. That’s why they keep their relationship in secret, they cheated on Phil. On page 16 Rob tells us a bit about Jackie’s relationship. He said, “We met in secret and phoned each other in secret and had sex in secret and said thinks like, ‘What are we going to do?’ in secret and talked about how nice it would be when we didn’t have to do things in secret anymore. I never really thought about whether that was true or not.” So one night Rob saw Phil very close to Jackie in a corner. Phil was visibly upset. Furthermore, the next day Jackie runs to Rob’s house to tell the good news. She said, “Rob, we don’t have to do things in secret anymore, I broke up with Phil.” But Rob didn’t like that, so after that they spend three weeks more, but he didn’t feel the same. He went through the third split up in his life. He felt free, but also uncomfortable at the same time. After Jackie broke up with Phil, to be free with Rob, He started thinking about how to get out of the relationship because he didn’t like her or feel anything for her anymore. Then when nobody likes each other anymore, Jackie went back to Phil; however, the relationship didn’t go back to the way they had been. Then on page 19 and 20 he finished the experience down saying, “In a few shorts weeks, mock-marital status had ceased to be something to aspire to, and had become a cause for scorn. At seventeen, we were becoming as angry and as unromantic as our parents.” Rob wants to keep the relationship in secret because he felt masculine or that was taboo and exciting.
In conclusion, Nick Hornby shows us how Rob learned to be selfish. Alison was selfish with him because she didn’t care about Rob’s feelings and she cheated on him. Then Rob didn’t care about the girl feelings, so he just wanted to obtain “sex.” He started to thinking about sex, but I think that sex in not the only good thing in a relation or in life. I believe in the love, feel security by the person who loved you, it is the only think that is important for me; not sex. So, Nick Hornby tells us that Rob learned valuables and important believes to be successful. He gained skills in each relationship and he was success in his last relation with a girl called Laura. I really wish that you could read the book because is so interesting and enjoyable, might you would feel identified with the actor, Rob. Might like him, you have been passing for the same situations. The book will help you, and you would learn from the different relations that Rob cruised in his life.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Album Review
Metallica: And Justice for All
By Michael Alvarado
Metallica is a rock band, which is composed by James Hetfield, (lead vocals, guitar), Lars Ulrich, (drums), Kirk Hammett, (Lead guitar), and Robert Trujillo, Bass guitar. In august 25th 1988, they wrote an album called And Justice for All, which was released on, One on One studio in Los Angeles California January May 1988. Before the record, James and his band released a very famous and popular record, called Master of Puppets. Those two records are very great and similar because both have this rhythmic power in almost all the songs. And their songs are very unique in their lyrics and their instruments are very awesome. They Albums are considering Trash Metal and Heavy Metal. That for the lovers of the Rock this is really the glory.
And Justice for All has nine songs. They’re all Rock songs same of them are really heavy and fasters with great power in very drums solo or guitar solo some of them are so relaxing at the beginning but in the middle they are a little pleasanter. This album make me feel like a Rock Star because when I heard it, my body refills with a strange feeling inside that make my body to jump and hit the air. I’m “moshing”, which is some kind of dancing on rock concerts, that is very famous for people who love enjoy the Rock concerts.
The album start, with a song called Blackened. This song describes the destruction of the earth by the habitants in there. It’s a great song that makes your body move like crazy and singing due if you don’t know the lyric. The next song has a great drum do at the beginning, followed by a great guitar that mixed make the most beautiful sound in the whole world. It’s called And Justice for All. It’s about how the “Lady Justice was raped” and loses her power in the world. The last song is called One. In it the drums are very excited too. This is started with an angelical and rhythmic guitar solo. This song is by for my favorite on the record. It’s absolutely a great song and the best of the record. It’s very fantastic and excited, simply in awesome. The songs are not about killing people or destroy you, something called subliminal messages; is all that the fans or music band people required to inspired to grow up in the music world.
And Justice for All is an Album waiting for James Hetfiel, following with his much acclaimed album called Master of Puppets. He wants to the best in this album, and the fans were waiting for it. But this new record; And Justice for All wasn’t more interesting than Master of Puppets album. It just is a record at list for star rating. The album begins with a lot of power by the song Blackened and continues stronger and faster. Almost every single song is awesome and faster with excellent sounds by each instrument and with the excellent work by the singer. This album keeps its style to the finish of it. In this album my three favorite songs are: Blackened, as the lyric says, “Blackened is the end Winter it will send” this song is about a kind of destruction or extinction of the planet air by many problems that we are crossing like in the lyrics” Opposition, contraction, Premonition, Compromise, agitation, violation, mutilation, ‘Planet dies’… Termination, expiration, cancellation, human race, expectation, liberation, population, lay to waste!!!” it talks about a possible excitation of the mother earth in to a big obscurity.
The next song is And Justice for All. This song relate how the justice in us country lose power as he says, “The ultimate is vanity, exploiting their supremacy, I can’t believe things you say, I can’t believe, I can’t believe the price you pay, nothing can save you”… and “Justice is lost, Justice is raped, justice is gone, pulling your find is so grim, so true, so real.” I thing is about the government, telling that everybody need justice why can expressed they feelings or believes because always the government what do you need to do or believe, they never tells you the truth or what is really happened in the society or in the wars. They always are painted in pretty picture to hide this problem. The lyric says, “Lady Justice has been raped by a truth assassin.” I think that “truth assassin” is the president or the governor, “Rolls of red tape seals you lips.”
