Perks of Being A Wallflower
Please use the comment feature below to comment on at least one connection between Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall Pt2 and Perks. The lyrics are below. I expect comments to be in full sentences and contain references to both works and the connecting idea.
Another Brick in the Wall (Pt. 2) – Pink Floyd
We don’t need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall. We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.“Wrong, Do it again!”
“If you don’t eat yer meat, you can’t have any pudding. How can you
have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat?”
“You! Yes, you behind the bike-sheds, stand still laddy!”
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The brick in the wall is the wall flower in the book. The brick can fill in the hole
so everyone can be back together.
Mr. H’s comment - It might help to expand your discussion of the analogy Sean. I think you are on to something. Is the wallflower the brick in the wall? Do you think the wall seperates, restricts, or does it protect? Think about these questions for the next class.
the butefull flower can not be seen or if it wanted to it cant show its buty that is the walls impact.
Mr. H’s Comment - It might help to write you comment in a word processor so that you can spell check it, then copy and paste it. So you see the wall as hiding the wallflower’s beauty. You might expand your thoughts by thinking about how Charlie’s wall was built. Think about who gets a name on the bricks, or which people in Charlie’s life added bricks, an who has tried to take bricks away?
Okay the song has always screamed to me fight the power, and how that teachers and schools systems are teaching the youth of the world to conform to society. The wall represents society and the whole point is to become another brick in the wall, meaning just to fit in with conformity. The song screams to fight that and to become an individual, and all the people surrounding Charley and influencing him is screaming to him individuality, if not by there words but by there actions.
Mr. H’s Comments - I like how you have framed the metaphor. Society builds a wall, and people are the bricks. What are some of the ways Charlie and his friends fight this dynamic?
I think that the song is realated to the book because they both talk about walls weather it is an actual wall or a emotional one.
Mr. H’s Comments - I think the idea of an “emotional” wall is a good one. Expand your discussion here with explanation of what you mean. What is responsible for Charlie’s emotional wall? How does it affect him? Could it do several things at once? While it isolates him, could it also act like a band-aid and protect him until he is ready to face some difficult issues?
That one brick in the wall is missing and Charlie is looking throughthe one hole at everyone else.
The song by Pink Floyd is about society turning all of its teenagers and preteens into another part of society. Charlie’s take on this is that he is being turned into simply another brick in the wall of society by having his therapist tell him to participate. When someone does not participate in the usual parts of a “normal” life they are seen as out of the ordinary. By his therapist telling him how to be the book definition of normal it is like just another adult trying to tell him to be like everybody else.
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