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My dissection of "The Instrumental" by Lupe Fiasco

My Dissection of:  The Instrumental by Lupe Fiasco The opening line begins with: “& he never lies x2, He just sits and watch the people in the box, everything he sees he absorbs and adopts, he mimics and he mocks it…” Diving right in, Lupe throws us into a story about a sitting man. Emphasis on "SITTING"   The protagonist is pictured as complacent watching society through "THE BOX" basically  the media, our phones, our belief systems etc.  Here he pokes fun at others and takes on those he presumably admires personas/personality. What Lupe is saying is that many of us get lost in  watching so deeply  & then when we recognize it, then we move counterproductive to our evolution and then we begin the cycle all over again. We mimic, we resent, we return. A continuous paradox where addiction and escape reside in the very same place. “H ave the locksmith, see the box as, locked in the box Ain't got the combination to unlock, it That's why he watches, scare...
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In the BEGINNING

                                  The Beginning



 Today.

 Today will be the beginning of something new in my life..... Blogging.  

 Lets start with my neighborhood, well I'm 18  and I'm still in high school.
                                                                    

I know...I literally can say that this place.... was not what I expected. 
Growing here for these past years made me notice a few things about life as well as people.  People will always be there to try to bring you down to their level to make you think bad about yourself, people who you call your friends aren't really your friends and by next year they'll be gone and be one of those people who see you in the hallway and walk past you like they never knew you, at the end of the day all you have...is YOU.

Otherwise from that, this school is not that bad...not at all. A lot of the teachers seem to care about their students. and I must admit I've seen some pretty talented people here just take a look at the art wing you'll see what I'm talking about.

ONWARD! let's talk about my recent activities. 
I recently read a book named "Fences" by August Wilson.

 To narrow it down the book is majorly about Troy Maxson the bread winner of the household who seemed to be searching for his happiness and in doing so he manages to destroy his families.
Overall Troy is pictured as a "Tragic Hero"

Troy faces the struggle of battling his pride while he lives through prejudice while residing in his poor Pittsburgh community.  A tragic flaw is a trait in a character which leads to his or her down fall. As Rose once said in the novel "when he walked through the house he was so big he filled it up, but he didn't always leave room for others." Possibly suggesting that in some cases he didn't really care about others.   
   
His  excessive pride or arrogance got the best of him, ruining his family relations while still fulfilling his fatherly duty, unfortunately the story never ends well for a tragic hero.

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