It is a given fact that at some point in our life time every one of us will experience some type of blues. .
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine written by Bebe Moore Campbell is a compelling novel relating the human .
struggle in the after math of a racist murder of a fifteen year old African American. The author clearly .
illustrates how one hateful act can have can immediate and long term repercussions on every one .
involved. However it's how you confront your blues today which determines the color of your tomorrow. .
The story begins in a pool hall during 1950's in the Mississippi delta, when Armstrong Todd was .
murdered by Floyd Cox because he spoke a few innocent words to his wife Lily Cox. This cowardly act .
sets off an immediate impact on the families involved which would last for a generation. Floyd Cox, Lily .
Cox, Delotha Todd and Wydell Todd were the main characters haunted by Armstrong's tragic death.
Armstrong Todd the primary victim of a racist family with something to prove, was murdered. His .
harmless but unacceptable social behavior for blacks in a small town of Mississippi led to .
his death. Armstrong was one of many who experienced blues at a young age. A fifteen year old sent to .
the south away from his mother to live in a hell whole like Mississippi saw no other way to deal with his .
problems so "he began to cry" for he yearned for that day " that he could move back to Chicago"(28). .
Unlike most, Armstrong expressed his feelings. He took control over his blues, not the other way around. .
However this wouldn't stop the man who would end his life with a gun shot to the chest. There's a .
saying, everything happens for a reason. Maybe Armstrong was a sacrifice because his tragedy became a .
"battlecry" which motivated people whom he never knew. .
When someone close to you dies a grieving process begins and eventually ends. In Delotha's case this .
process didn't end. Armstrong's mother handled her blues badly which determined the rest of her .
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Blues originated in Mississippi around the nineteenth century. Blues or "12-bar blues", as it is called, has a standard chord progression. ... Jazz has many different features such as rhythmic qualities like swing, blues or flatted notes, improvising, and techniques that differentiate the musicians. ... Blues or flatted notes are notes that are lowered a half step. ... Jazz and blues involve over sixty years of great artist....
In the book Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie the issue of hunger is so prominent it is impossible to ignore. ... The government is in complete control over what the characters in Reservation Blues get to eat. And when people are being told what to eat, they feel like they are not free, like they are imprisoned on their reservation. ... Most people would not get very upset over two bottles of Pepsi, but when Pepsi is the only treat you can give your daughters it is easy to see why he lost his temper. ... Alexie writes of Thomas's stories, "Thomas Builds-the-Fire's stories climbed...
