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    It is always interesting to learn how a person perceives a work of art such as a film, song, photo, or still life. In reading Kim Jones perception of “Pink Floyd’s The Wall” this look into how she thinks and feels in reaction to these moving images was insightful and informative, not only about the movie but also about her personal character. 

Through anyone’s interpretation of an artwork such as this we learn many things about him or her. In Kim’s interpretation I was able to learn that she is a person that thinks about life. This quality alone is important in writing, and is actually rare in today society of time is money. This view of Kim is seen in how she points out the parallel between how she feels lonely here at Umass and ready to latch onto to anyone and anything that is familiar, just as the little boy felt in the park after connecting to a father son while riding the slide. From this feeling of loss of friends and fear of the unknown and unfamilier it is easy to see that Kim had some very strong connections in her hometown, as well as an anxiety and apprehension to come to college.

    Kim’s writing told much about her character and her fear for not being able to adjust to the different life that college presents to freshman. Although a common concern among many entering freshman, it seems that Kim was less worried about what was going to happen when she got here, and had more of a fear of what she was leaving behind. With this said it becomes easy to conclude that she was content with her surroundings before college and maybe not be as excited as some students can be with the opportunity to branch out and try new things. The feeling of jumping into the unknown is scary for many people, but in reading Kim’s interpretation of “The Wall” I felt it was a fear to come, but more of a longing to keep what she had in the past. This was visual when she paralleled some of the darker cartoon images in “The Wall” to that of the close of her summer that she described as “easily the happiest I have ever been.” This image of a dove turning into a scene of a plan dropping bombs, or a quaint town turning into a metropolis of commercial buildings and eventually a prison for the common people brought Kim to the heartbreaking realization that the happy days of summer were over replaced by the dark, mysterious, and lonely thought of college.
     Although Kim has many reservations about college, and anxiety towards stepping into the unknown, she is able to parallel scenes and ideas in the movie extremely well with scenes in the movie, as well as having an outstanding ability to symbolically link her perception of the movie and her life. Perhaps the line that sums up the kind of mood and best sense of Kim’s perception of the movie is when she says, with great imagery and connectivity, “I have never felt more like I am marching towards some giant pot that could easily boil me into just another brick in the wall.”--Thebriandonnelly 22:05, 20 September 2006 (EDT)