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External Conflict: Man VS Man
"...And my friend Carlos' brother got murdered for his Fours, whoa."
Internal Conflict: Man VS Self
"...My movement told me to be a consumer and I consumed it, they told me to just do it..." The speaker is conflicted with an idealistic capitalist dream of greed and how he wishes to escape from it.

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In the beginning, he is overjoyed, ecstatic about the ' endless capabilities' of these shoes.

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-Shoes are awesome
-Happy
-Reached his goal to touch the net
-Cool now
-Best on the court

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At the beginning he is excited and hopeful about what these shoes can do for him.

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At first he sees is so excited to get these new shoes and loves how great they are. He doesn't care about the status that "goes along with the shoes". "And I was like, momma, this air bubble right here, its gonna make me fly".

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At first, he wants to be what everyone wants, and doesn't understand what it's doing to him. He keeps getting the latest and greatest shoes to be cool.

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The shoes became who he was.
He starts to view the shoes differently than before.

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In the beginning he expressed happiness when he got his first pair of shoes. He smiled and exclaimed to his mother of the joy he was showing when he touched the net.

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In the beginning

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In the beginning he was overjoyed that he had gotten his first pair and made a shot in the net when wearing the shoes.

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At the end the speaker states "Nah this is what I am, What I wore, this is the source of my youth, This dream that they sold to you, For a hundred dollars and some change, Consumption is in the veins, And now I see it's jsut another pair of shoes." The narrator realizes that he has been wrapped up how people view him and what they think about him. He though the shoes made him cooler and higher on the social chain. In the end he realizes that they are just a pair of shoes. In a grander scheme of things he realizes that we aren't defined by physical means and objects.

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At the start of the video we see how the shoes make the speaker so happy and what they meant to how he feels when they give him  "super powers".

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In the beginning of the song, he expresses, "I was seven years old, when I got my first pair." and "... I touched the net, this is the best day of my life." I interpreted this as with his first taste of what these shoes bring him he was overjoyed.

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He was overjoyed in the beginning, because he had touched the net.
"I touched the net, mom I touched the net, this is the best day of my life"

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He is so exited about his shoes and he thinks they will help him. He also thinks hes cooler than the other kids or a better social class because his shoes

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In the beginning the speaker was so happy to get these shoes that he told his mom "momma, this air bubble right here, it's going to make me fly" basically saying the shoes were going to make him cool. Then the scene changes to him in a classroom with the camera looking at the shoes of classmates around him while he's saying, "I was so cool...I knew my friends couldn't afford 'em" he was using the shoes as confidence that he was better in a certain way. The confidence is also shown the basketball scene at the beginning.

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In the beginning he was so excited and happy to get the shoes because he felt cool and he had finally touched the net.

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"These Nike's help me define me,but i'm trying to take mine off".This is a internal conflict with himself because he realizes that everyone is looking at his shoe's and not him.He doesn't want his shoes anymore because they have changed him and the way people look at him.

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In the beginning he was so happy that he had gotten these shoes he thought he was cool

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-The shoes are just shoes now, they don't define his life like at the beginning.                                            -He now realizes it's  just a pair of shoes.

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In the beginning he was so happy to get the shoes.

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In the beginning, he is overjoyed about having the shoes everyone wants but no one can afford. He refers to it as the "best day of his life".

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Shoes = Confidence

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In the end he realizes that what he wears doesn't matter and that his shoes aren't special. That he is what makes him as a perso, not anything he wears

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In the end he realizes that what he wears doesn't matter and that his shoes aren't special. That he is what makes him as a perso, not anything he wears

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excited about the shoe

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-Shoes change him
-Makes him want what he can't have

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The shoes start defining who he is as a person. The shoes control his thoughts and feelings.

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In the beginning the thought that the shoes were who he was, but then he later realized that the shoes are not who he is. "And now I see it's just another pair of shoes."

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He's happy that he has these shoes because they were cool.

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He starts to realize how detrimental these shoes may be " But then my friend Carlos' brother got murdered for his Fours". He wore these shoes to be cool but started to feel trapped.

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He has things he is interested in and likes. He wants to express himself through his shoes. Something that he can afford. But others may not be as fortunate.
" My friends couldn't afford 'em...Four stripes on their Adidas."

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Everyone for themselves. Shoes make and break a person. When he got his shoes stolen it hurt him but helped the boys who stole them.

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He has finally been able to gain the thing that he wants the most in life, causing him to be very overjoyed, excited for whats to come.

