The End

  The Beatles have always been one of my favorite bands, and I feel like a lot of their songs can serve as soundtracks to movies or books. I feel like the Beatles could play as the soundtrack to my life, like if there was a movie about me The Beatles would be playing. A lot of their songs are happy tunes, they talk about things that people can do in order to be happier with each other. When I read the ending of The Piano Lesson, I thought about how the family struggled with the ghost of Sutter, the piano, and between themselves, but in the end they came out better and happier after all the problems were resolved. Even Boy Willie himself seems to change towards the end, he helps everyone by fighting off the ghost of Sutter and making him leave. The song “Here Comes the Sun” especially fits the ending of the book, because the sun is a reference to happiness and light, and it is coming out because the darkness, in the form of Sutter’s ghost is lifted. “Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces, little darling, it seems like years since it's been here.” This says now people are beginning to feel happy again, it has felt like it’s been a very long time that the ghost of Sutter has tormented the house, but now finally it is gone.