https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p What did you notice as you watched the video? Is there evidence in the lyrics? (please provide quotes whenever possible) en-us 2019-01-28 14:28:59 UTC 2025-10-27 14:53:30 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Rafaelo.png https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325058978 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.]]> 2019-01-28 17:52:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325058978 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325058988 In the beginning, he is overjoyed, ecstatic about the ' endless capabilities' of these shoes.]]> 2019-01-28 17:52:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325058988 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059012 At the beginning he is excited and hopeful about what these shoes can do for him.]]> 2019-01-28 17:52:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059012 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059079 -Shoes are awesome 
-Happy
-Reached his goal to touch the net
-Cool now
-Best on the court]]> 2019-01-28 17:52:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059079 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059086 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".]]> 2019-01-28 17:52:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059086 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059127 2019-01-28 17:52:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059127 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059141 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.]]> 2019-01-28 17:52:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059141 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059239 In the beginning ]]> 2019-01-28 17:52:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059239 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059245 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. ]]> 2019-01-28 17:52:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059245 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059255 The shoes became who he was.
He starts to view the shoes differently than before.]]> 2019-01-28 17:52:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059255 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059272 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"]]> 2019-01-28 17:52:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059272 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059285 In the beginning he was overjoyed that he had gotten his first pair and made a shot in the net when wearing the shoes. ]]> 2019-01-28 17:52:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059285 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059288 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.]]> 2019-01-28 17:52:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059288 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059289 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.]]> 2019-01-28 17:52:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059289 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059295 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".]]> 2019-01-28 17:52:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059295 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059297 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.]]> 2019-01-28 17:52:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059297 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059299 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]]> 2019-01-28 17:52:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059299 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059341 "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.]]> 2019-01-28 17:52:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059341 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059365 In the beginning he was so excited and happy to get the shoes because he felt cool and he had finally touched the net.]]> 2019-01-28 17:52:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059365 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059401 In the beginning he was so happy that he had gotten these shoes he thought he was cool]]> 2019-01-28 17:52:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059401 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059427 -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. ]]> 2019-01-28 17:52:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059427 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059490 In the beginning he was so happy to get the shoes.]]> 2019-01-28 17:53:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059490 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059625 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".]]> 2019-01-28 17:53:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059625 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059732 Shoes = Confidence ]]> 2019-01-28 17:53:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059732 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059792 2019-01-28 17:53:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059792 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059935 The shoes start defining who he is as a person. The shoes control his thoughts and feelings.]]> 2019-01-28 17:53:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325059935 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060122 excited about the shoe]]> 2019-01-28 17:54:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060122 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060133 He's happy that he has these shoes because they were cool.]]> 2019-01-28 17:54:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060133 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060176 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." ]]> 2019-01-28 17:54:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060176 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060259 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.]]> 2019-01-28 17:54:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060259 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060274 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. ]]> 2019-01-28 17:54:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060274 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060296 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."]]> 2019-01-28 17:54:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060296 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060304 -Shoes change him
-Makes him want what he can't have]]> 2019-01-28 17:54:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060304 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060402 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. ]]> 2019-01-28 17:54:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060402 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060444 The middle of the song, the shoes are now what he is seen as and not who he is. They are defining him]]> 2019-01-28 17:54:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060444 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060445 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.]]> 2019-01-28 17:54:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060445 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060520 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.]]> 2019-01-28 17:54:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060520 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060556 the shoes defined him]]> 2019-01-28 17:54:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060556 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060580 He started to see that the shoes defined who he was.]]> 2019-01-28 17:54:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060580 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060669 He thinks his shoes are his everything like his guardian angel or his "parachute".]]> 2019-01-28 17:54:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060669 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060817 He realizes that all along these shoes were just shoes. ]]> 2019-01-28 17:54:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060817 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060886 -Shoes consumed him
-Realizes its just another pair of shoes]]> 2019-01-28 17:55:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060886 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060899 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".]]> 2019-01-28 17:55:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325060899 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061025 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.]]> 2019-01-28 17:55:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061025 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061045 At the beginning he thinks the shoes are his life and that they are what makes him cool or not. ]]> 2019-01-28 17:55:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061045 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061061 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. ]]> 2019-01-28 17:55:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061061 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061186 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"]]> 2019-01-28 17:55:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061186 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061224 He starts to realize that his shoes don't define him. He makes himself into the person he is not what he wears]]> 2019-01-28 17:55:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061224 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061261 The ending he realizes that the shoes are just shoes and they don't need to take up his life.]]> 2019-01-28 17:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061261 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061280 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]]> 2019-01-28 17:55:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061280 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061586 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.]]> 2019-01-28 17:56:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061586 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061599 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.  ]]> 2019-01-28 17:56:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061599 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061650 At the beginning he loves the shoes and they are his life.]]> 2019-01-28 17:56:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061650 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061702 Now he realizes that all the things he thought his shoes did for him really didnt help as much as he thought ]]> 2019-01-28 17:56:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061702 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061713 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.]]> 2019-01-28 17:56:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061713 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061727 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.]]> 2019-01-28 17:56:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061727 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061871 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.]]> 2019-01-28 17:56:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061871 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061901 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.' ]]> 2019-01-28 17:56:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061901 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061908 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.]]> 2019-01-28 17:56:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061908 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061926 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.]]> 2019-01-28 17:56:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061926 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061999 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.]]> 2019-01-28 17:56:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325061999 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325062069 Shoes make him who he is. They take him over.]]> 2019-01-28 17:56:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325062069 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325062077 The shoes are taking over his life and he's being consumed into society's stereotypes. ]]> 2019-01-28 17:56:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325062077 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325062128 He starts to let the shoes define him as a person, they start to become his identity. ]]> 2019-01-28 17:56:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325062128 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325062191 he let the shoes take over and make him think he isn't cool unless he wears them.]]> 2019-01-28 17:57:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325062191 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325062194 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. ]]> 2019-01-28 17:57:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325062194 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325062374 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.]]> 2019-01-28 17:57:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325062374 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325062438 Man vs self=]]> 2019-01-28 17:57:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325062438 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325062469 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 ]]> 2019-01-28 17:57:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325062469 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325062526 his friends brother got killed for his shoes, he got his shoes stolen]]> 2019-01-28 17:57:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325062526 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325062600 In the middle part, he wanted to be somebody, he wants to be cool, he wants to fit in.]]> 2019-01-28 17:57:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325062600 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325062715 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.]]> 2019-01-28 17:57:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325062715 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325062830 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. ]]> 2019-01-28 17:57:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325062830 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325062843 2019-01-28 17:58:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325062843 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063094 his shoes do not define him.]]> 2019-01-28 17:58:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063094 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063191 "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,]]> 2019-01-28 17:58:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063191 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063402 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.  ]]> 2019-01-28 17:58:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063402 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063432 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.]]> 2019-01-28 17:58:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063432 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063446 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]]> 2019-01-28 17:58:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063446 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063467 Don't let society identify and define you.]]> 2019-01-28 17:59:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063467 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063529 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. ]]> 2019-01-28 17:59:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063529 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063554 He gets excited about the shoes and how he thinks they give him power.]]> 2019-01-28 17:59:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063554 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063570 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"]]> 2019-01-28 17:59:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063570 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063581 No one else should be allowed to determine who you are. You should be able to wear whatever "Shoes" you want.]]> 2019-01-28 17:59:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063581 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063646 Don't let the world change who you are as a person.]]> 2019-01-28 17:59:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063646 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063649 His life ARE the shoes. He thinks that the shoes define who he is and if he's cool or not.]]> 2019-01-28 17:59:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063649 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063732 "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]]> 2019-01-28 17:59:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063732 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063862 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.]]> 2019-01-28 17:59:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063862 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063866 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. ]]> 2019-01-28 17:59:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325063866 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325064233 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.]]> 2019-01-28 18:00:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325064233 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325064287 "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"]]> 2019-01-28 18:00:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325064287 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325064300 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," ]]> 2019-01-28 18:00:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325064300 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325064375 Don't let whats on the outside define whats on the inside.]]> 2019-01-28 18:00:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325064375 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325064411 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.]]> 2019-01-28 18:00:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325064411 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325064525 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."]]> 2019-01-28 18:00:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325064525 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325064566 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"]]> 2019-01-28 18:00:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325064566 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325064750 ".....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)]]> 2019-01-28 18:01:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325064750 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325064970 Shoes start to change him. He wants what he can't have and urges to have it.]]> 2019-01-28 18:01:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325064970 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325065324 Don't let something define who you really are on inside or out.]]> 2019-01-28 18:02:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325065324 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325065390 Society should not define you by wealth or social class.]]> 2019-01-28 18:02:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325065390 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325065457 Man vs. self- The speaker feels that these shoes are him he is nothing without the shoes. The speaker feels as though they are his parachute.

Man vs. society- The speaker has to go against society and the belief everybody needs the shoes to be something.]]> 2019-01-28 18:02:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325065457 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325065588 Man vs. Society
The speaker realizes the shoes were identifying him and he didn't agree with that. He wanted to be his own person.]]> 2019-01-28 18:02:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325065588 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325065642 In the end he realizes that his clothes don't define him, and is trying to ]]> 2019-01-28 18:02:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325065642 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325065719 The speaker starts to realize at the end that his shoes do not define him as a person, "these Nikes help me define me but I'm trying to take mine off" he realizes the shoes are not what defines him, but helps him define himself.]]> 2019-01-28 18:02:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325065719 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325065760 The theme of wings is that shoes, clothes, and overall physical appearance shouldn't define you.]]> 2019-01-28 18:02:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325065760 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325065824 Man VS Society- He thinks that society judges him for what he wears. So he's stuck in this mindset that people view him for his shoes and not him.]]> 2019-01-28 18:02:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325065824 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325065833 "I stitch my wings and pull the strings" it shows that his shoes are his wings keeping him off the ground. We are what we wear we wear what we are" he's saying that what you wear defines you as a person.]]> 2019-01-28 18:03:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325065833 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325065940 You are in control of how you act and who yo are. No one and nothing else ]]> 2019-01-28 18:03:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325065940 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325066115 Don't let society or material things define who you are.]]> 2019-01-28 18:03:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325066115 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325066191 Man V.S. Self
Hes struggling to identify his true self and be able to show it to the people around him. Without being put into catagories with other people in them. ]]> 2019-01-28 18:03:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325066191 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325066348 Internal Conflict
Man vs. Society 
"We want what we can't have, commodity makes us want it," He figures out that society can easily influence us to get certain things using all kinds of things to influence us.]]> 2019-01-28 18:03:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325066348 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325066428 Don't let what you wear define who you are.]]> 2019-01-28 18:04:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325066428 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325066456 He is getting so caught up in trying to fit in and depending on his shoe's.He is getting overwhelmed]]> 2019-01-28 18:04:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325066456 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325066484 The speaker begins to see how something as simple as shoes are creating such gaps in not only his friend group, but also in his world, due to the idea that shoes are the key to a higher societal value.]]> 2019-01-28 18:04:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325066484 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325066604 The shoes are now just shoes, he realizes that shoes don't have to define him.]]> 2019-01-28 18:04:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325066604 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325066606 "....Then my friend Carlos brother got murdered for his four's..." he might be seeing that being flamboyant can be dangerous]]> 2019-01-28 18:04:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325066606 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325066622 "Strangled by these laces, laces I can barely talk"]]> 2019-01-28 18:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325066622 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325066651 He views the shoes as what makes him who he is. He let's the shoes define who he is. ]]> 2019-01-28 18:04:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325066651 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325066820 In the end he realizes that shoes are just shoes and it doesn't define you]]> 2019-01-28 18:04:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325066820 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325066981 Things do not define you,only you can define you.]]> 2019-01-28 18:05:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325066981 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325067085 Don't change yourself or your identity to fit societies rules.]]> 2019-01-28 18:05:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325067085 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325067114 Don't let society define who you are or change you.]]> 2019-01-28 18:05:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325067114 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325067170 Be who you are.]]> 2019-01-28 18:05:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325067170 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325067448 The speaker seems to become fully aware that these are a pair of shoes and that defining yourself is over shoes is not worth being consumed and being targeted because of his shoes."'...now I see its just another pair of shoes.'"]]> 2019-01-28 18:06:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325067448 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325067453 Internal conflict is conveyed at character vs self and external conflict as character vs society. His internal conflict could have possibly come from society's pressure they put on him or vice versa. They do add on to each other though. ]]> 2019-01-28 18:06:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325067453 https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325068001 "These Nikes help me define me, but I'm trying to take mine, off."]]> 2019-01-28 18:07:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ldavis41/7zcsc0muwk6p/wish/325068001