1-In “living with music”, Ralph Ellison describes how hearing and listening was such a routine thing in his life and how this affected him in his apartment in New York. The noise was so annoying that he didn’t allow her to think clearly.
Ralph Ellison said that when he was little, he sang terribly and that the voice of his neighbor reminded him of that moment in his childhood. However, the music made him doubt since he couldn’t complain to the police.

2-In the first sentence, “In those days, it was to live with music or die with noise …”, that before music was to enjoy it and above all to relax. However, nowadays the music is very annoying as it is very noisy.

3-Damon and Ellison believe that there were different alternatives to block out annoying sounds. However, both stated that people are in their own space. Above all, they claimed that technology had come to create a more significant distraction. Today, we prefer to wear our headphones to avoid the noise around us.