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The middle of the song, the shoes are now what he is seen as and not who he is. They are defining him

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He ends up learning that this isn't who he is. He starts to realize that what society wants isn't what he wants, and he finds it hard to let go.

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Tucker Valliere
Walks in gym or room at the start of the song and the camera goes down to his shoes and he is still wearing Jordan. Touches the net and says "...this is the best day of my life"- is it really the best day of his life, maybe is an exaggeration made by the character. He sticks out his tongue it's lie he's Jordan everyone wants to be just like him.

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He thinks his shoes are his everything like his guardian angel or his "parachute".

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the shoes defined him

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He started to see that the shoes defined who he was.

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He realizes that all along these shoes were just shoes.

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-Shoes consumed him
-Realizes its just another pair of shoes

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The shoes become his way to fit in and he realizes how much of a burden they are and how much they have come to define him."Strangled by these laces,laces I can barely talk".

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At the beginning he thinks the shoes are his life and that they are what makes him cool or not.

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During the middle, he starts to realize the significance of the shoes, and how they must be more than shoes. "We want what we can't have, commodity makes us want it, so expensive I just got to flaunt it". He's still trying to fit in and seem cool.

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When people start to notice, he finally cuts off from society. He doesn't want to be that anymore, and brings back his old shoes.

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In the middle of the song he is letting his shoes define him, until his friend's brother gets murdered for his shoes, and then he is in utter disbelief about it. "And then my friend Carlos' brother got murdered for his fours, woah"

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The ending he realizes that the shoes are just shoes and they don't need to take up his life.

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He starts to realize that his shoes don't define him. He makes himself into the person he is not what he wears

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He thinks the shoes are what define him but then he doesn't want them to define anymore and they become like a burden to him

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Man vs Man when Carlos' brother gets murdered for his shoes. "And then my friend Carlos' brother got murdered for his fours, whoa"
Man vs Self "See it consumed my thoughts" These shoes have a lot of control over who he is.

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At the beginning he loves the shoes and they are his life.

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By this time the speaker is showing signs of wanting more. "Cause I wanted to be like Mike, right. Wanted to be him, I wanted to be that guy, I wanted to touch the rim." He was showing that even if these shoes brought him what he wanted he wanted more even with the consequences in mind. He knew Mike was killed but that didn't stop him from wearing the shoes. Though he showed a bit of regret he never stopped.

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Now he realizes that all the things he thought his shoes did for him really didnt help as much as he thought

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Man vs Self
The shoes start to define and change him. He realizes he doesn't want that to happen. He sees how those shes started to affect his life and he wanted to stand up for something else.

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Throughout the story we see how the speaker bases his identity on the shoes and how he strives to be part of the crowd through wearing these shoes, but he starts to see the consequences of whats happening to people trying to fit in over these shoes. "'...my friend Carlos' brother got murdered for his fours.'

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He wants to be defined not by his shoes but by who he is, he wanted to change the way that these shoes were defining him.

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He wore a sorrowed expression when the shoes that he thought was an amazing thing got his friend's brother killed. He realizes that the shoes had more significance than when he originally thought. They weren't just shoes but a symbol of social status.

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Half way through the music video he realized that he was regretting getting the shoes in the first place because of the way commodity makes us want to buy things that we don't have.

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Man vs. Self
"We are what we wear, we wear what we are" and "And now I see it's just another pair of shoes"
These quotes show that the shoes were describing who he was when he finally understands that he doesn't want them to. He goes through the process to figure out he doesn't want the shoes to be his perspective of everyone else.

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Man vs. Self- Internal:
The thought of being cool and ding what everyone else wants for years gets to him, and it's a struggle to fall back into himself.
Man vs. Society- External:
Society starts to overwhelm him, and shape him into the person that everyone wants him to be. He ends up fighting back, but the conflict is still there.

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The shoes are taking over his life and he's being consumed into society's stereotypes.

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Shoes make him who he is. They take him over.

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he let the shoes take over and make him think he isn't cool unless he wears them.

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He starts to let the shoes define him as a person, they start to become his identity.

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The speaker is overjoyed by the idea of owning something so beloved and idealised in society, but slowly starts to see the repercussions of the shoes for the same reason he adores them.

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his friends brother got killed for his shoes, he got his shoes stolen

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He followed  what was cool and is consumed by the shoes and he can't  escape. "That's my air bubble and i'm lost if it pops" He is defined by the shoes and has no other representation of himself.

