A Life's Struggle
Ian Quey
Mr. Howarth
English 102
27 September 2005
A Life's Struggle
In second half of Pink Floyd's album "The Wall," the titles and lyrics to the songs tell a story of a man who is lonely, lost, and scared to the point of paranoia, and after reading and thoroughly analyzing the lyrics I noticed that "The Wall" which Pink describes is not a physical object but a mental wall constructed out of bad memories and terrible experiences he witnesses that have had negative effects on him throughout his life. He feels as though society has done nothing but harm him. Pink does not see any positive effects so he sees no reason for why he should not construct this "wall" in order to distance himself from society. This album portrays the story of a man who isolates himself and views everyone as a threat, but then realizes that he cannot exclude everybody from his life and almost goes crazy from the whole ordeal.
The song "Hey You" starts the second disc of the album and it describes......
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