Strategies and structures1. Hentoff begins his essay with the example of a Nazi who loves jazz even though it is forbidden to him because he wants to show that jazz is so powerful, more powerful than Hitler's wishes. He writes: “And in Russia, under the communists, jazz was declared the enemy of the people, but there too [as in Germany] it could not be entirely suppressed” (3). This also shows that Jazz attracted all kinds of people, which reinforces the fact that he held a lot of power over people. Henthoff writes: “Every night, in many clubs in many countries around the world, this endlessly intriguing interaction between improvising musicians creates new patterns of melody, harmony, and rhythm” (10).2. Hentoff uses many examples of the spirit and personality of jazz to explain why jazz is timeless. He says, "The essential appeal of jazz throughout time is its 'sound of surprise'...the listener is often startled by...a turn of rhythm so deeply emotional that he can scream with pleasure" (7). . Emotions and surprise are sensations always present in man and since Hentoff shows that these sensations are found in jazz, it becomes timeless because its meanings will always be understood. Hentoff also says that jazz is timeless because "young people are drawn to the depth of feeling not found in popular music and older listeners relive their own musical adventures while learning about other dimensions of this music” (10). Fundamentally, Hentoff believes that everyone can relate to jazz music, and because it is so flexible in how it touches different generations, it is also timeless. Henthoff adds that the emotion, harmonies and rhythms of jazz “know no generational divide” (10). At the same... middle of paper...... I touched his feet, and his face twisted with the memory of his childhood pain. “You’re lucky,” she said. We both understood that she was thinking a lot more about the connections that made her cry a long time ago,” she uses the feet as a metaphor to show that Wu's time is so different and better than the one she lived in. When Wu writes "I sit at my desk, studying, thinking about her little doll's feet, about the miles of differences that separate us," she is using a metaphor and an example. It is a metaphor because over the course of Wu's play, her grandmother's feet became a symbol and metaphor for the trials her grandmother went through and the space between her and her grandmother. This is a literal example, as Wu could have just been thinking about his feet, but his mind is most likely thinking about the other information he represents..