Essay #4

 There Is A Time When You Need To Walk On In Life:

An Essay About How The Song, “Walk On”, Relates To A Raisin In The Sun And To My Life

Pine Point School

Ninth Grade English

November 4, 2011

By Schyler Davis

Have you ever had to move on in life? In the song ,”Walk On”, by U2, the lyrics are about going on to the next chapter of your life. This song relates to A Raisin In The Sun  because Walter and his family are moving to a new home, and it relates to my life because I will be leaving Pine Point to go to a different school next year. Although, it can be extremely difficult to leave what you have always known behind, it is very important that you do so because if you don’t walk  on in life, you will never discover what waits for you in the future.

In A Raisin In The Sun, Walter’s family is planning to move to a new house, a new neighborhood, for a new and better life (anaphora).  This relates to the song, “Walk On”, because the family decides to move to “a place that has to be believed to be seen”. Since they haven’t moved yet, Walter’s family has to keep dreaming about the new house, hoping it becomes reality. Mama gave Walter sixty-five hundred dollars and told him to give three thousand dollars to Beneatha for school, but instead he gives all the money to Willy because they were going to start a liquor store, but Willy disappears with the money, the dreams, the future (asyndeton), leaving Walter bewildered (FAST). Before all of this happened, Mr.Lindner, who is head of the welcoming committee, wanted to make a deal with Walter to keep this boisterous, black brood from moving into his pristine, white neighborhood. He told Walter that the welcoming committee was prepared “to buy the house” at a financial gain for his family, but Walter said no.  He wasn’t going to let this manipulative, two-faced man determine his family’s future, but now since Walter has lost sixty-five hundred dollars, he is thinking about taking Mr.Linder up on his offer.  He knows his family really wants to move, though,  so they go ahead on their plan to start a new life. In my opinion, Walter made the right choice to move on instead of dwelling on the past (antithesis) and by doing this he is going to change his family’s future by taking a step in the right direction.

    I have been at Pine Point as long as I can remember, and it is my home, a place where I feel comfortable, a place where cozy smiles greet me in the hallways, and a place where I have grown up to become the person I am today (anaphora). This is my last year at Pine Point, and next year I will be at new school, perhaps a boarding school. I am nervous to attend (FAST) a new school and to meet new people and to have new teachers, especially if I’m not living at home, but while I’m filled with these fears, I am bursting out with excitement (antithesis). This relates to the song,”Walk On”, because my time at Pine Point is coming to an end, and although that is sad, I know I have to move on to a different school. “I can't say where it is but I know I'm going home” because where ever I end up next year will hopefully be as loving and caring as Pine Point. Right now, I can’t picture myself at a different school, making new friends, asking my teachers questions, living the next chapter of my life (asyndeton). I wish I could stay at Pine Point forever, but I am excited to walk on to the mysteries of life that stands before me.
    You need to walk on to what you’re not use to, walk on to the path that will lead you down the right road, walk on to the future. In A Raisin In The Sun, Walter’s family moves to a new house. In my life, I’m graduating from Pine Point, which is like my home, and I am going to attend a new school. I believe that moving on in life can be intimidating, but life is a crazy journey that you just have to keep walking on.