Values

The people in the stories that we have been reading for the past few weeks have all been placed in horrible situations. But yet the majority of them have faith that things will turn around and eventually get better. In Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round’, the narrator is showing the determination to march to the freedom land and now one will stop him, not the officers or any other white man. In the song, We Shall Overcome; there is hope that their freedom in due course will be granted. It is similar to the song, All God’s Chillen Had Wings, the slaves were told by the old man to wait for salvation, they needed to get to their lowest point before they could “fly away” from their suffers and be free.. The Strange Fruit reminded me of The Message and N.Y. State of Mind and how graphic both were. The narrator in The Message spoke about the life in the city and how drugs and violence were part of the daily routine. In Strange Fruit, the story gives the reader disturbing scenes involving the treatment and killing of slaves. All these stories are all about giving the singer/reader inspiration to keep fighting, to help them keep moving one foot in front of the other when things get rough. Some songs also tell the reader the hardships people have to go through in life.