![]() The piano symbolizes his sufferings, his thoughts and his sadness. He would rather sing out loud to express his love and the piano is played as a means to deliver his message: “I’d catch a grenade for ya, throw my hand on a blade for ya, jump in front of a train for ya…” He keeps repeating those refrains to show that he would endure all the craziest and dangerous things for his woman such as pulling a heavy piano all the way to her house. Even his fictional character is also a singer. Why would he do that? Why a piano? This recalls us the man is Bruno Mars, a singer. Most of the scenes then are about the man, in a suit, dragging an upright piano through the streets of busy traffic and gangsters to get to the girl’s house. He’s asking “Why were they open?” just to emphasize that she never actually loved him. This gives us a feeling of a one-sided relationship. ![]() In the picture, her eyes were “wide open” while his eyes were closed. People usually kiss with their eyes closed so that their brains can be immersed in such passionate feeling. “Should have known you were trouble from the first kiss….had your eyes wide open”. She has accepted all his sacrifices and his love but he gets nothing in return. “Easy come, easy go…Take it all but you never give”. The character is a brokenhearted man who has so much pain and disappointment as we can see how he hides himself in the dark. Why is it raining? The rainy scene symbolizes sadness or distress that indirectly implies the character’s mood. The video starts with rain and a lonely man singing inside in the dark. It could also mean he “would catch a grenade” for this girl who he loves more than his own life. “Grenade” could maybe indicate the girl who broke the man’s heart just like the bomb blast that kills people. What is “grenade”? The title doesn’t mean simply a small kind of explosive chemical weapon. ![]() I chose the song because not only the lyrics, but the MV has many details that stuck in my mind. This topic might not surprise you much but the song’s video tells a whole lot of other meanings. It talks about the never-ending struggles and anger of a man (Bruno Mar’s fictional character) who is willing to sacrifice everything for his girlfriend. However, “Grenade” by Bruno Mars is a different case. Normally, these types of videos can be exaggeratedly sentimental and easy to predict. Recommended.The song I’m analyzing creates a common argument about heartbroken love stories. I couldn’t put the book down once I began it, and plan to pass it along to an 11-year-old. Gratz writes his story with sympathy, even for the Japanese soldiers. Gratz’s story is believable and, although there are no descriptions of blood and guts, I think it pushes the edges for the youngest readers 9 may be too young for this one. Spoiler alert: Grenade isn’t going to encourage anyone to sign up. Now Ray is among the waves of men storming Okinawa’s beaches.Īlan Gratz has told a marvelous story that the publisher says is for 9- to 12-year-old readers but is actually a fine tale for anyone with an interest in Okinawa or what war is really like. His father beat him when he tried to sign up before he turned 18, but after that birthday, his father knew he couldn’t stop him. Meanwhile, 18-year-old Ray Majors is a freckle-faced Marine from Nebraska. ![]() One is to kill as many American soldiers as possible, and the other is to be used to commit suicide. The Japanese officer in charge of the middle school boy-soldiers has given them each two grenades. The time has come-and it’s even worse than he had feared. He was 13 then, but near enough to 14 to feel he should stay and fight. Hideki, 14, stayed in Okinawa when his mother and younger brother evacuated to mainland Japan.
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