Post #11, Visual Arguement

Here is the final piece to my song interpretation. It is a music video with still images. Enjoy!!

Theory Two, Arguement Four

The third verse of this song is the hardest of all to interpret for my second theory. Out of all three verses of the song, the third one is the one with the least amount of information to support the theory. After carefully analyzing the third verse, I drew this line from it. Tupac states, "I wish I could take the pain away, If you can make it through the night there's a brighter day." Maybe it was possible that Tupac put his mother throught alot of emotional and stress throughout his years as a child and teenager. From selling drugs, to ending up in incarcerated, it is a great possibility that each of those acts stressed his mother out more and more. This probably caused unwanted tensions between the two, and it maybe even got his little sister invlolved, which of all things is horrible to put a little child through. The last rhyme that I was able to find in the song that helps prove my theory was this one. He says, "Everything will be alright if ya hold on, It's a struggle everyday, gotta roll on." Even though he probably had problems with his mother, he stresses how sometimes one has to struggle just to survive. He strongly urges his mom to stay strong and keep fighting. Becuase on the bright side, there will be a better day.

Theory Two, Arguement Three

Moving onto the second verse of the song, I see quite a bit of interesting ones. Now that I start to think about it, this song could be either about his mother or his family in general. This song provides alot of good lines to try and prove both of the theories. Tupac states in the second verse, "They say I'm wrong and I'm heartless, but all along I was lookin for a father he was gone." When he says I was lookin for a father he was gone, does he mean gone as in passed away, or gone as in left him and his family to live and take care of themselves on their own? Its very hard to say for sure what exactly he means, but we can assume can't we? From other lines in the song, it's obvious that he never really knew his father well, so we can assume that since he was never there for Tupac, he could no longer show love and compassion for his father who had kicked him and his family to the curb. Without a father, the amount of emotional and mental stress that would occur to any child would be devastating. I would not be able to handle that kind of situation. Asides from that, the second verse does not offer any more evidence to prove my second theory.

Theory Two, Arguement Two

After finding two lines to support my second theory, I made an attempt to find more lines that could prove my theory. It gets harder and harder to find lines that that can prove this theory since it is vaguely described in the song. As stated by Tupac in the first verse, "Though back at the time, I never thought I'd see her face, Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place." This line can interfere with my first theory. It could possibly mean that he loves his mother so much, or it could mean that he now appreciates her but possibly at one time he was going through rough situations which made him feel different towards his mother. In the first verse, I also found a line which is quite interesting to interpret. Tupac says, "I shed tears with my baby sister, Over the years we was poorer than the other little kids." It seems that at one point in time during his life, him and his siter were going through rough times. Maybe it was because of their mother or father, or the fact that that they were so poor that they could not afford to live nicely. Either way it kind of seems obvious that Tupac did not have good childhood life. The most interesting line of the verse however, has to be this one. "When things went wrong we'd blame mama." They might have thought it was necessary to blame everything on their mother because of how she was not able to take of them properly. Overall, this verse was very interesting and full of good lines.