![]() “ The Lake and the River” – The Boy finding the courage to leave behind his childhood home to venture into the City. “He proceeds to the road / beyond the home he’d learn to call his own” marks his departure from his home on the lake. Terri dies, and the Boy must decide what to do with himself. How she died is not explicitly stated – lyrics like “The blood / how it paints such a scene” sounds as if foul play was involved, but “Her heart ceases its rhythm…She’s inanimate / bloodless elegance” sounds as if she died peacefully, or from natural causes. Because the title makes reference to death, “birth” is also brought to mind, implying that the Boy will go through some sort of rebirth due to entering into the City. The Boy takes the train into the City later in Act II and leaves by boat at the end of the of the album, which this could be making reference to. Spelled in this way, a berth is a bunk bed on a ship or a train. The berth in making reference to two separate things. Terri, as was foreshadowed in Act I, is dead. By the title of the song the listener realizes that Ms. “ The Death and the Berth” – A short instrumental piece that serves as a prologue to the second act. Most of the Dear Hunter Act II is from the perspective of the Boy, as almost every song for the rest of the series will be, with a few exceptions which are mentioned within the review of the song. The Boy also meets the Pimp and the Priest for the first time. The Boy falls in love with her, and she is the catalyst for most of the action in Act II. Leading, a prostitute who works at the Dime, the same whorehouse the Boy’s mother worked at before her death. The Boy’s mother dies at the beginning of the act, so the Boy decides to move to the City. Leading, which sums up almost the entirety of the second act. The full title of the Dear Hunter Act II is The Meaning of, And All Things Regarding, Ms. Terri will die: “Oh, someday she’ll be gone / We’ll still have her song to sing”. At the end of Act I, it is foreshadowed that Ms. Because of this, he grows up happy but naive. Terri is a prostitute, yet she raises her son to know nothing of her profession or the horrors of the City. Terri raises her son, the Boy, outside of the City by a lake and a large tree two symbols which will be referenced to often throughout The Acts. The most notable locations are The City (the large city located outside the small village the boy lives in), The Dime (the whorehouse in the city), and the Lake, Tree, and River all of which are important aspects of his childhood country home.Īct I introduced us to several important characters: the Boy (our protagonist), the Pimp and the Priest (our antagonist), and Ms. The story begins at the turn of the century in an unspecified location/country (though I believe it’s probably somewhere in England). The story follows the Boy’s decisions and the consequences of those decisions. The Acts follow the Boy’s life from childhood in Act I, young adulthood in Act II, and adulthood in Act III and beyond. The Acts center around one central character, the Boy, who is nicknamed the Dear Hunter by his mother. Then we’ll go through the entire album, song-by-song, in order to follow the complex story and understand the meaning within. Below is an “in a nutshell” description of the story The Acts portray, a recap of the story thus far, and an outline of the important events in the Dear Hunter Act II. If you’d like to listen along while learning about the complex story hidden within these 5 albums, I suggest listening on YouTube here, which has the entirety of the Dear Hunter Act II. The Acts are an intense, complex story told through music. For the sake of this series of posts, I’m focusing on five albums in particular: The Acts. The Dear Hunter has released seven albums (plus two live albums) and over a dozen EPs. The Dear Hunter is the brain child of Casey Crescenzo, the lead singer, songwriter, and only member of the band to be involved from start to finish. Today, we’ll be examining the Dear Hunter Act II. I’ll link my first post at the bottom of this blog post. If you haven’t read my first blog post on this band and their lovely 5-act series of concept albums, you may find yourself a bit lost here. If you haven’t heard of the Dear Hunter, you’re missing out.
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