The last one of the record is my favorite song called One. This song is very interesting and the video is awesome. It tells about veteran of the wars and that he was the only survivor of the second war and how he was fighting for his life because he doesn’t want to die. And they family and he on the hospital in his bed pray to God that helps him to wake up. This is my favorite because in song occasion in feeling in that way and I pray to God to help me to be better and never fail in a worst way. There is my favorite moment on the record Just tree songs that catch my attention not just for their awesome instrument and songs, also for the meaning of them.
All in are, I would give the album And Justice for All a very powerful and strong four and half-star rating. Everything in this album are fabulous; lyrics, music and absolutely interesting. I’m a great fan of this band and I would recommend this album to those entire people that just are beginning listen to rock music and to them that simply just need and inspiration to make their own music style. It’s a great album and excellent band to star thinking to be a rock star. This record will change your mind and the way that you listen to rock music.
By Michael Alvarado
Metallica is a rock band, which is composed by James Hetfield, (lead vocals, guitar), Lars Ulrich, (drums), Kirk Hammett, (Lead guitar), and Robert Trujillo, Bass guitar. In august 25th 1988, they wrote an album called And Justice for All, which was released on, One on One studio in Los Angeles California January May 1988. Before the record, James and his band released a very famous and popular record, called Master of Puppets. Those two records are very great and similar because both have this rhythmic power in almost all the songs. And their songs are very unique in their lyrics and their instruments are very awesome. They Albums are considering Trash Metal and Heavy Metal. That for the lovers of the Rock this is really the glory.
And Justice for All has nine songs. They’re all Rock songs same of them are really heavy and fasters with great power in very drums solo or guitar solo some of them are so relaxing at the beginning but in the middle they are a little pleasanter. This album make me feel like a Rock Star because when I heard it, my body refills with a strange feeling inside that make my body to jump and hit the air. I’m “moshing”, which is some kind of dancing on rock concerts, that is very famous for people who love enjoy the Rock concerts.
The album start, with a song called Blackened. This song describes the destruction of the earth by the habitants in there. It’s a great song that makes your body move like crazy and singing due if you don’t know the lyric. The next song has a great drum do at the beginning, followed by a great guitar that mixed make the most beautiful sound in the whole world. It’s called And Justice for All. It’s about how the “Lady Justice was raped” and loses her power in the world. The last song is called One. In it the drums are very excited too. This is started with an angelical and rhythmic guitar solo. This song is by for my favorite on the record. It’s absolutely a great song and the best of the record. It’s very fantastic and excited, simply in awesome. The songs are not about killing people or destroy you, something called subliminal messages; is all that the fans or music band people required to inspired to grow up in the music world.
And Justice for All is an Album waiting for James Hetfiel, following with his much acclaimed album called Master of Puppets. He wants to the best in this album, and the fans were waiting for it. But this new record; And Justice for All wasn’t more interesting than Master of Puppets album. It just is a record at list for star rating. The album begins with a lot of power by the song Blackened and continues stronger and faster. Almost every single song is awesome and faster with excellent sounds by each instrument and with the excellent work by the singer. This album keeps its style to the finish of it. In this album my three favorite songs are: Blackened, as the lyric says, “Blackened is the end Winter it will send” this song is about a kind of destruction or extinction of the planet air by many problems that we are crossing like in the lyrics” Opposition, contraction, Premonition, Compromise, agitation, violation, mutilation, ‘Planet dies’… Termination, expiration, cancellation, human race, expectation, liberation, population, lay to waste!!!” it talks about a possible excitation of the mother earth in to a big obscurity.
The next song is And Justice for All. This song relate how the justice in us country lose power as he says, “The ultimate is vanity, exploiting their supremacy, I can’t believe things you say, I can’t believe, I can’t believe the price you pay, nothing can save you”… and “Justice is lost, Justice is raped, justice is gone, pulling your find is so grim, so true, so real.” I thing is about the government, telling that everybody need justice why can expressed they feelings or believes because always the government what do you need to do or believe, they never tells you the truth or what is really happened in the society or in the wars. They always are painted in pretty picture to hide this problem. The lyric says, “Lady Justice has been raped by a truth assassin.” I think that “truth assassin” is the president or the governor, “Rolls of red tape seals you lips.”
The last one of the record is my favorite song called One. This song is very interesting and the video is awesome. It tells about veteran of the wars and that he was the only survivor of the second war and how he was fighting for his life because he doesn’t want to die. And they family and he on the hospital in his bed pray to God that helps him to wake up. This is my favorite because in song occasion in feeling in that way and I pray to God to help me to be better and never fail in a worst way. There is my favorite moment on the record Just tree songs that catch my attention not just for their awesome instrument and songs, also for the meaning of them.
All in are, I would give the album And Justice for All a very powerful and strong four and half-star rating. Everything in this album are fabulous; lyrics, music and absolutely interesting. I’m a great fan of this band and I would recommend this album to those entire people that just are beginning listen to rock music and to them that simply just need and inspiration to make their own music style. It’s a great album and excellent band to star thinking to be a rock star. This record will change your mind and the way that you listen to rock music.
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