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Man vs self=

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Man vs. self He is influenced by society of what is okay to wear. He is just trying to fit in and stand out. "That first day, like these are what makes you cool"
Man vs. Society. His shoes are the way he expresses himself. They make him who he is. They

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In the middle part, he wanted to be somebody, he wants to be cool, he wants to fit in.

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Man vs. self
The shoes were defining who he was and he wants to change that . It says "These Nikes help define me, but I'm trying to take mine, off" He does not want to defined by his shoes anymore but by who his is.

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He starts to see that he does not need the shoes to define him as a person, he can make his identity on his own through other ways.

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He realizes that his shoes don't truly define who he is.

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He realizes that his shoes don't truly define who he is.

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his shoes do not define him.

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"I bought these dreams that all fall down." Good comes to the kids who can have possessions and can look up to someone who inspires them. We are part of a society that judges, wants, and can take away. Being yourself has its perks, and downsides. His beloved shoes are something that he loves,

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Man vs self-He has a consept in his mind that his shoes identity him as a person. Man vs society-Society has a tendency to depend social class on wealth.

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In the middle there is a choir of kids singing the chorus as the scene flipped through the lives of many different kids, "Tell me what it takes and I'll go so high" they want to do everything in their power to be known and be popular. If shoes make them popular then they want the shoes.

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Don't let society identify and define you.

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In the end the speaker realizes that he doesn't need the shoes and that they are causing him more trouble than they are doing him good.he realizes that he is depending on the shoe's too much

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I believe a conflict the speaker deals with is man vs. self. In paragraph 5 the speaker states "Strangled by these laces, laces I can barely talk, That's my air bubble and I'm lost if it pops." The speaker struggles to overcome how society views him. He struggles with dealing with his feelings about who he really is and what defines him.

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No one else should be allowed to determine who you are. You should be able to wear whatever "Shoes" you want.

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Man vs Self- "These Nikes help define me, but i'm trying to take mine, off" He realized the shoes were defining him and he wanted to take them off.
Man vs Society- Society controls almost everything. It controls what you wear and what you do sometimes."I listened to what that swoosh said Look at what that swoosh did"

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He gets excited about the shoes and how he thinks they give him power.

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Don't let the world change who you are as a person.

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His life ARE the shoes. He thinks that the shoes define who he is and if he's cool or not.

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"My movement told me to be a consumer and I consumed it"
"We want what we can't have commodity makes us want it"
"And I was like, momma, this air bubble right here, it's gonna make me fly"
"And now I see it's just another pair of shoes

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Man vs Society (External) "'The box, the smell, the stuffin', the tread, in school I was so cool'" - The character believes that he has to have the shoes to fit in at school. He thinks that the shoes define him and society makes him believe that that is true.

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In the end the speaker realizes that these shoes cannot define him. "Consumption is in the veins
And now I see it's just another pair of shoes". The speaker realizes how toxic the shoes are and that they are just shoes that cannot define him.

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He finally realizes that the type of shoe you wear doesn't define you. "These Nikes help me define me, but I'm trying to take mine, off". He's tired of all the conflict about shoes. Suddenly, he doesn't care about being the "cool guy" anymore.

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Don't let whats on the outside define whats on the inside.

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"And now I see it's just another pair of shoes"
He realizes that the shoes society wants him to wear is not the shoes he wants to wear.
"So much more than just another pair of shoes.
Nah, this is what I am"

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At the end of the music video he just realizes that they are nothing more than a pair of shoes that could represent his youth. "What I wore, this is the source of my youth; And now I see it's just another pair of shoes,"

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In the end the speaker realized that he was so concentrated on what he thought that society had titled was "cool". The shoes can't define who he is as a person.

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By the end he knew for a fact that what he was doing wasn't ideal. "These Nikes help me define me, but I'm trying to take mine, off." He knows that having these shoes define him is affecting him negatively, but he doesn't know how to take them off. At the very end he was still wearing the shoes, but he didn't allow them to define him as an adult. They consumed him as a child but as an adult, "... I see it's just another pair of shoes."

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man vs self
"will I stand for change, or stay n my box"
man vs society
"strangled by these laces, laces I can barely talk"

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".....Then my friend carlos brother got murdered for his four's...."
The shoes could start causing problems for him and could possibly get him killed. (Man v society)

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Shoes start to change him. He wants what he can't have and urges to have it.

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Don't let something define who you really are on inside or out.

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Society should not define you by wealth or social class.