El Patron is the Fuher and supreme ruler of Opium, this is a country which he created and everything is done for him. El Patron has everything that he could ever want and that is what led me to choose What a wonderful world by Louis Armstrong for his playlist. El Patron see Opium as his country so everything is perfect for him. He is like a kid in a candy store, he is living a dream and never wants to leave.
" "Give things...things...away?' he cried in a voice of a man one hundred years younger. "Give things away? I can't believe I heard that! What have they been teaching you!" "(Farmer 184). This quote is a perfect example of why I chose this song in particular. In this excerpt from the novel El Patron expresses his disgust in Matt suggesting to him to give away part of his fortune. To El Patron he has worked for it and it belongs to him. El Patron is in his perfect world and he never wants to lose it. This is what Louis Armstrong is saying in this powerful yet graceful song. Lyrics from the classic such as "I see trees of green....red roses too. I see em bloom..... for me and you. And I think to myself....what a wonderful world. (Louis Armstrong)" In my opinion El Patron is in a world of his own, he does not see the cruelty of his actions and the negative impact on others. He only sees the gain that will come to him. El Patron may be seen by others as a greedy and cruel man and he definitely is but to himself he is a god living in his own perfect world.
Dream a Little Dream of Me- Louis Armstrong
" "Give things...things...away?' he cried in a voice of a man one hundred years younger. "Give things away? I can't believe I heard that! What have they been teaching you!" "(Farmer 184). This segment from the novel is part of a bigger picture that El Patron is always telling Matt. " " Give things away?" Mused the old man. Was that why i fought my way out of Durango? Was that why I built and empire greater then Eldorado's?" (Farmer 184). This is what El Patron keeps reiterating to Matt: that he came from nothing yet he has built this empire of drugs in a country that he forged. But that can only be taken from the cover of the song. When we really look and analyze the lyrics we see that Armstrong is talking about his lover. El Patron has no lovers and that is why I think he acts the way he is. This song would really be about the emotional side of El Patron, the side nobody sees because nobody cares. I think that on the inside El Patron is just a gentle soul that hates because he has nobody to care about him. He has no family and nobody to turn to.
Mr. Bojangles- Sammy Davis Junior
"He told me of the times he worked with minstrel shows, traveling around The South. He spoke with tears of fifteen years" (Sammy Davis Jr.). This segment from the song Mr. Bojangles by Sammy Davis Junior is a perfect example of what I believe El Patron listens to. This is for multiple reasons; first of all El Patron is always talking about his childhood. He is very proud of how he became who he is and he should be; El Patron was nothing with nothing yet he became such a rich person. From the song we see that this is what Mr. Bojangles also went through. Mr. Bojangles was working with a sideshow for fifteen years and was sad, but later in the song that changes, he is happy and dancing. "He grabbed his pants, took a bitter stance, jumped up high. That's when he clicked his heels. Then he let go a laugh, lord, he'd let go a laugh, shook back his clothes all around." (Sammy Davis Jr). In this segment we have evidence that Mr. Bojangles in the end was happy, as is the same about El Patron.
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