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Soundtrack: With a theme of hopelessness/ hope for Yononndio

                In Yonnondio the characters constantly work to better their lives with no promise or evidence that anything will get better for them. They put in great effort and their struggle makes you want to believe that their hard work will pay off with a brighter future. However, just like the characters, the reader is only disappointed and hope fades time and time again with their defeat. For some characters in Yonnondio they keep hope in even the most trying of times. Others become hopeless and realize the insignificance of even trying. This book really made me question the idea of hope and hopelessness. One theory I had was that this book signified no hope and the insignificance of existence entirely. On the other hand I thought maybe the whole point of the book was to hold on to hope regardless of the end result. Like maybe life isn’t about the ending, but more so about the effort you put into it along the way. Just because you have increasingly awful circumstances doesn’t necessarily mean you should give up. The whole idea of Yonnondio is to honor those people from the past that may have been forgotten otherwise. If all you have after your dead and gone is a story of what you did then you should at least try your best to make it an inspiring one. Okay so maybe Yonnondio isn’t all that inspiring to most, but to me it’s inspiring. Although it was awful and seemingly hopeless for these people they still tried. They kept hope in a hopeless situation.  I have picked some music that I think illustrates their constant struggle, holding on to hope, and also the devastating reality of being hopeless.