The Blues

When Rachel was talking to Drew about the blues what popped into my head was the reading of "Sonny's Blues" because of how the blues effects people in different ways. The way that was seen with "Sonny's Blues" was in my mind as a motivator, while in The Girl Who Fell from The Sky it was seen as a way to look forward to good times. This is shown when Rachel describes the blues as a blue bottle with a beautiful plant inside. Because of the dark color of the bottle it is hard for light to get inside the bottle. When the light is bright enough it does let the plant grow beautiful and green as Rachel said to Drew. She also goes on to think about how it would have been different if Mor would have known about the blues and been able to see better things during bad times. Rachel uses the blues to get through bad times and be able to keep her bad or sad feelings in that bottle also, but for the most part just letting the plant grow and see the beauty in life and see the good things in her life.
The fact she starts talking about the blues shows that she is now getting back in my mind atleast to the girl she was when she was with Mor and not seeing differences in races. I see this because anybody can listen to the blues where as she was starting to see what different things white people would do as compared to what black people would do. This is also points out to me that she is growing up because a young girl would never try to relate the blues or any other music to their lives because they don't necessarily have any big problems to deal with. The fact she is looking at the blues and connecting it to her life and along with Mor shows she is understanding of her life and all the problems or dilemmas she has to deal with on a day to day basis and will still look forward to the goood things or also the silver lining in her life to look at positively. For the most part I just saw this as a key part in the story to show when she is really grown up being able to not just look at the bad but also see the good. The only way this is really possible is because she deals with different races and also bigger problems day to day and at a young age to understand it better. Mor couldn't necessarily adapt to everything because of how she wasn't used to the problem of different races and therefor almost wouldn't be able to understand the blues ability to see the positive side of things she only saw the bad side.
Kevin Ostempowski Post 1