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Tommy Ho
Miss. Ghai
ENG3U
5 November 2012
A Generation of Music Sydney J, Harris is the writer who wrote “Blasting Music to Drown out Reality.” According to the essay, he describes modem music is “noise” and annoying. He thinks people use to music to distract people from their problems. In the purposes of this essay is want to tell his audience, what music should be, what are the purposes of music, why do people create and listen to music, and how teenage should respect to the music. However Harris used some skillfully techniques to write a strong, convincing essay, such as his personal anecdotes, diction, and figurative language. First of all, Harris used his personal anecdotes for the main elements of his essay. He saw two sullen, slack-jawed young assistants to do some repair work on the tennis across the road, and they brought a powerful portable radio which kept blasting away for a full afternoon. However, the writer is subjective, he does not prove some objectives elements or other people’s opinion, and he only used his personal experience and emotions to judge and determined that people use music as a way to anesthetized themselves. These shows the arguments are individualistic. In the essay, it said, “It is not in order to hear the music, but in order that the vacuum in their minds may be soothed by the sound, so that silence does not force them into thinking about themselves or experiencing the real world of perception and sensation.”(Harris, P5) This also shows how the author determined
Ho 2 people how they used music as earplugs to block away people’s connection to the world around them, and to silence their problems and challenges. According to this thesis, it is explicit to make sure the readers can easily to
Understand the purpose and the argument of this essay. Secondly, the author uses some several of language to add