Analyzing song

1. The main purpose for the close-reading is to look deeply into the song; look what is seemingly important and worthy of closer inspection. I’ll analysis the passage and what’s relationship of the rest of work. Also I need to look how language used to describe the event, character, and scene.
2. The main idea for this song is that there are always two sides of doing one thing; bad effect and good effect. Coming to California is the dream of many people, but California is also containing some kind of risks and failures.
3. The father said, “The north gives it exacts a price in retune,” It appears in the beginning to indicate the meaning of the song. If you want to get something, you need to give or lose something.
4. In the last stanza of the poem, it's like an irony that tells us that Miguel exchanges his brother to ten thousand dollars. The author wants to warn us that we might have to lose something to get something we want.
5. The second stanza indicates the main idea of the song. In the forth stanza, it’s also an important piece for the entire song. The higher the risk is the greater effort we can get.
6. The song is relative to the article “Suburban Eden,” the author says, “Often the reality of California from the failures of gold seekers to the disappointments of would-be Hollywood starlets, was evoked by critics and naysayers to answer ‘each charming ingredient of the booster arcadia’ with a sinister equivalent” (10). Although the California dreams in the Medias show the bright and positive sides, they often ignore the reality. The higher expectation will cause higher disappointment and failure.