How Has Your Understanding of ‘change’ Been Shaped by the Techniques Used by Various Composers You Should Refer Your Prescribed Text and at Least one Other Text of Your Own Choosing.

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of dialogues “Last night I couldn’t carry you up the stairs. I can’t eat rich food any more and I dye my hair” To vindicate this statement Mr Velasco said in the play that, “I don’t think I’m as young as I am”. Ethel Banks is also realising the inevitable change, she said, “I just realised. I slept without a board…. for the first time in years I slept without a board”. They have learnt that the resistant behaviour and inflexibility towards the change can lead to conflicts in relationships and they have also learnt that they should try to appreciate the perspective of others and the opportunities presented by change. Without change, everything will tend to be boring and pointless. Simon demonstrated that change which is inherent to the human experience.

In the song “Stop this train” Mayer highlighted the changes to show how unavoidable is growing adolescence to adulthood. In the song, he talks about thing he doesn’t want to experience, as he grows old. Mayer’s each and every lyrics are concerned with the inevitable changes that occur throughout our lives and focus on his fear of aging and the loss of loved ones. That he is scared of facing the challenges life will bring to him. In the song, John talks about a train ride, which is life. Mayer illustrated the “speed’ of the train symbolises the pace of life. It was presented with the use of symbolism. And in that “train ride”, we will loose our love ones, we start to build new lives, and we have to fight our way. Use of various techniques made this song more colorful. The consonance of the word ‘can’t’ and ‘won’t’ linked with rhetorical question as he cries for help “but honestly, won’t someone stop this train?” reveals his defenseless to face the change.

In that ride, we feel like we’re moving too fast and he can’t take it. He wants someone to stop the train so he can go back to the past. We so desperately want things to go back to how they once were that we want to ‘stop this train’ a great metaphor for any number of ending s in life. John then talks about loosing parents. That they will not stay forever. He says: “Don’t know how else to say it, don’t want to see my parents go.” And no one ever does, it is the start of our adulthood. We won’t be having our parents cover our backs and be our guardian. Our parents are the “One generation’s length away” then it is all up to us in this world. Mayer realizes all of this and he gets scared. Mayer has been using first person narration to illustrate his feeling and this vindicated by the dialogue of “I’m only good at being young,” he says. He knows that growing old would be very hard and that being young is easy for him. He rather prefers staying young than going into adulthood. He gets scared as life goes on and he is still not prepared, and he wants to stop this train.

The play ‘Barefoot in the park’ by Neil Simon and ‘Stop this train’ Mayer John has shaped my understanding of change through various techniques used by composers. No matter how hard it is for us to face, we will have to accept this side of nature. Thus, change is essential in human