Number 3

After talking more about what creative nonfiction really is and how to write it I thought of a song that I know.  The artist’s name is Sage Francis and the song is called Little Houdini.  The song is based on a true story about a man named Christopher Daniel Gay.  He was in prison and broke out so he could be with his mother while she was on her death bed and say goodbye to her for one last time.  The thing that makes Sage unique with his writing style and lyricism is how he put his own thoughts into this while telling the story of this man.  The more writing classes I take in college the more amazed I am by the creativity and skill some of the hip hop artists I listen to actually have.  Whether Sage realizes it or not he was using creative nonfiction to tell this story.  He didn’t know anything about the man but did research on him and was able to tell the story about this guy like he knew him personally.  He gets into the mind of Christopher and tries to explain what he was thinking while he was stealing these things to race to Tennessee to see his mother before she died.  Sage talks about him stealing a Wal-Mart truck and almost sympathizes with him and tries to get the listener to look through the eyes of Christopher.  The fact Sage was able to put it in the perspective of Christopher really does change your thoughts on the whole situation.  Well at least it did with me.  I try to think of myself like Christopher and I know how important family is to me.  If I could have tried to do it I might have tried to break out too just to say goodbye to my mother before she died of cancer like Christopher’s mother did.  You will always have the people who will feel since he did something wrong he needed to do his time and if he really did care that much about his mother he wouldn’t have done what he did in the first place to be put in jail but people do make mistakes.  When Christopher was caught he wasn’t able to go to his mother’s funeral which also makes me question sometimes the ways of America.  Sage raises so many questions with this piece and states how he feels about so many different situations that I could probably write a 10 page paper on just this.  And this is why I love the style of Indie Hip Hop artists.

Here is the song also: