Indigo
People are born with passion. The irony is that most people spend all their lives searching for that passion without looking inside that soul to the heart of the passion. The trick to discovering that passion is to find what makes us happy. For Indigo the main character of Sassafras, Cypress and Indigo by her passion lies in the music she creates from her soul while using her violin as her tool. From a modern literary criticism standpoint this passion is seen through her characterization and the symbolic use of the violin. However in peeling back the layers and focusing on this story from a Post – Modern standpoint the reader uncovers deeper issues. There is a sense of discontinuity in the linear structure that leads to a discovery about the cultural issues in this story. Indigo challenges the boundaries of her age and a society that struggles to find a place for her and her soul. That is going under the assumption that there is a place. “Indigo did not tell her mother about Mr. Lucas being so evil, nor did she mention that her new fiddle could talk.”(Norton 43) With in the first few lines of the story Indigo’s violin begins its transformati
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Approximate Word count = 1473
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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