The Walkie: A Narrative Fiction

The lyric “if I slipped into the quiet” synchronises with the image of Julia and her emotions. The death of Rob has had a debilitating affect on Julia. Her personal heartache and inner turmoil has ultimately “silenced” her. She is left empty and unable to communicate to others. The oblique camera angle further emphasises this notion but also suggests that she is not part of the viewers’ world. Facing her back to the camera in a medium camera shot, she watches a train go past. The lyric “a melody strong” combines with the rattle of the train tracks, reinforcing the cause of the fatal tragedy. The lexical item “strong” links with the forte tonal quality of the rattling train line, adding depth to the scene.

Saturday became a continuation of Friday. From the early hours of 8:00 A.M., the business phone calls continued. Employee issues, individual Make-up Bar location issues. Luna spoke to resolve separate and different problems with them all. However, with phone in ear she was not deterred from attending her planned outing to the Farmer’s Market in Englewood, she had planned with Mauricio, Stella and Sol. Between calls and emails she was treading through the crowd. Visiting the stands at times proved to be task. Between words Mauricio fed her samples of bread puddings and fresh brie’s and figs. At the wine stand she made no qualms about second helpings.

“And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind” (Bradbury 10).

She tries to relate to sex through popular music that romanticizes relationships and life. The short reveals how it affects Connie when she is listening to a popular radio station, “…bathed in a glow of slow-pulsed joy that seemed to rise mysteriously out of the music itself and lay languidly about the airless little room” (Oates 424). Additionally, Connie felt her date with Eddie was similar to “the way it was in movies and promised in songs”(Oates 424). She felt she was living the dream and was beginning to relate to this sexualized, romantic media. In Marie Mitchell and Olesen Urbanski’s literary review of the story, they state “the recurring music then, while ostensibly innocuous realistic detail, is in fact, the vehicle of Connie's seduction and because of its intangibility, not immediately recognizable as such” (1). However, Arnold Friend was quick to remind her of her young age and innocence at the end of the story.

It was very quiet. Something in the corridor chittered loudly, like a shriek. It rattled both Vinyl and Octavia, but neither said anything. And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out its own roar that pounded away in Octavia. Then sound. “I have it there, just in case I can find my special somepony during my years at university.”

If you live in the D.C. metro area, there’s a fairly high chance that you may have heard go-go music. You may have been walking down the street in D.C. and heard people banging on trash cans and not even realized what kind of music it was.

Like many teenagers, music plays a large role in Connie's life. She drifts off into daydreams and desires when listening to music. It plays in her head, even when there is no music around. She dreams of boys and love, "sweet, gentle, the way it was in movies and promised in songs" (par. 12). When Arnold and his friend Ellie first pull up into Connie's driveway, the music on the radio has an effect on her. Like many teenagers, Connie is intrigued by the music. It allows a connection between her and the strangers in her driveway. She becomes interested in the boys. They listen to the same station on Ellie's transmitter radio that Connie plays in the house. Although she has never spoken with them before, Connie feels more comfortable and less tense as she begins to listen to the music from Ellie's transmitter radio and the music coming from inside her home as they blend into one sound. Because of Connie's relaxing state, she allows herself to become intrigued with Arnold and

Most people have felt that feeling they just do not belong where they are, or are not good enough for something. These are the feelings that went through Tom Yorke, the singer and songwriter of British band Radiohead, while writing one of the bands biggest hits, “Creep”. These feeling and emotions are recreated and brought to a new level when covered by Postmodern Jukebox ft. Haley Reinhart. Postmodern Jukebox is a popular YouTube channel that rose to fame by taking popular songs and putting their own vintage twist to them. To change Radiohead's “Creep”, they replaced all the instruments with a jazz selection, relaxed the groove to calm the song, and gave the vocalist part to a guest singer capable of pulling off a vintage sound. New aspects

The new radio stood among her intimate possessions like an aggressive intruder” (1). This description of the radio not only foreshadows its evil nature, but makes it a living

The Trances are the most important parts of the story. The protagonist, Ashlyn, along with her sister, Kyra, experience these Trances at any moment. Trances begin with a weird, but familiar, vibration in the back of their head. And then everything starts to go dark, and the Trance begins. The Trance shows Ashlyn and Kyra different visions that hint at what is going to happen in the future.

In today’s installment of “The Grand Conversation”, Imma talk about some things that aren’t so grand. In fact, they are rather morose in nature. There is a plague amongst humanity that is pretty well known to be in the open within the social consciousness, yet it’s often pushed to the side in our minds. This plague has many variants, yet it cripples our potential far more than we often admit. I am talking about the plague of addiction.

Nothing to do, Thorin searched the bookshelves once more. He’d read most of the old poetry anthologies that had belonged to Gemma’s father already. So Thorin dragged out the battered leather case and cardboard box which occupied the lowest shelf. A record player, Gemma called it. Old technology, though it seemed just as futuristic to Thorin. And, according to Gemma, gave better sound. Not all things old were worse.

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Even before her diagnosis, Marceline was known to talk to herself more than anyone else. Without looking above the ground, she wandered the faded trail bordered by thorny blackberries. Whenever she felt the quiet, isolated warmth of the evening, the memories faded temporarily.