THE WALL

B. Choose one song and analyze it. Write an argumentative essay based on your analysis of the song you chose.

The film ‘The wall’ depicts the construction and ultimate demolition of a metaphorical wall.“When the Tigers Broke Free, Part 1” is the first song of the movie, describes the death of his father, during the battle of Anzio in the second world war and also that honor actually belongs to “The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot” as sung by Vera Lynn.

“The little boy that Santa Claus forgot” talk about a down-on-his-luck boy who receives nothing for Christmas because he’s from an impoverished family in which the father figure is absent, it’s easy to see how the simple story might have had a deeper significance in the context of the war-ravaged era in which it was written. We can relate it due Waters chose to begin Pink’s story with a metaphor about faith and illusion, fantasy and reality. And also that Pink is trapped in a limbo that wobbles between the yearning for a childhood innocence he never really knew and the unwillingness to face the reality he has helped to form. Working under the deception of harmless existence, Pink obsesses all that his childhood was not, and everything that his life has turned out to be. He is the little boy who not only desperate to discover that there is no Santa Claus, but what you are looking for to find that there is no such thing as a fair life. Because in a perfect world, all children deserve to receive gifts at Christmas. In this world, however, young children are born without parents, and mothers were very protective.

Moreover, his father's death, the film sequence for the first "Tigers" also briefly indicates another enormously instrumental moment in the life of the young Pink with the seemingly out-of-place shot of a young boy running through a field Open rugby. Many have speculated that the goal post with its resemblance to the letter H prefigures Pink's addiction to drugs - in particular heroin. While it may be argued that this particular memory of him running through the playing field as well as the close-up of the Mickey Mouse clock denote the innocence of childhood that Pink tries in vain to revisit throughout the narrative . The field is open and unlimited except for goal posts, alluding to the infinite possibilities of life before birth and even during childhood. However, as each scratch and stain on the Pink watch shows, the past is etched by every drop and scratch and the knick, both literal and metaphorical. The scene could not only foreshadow Pink's drug addiction but also her alienation as a child as a result of losing her father in the war. As such, the sequence creates a chronology both visual and thematic, starting with the father wrapped in the darkness of the war that leads to the pre- and postnatal isolation of Pink and finally generates the man drugged and unanswered, because it does not even give Realize that his cigarette has burned to the finger, let alone the blow of the maid in the door of the hotel room.

To Conclude, This song, makes connection with the song “The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot” by Vera Lynn because he talks about a baby who did not receive anything for Christmas because Santa does not exist, we can understand why it is so general “Santa Claus” makes himself understood Who is your own father. And also the sense of putting this song is for people to understand what he felt when not having his dad.