Piece Comment

Review of Dangers of the River Road


Driving is a big part of American culture and sometimes roads are dangerous, this piece tackles the topic in an understanding way.
I understand completely! The roads in eastern Kentucky are terrible. It’s almost like, to see beautiful country sides and tall evergreen trees in the forest you have to travel some horrible road that is on the edge of a cliff or some whatnot.
As dangerous as driving this road sounds, she is not very stressful in her voice to say be careful. I could barely hear her during the second musical interlude were she talks about the four teens that drown to death on that road when she was little, which is the part that really grabs you and gets your emotions going, I wish I could have heard it better. The script was written well. Its just her voice is so plain that it sort of pulled some of the life from the script. Also telling about her dad and why he chose to build their house we he did was pretty cool, maybe a sound clip from him would have been a little bit more neat than just saying what he said, but that’s about it as far as stuff that I caught.
The content of this piece is relevant to most of America because it deals with bad roads and we all know that they’re everywhere, so this is why I think this