Tying One S Identity To Poverty
Jordan Meisles
Waggoner
W170 21773
7 November 2012
Tying One’s Identity to Poverty
A child is alone in the harsh conditions of the desert, he had very little to amuse himself with, and no one for company. As we see the child going about his daily routines alone in the desert, it becomes painfully obvious how immensely impoverished the child is. The audience then goes on to see that the child tries to plug a large hole in his shelters roof with wall insulation. The child goes on for a bit doing hardly anything a ‘normal’ child would be doing his age including analyzing a cross. He continues to explore his curiosity of the sky and interlaces his uncertainty of what actually exists with his imagination. After the world of reality takes a sudden turn into imagination, we are able to see how the child’s poverty severely shaped his identity. After the scene of imagination with very vibrant colors, we see the child grown up, and he is now Alexander Ebert, however in the video he is the fictional character “Edward Sharpe”. Alex awakens to see another human near him and his instinctual decision was to murder him. As the blood oozed from they mysterious man’s throat, Alex’s mind alters the blood into flowers for his mental stability and sanity. If the child’s imagination of the sky doesn’t convince someone that poverty has the potential to effect someone’s identity, Alex’s murderous action as an adult for his own individual isolation explicitly shows how poverty has effected his life in the desert. As a child, Alex had nothing to play with or anything of the sorts. Due to poverty he didn’t even have the option for purchasing anything for enjoyment, so the only thing he sought out to do for his own sanity was explore his curiosity. Through doing so, he shaped his identity into a creative yet curious person. Alex’s undoubtedly brilliant sense of imagination definitely began to define him as a person. Although his shaping identity due to his impoverished condition
Waggoner
W170 21773
7 November 2012
Tying One’s Identity to Poverty
A child is alone in the harsh conditions of the desert, he had very little to amuse himself with, and no one for company. As we see the child going about his daily routines alone in the desert, it becomes painfully obvious how immensely impoverished the child is. The audience then goes on to see that the child tries to plug a large hole in his shelters roof with wall insulation. The child goes on for a bit doing hardly anything a ‘normal’ child would be doing his age including analyzing a cross. He continues to explore his curiosity of the sky and interlaces his uncertainty of what actually exists with his imagination. After the world of reality takes a sudden turn into imagination, we are able to see how the child’s poverty severely shaped his identity. After the scene of imagination with very vibrant colors, we see the child grown up, and he is now Alexander Ebert, however in the video he is the fictional character “Edward Sharpe”. Alex awakens to see another human near him and his instinctual decision was to murder him. As the blood oozed from they mysterious man’s throat, Alex’s mind alters the blood into flowers for his mental stability and sanity. If the child’s imagination of the sky doesn’t convince someone that poverty has the potential to effect someone’s identity, Alex’s murderous action as an adult for his own individual isolation explicitly shows how poverty has effected his life in the desert. As a child, Alex had nothing to play with or anything of the sorts. Due to poverty he didn’t even have the option for purchasing anything for enjoyment, so the only thing he sought out to do for his own sanity was explore his curiosity. Through doing so, he shaped his identity into a creative yet curious person. Alex’s undoubtedly brilliant sense of imagination definitely began to define him as a person. Although his shaping identity due to his impoverished condition