Seek Up by the Dave Matthews Band

Elizabeth Austin

The impression I got through the whole book is that life is a challenge and that we only get one chance to live it. In the first verse the words ”…life seems like a struggle between what we think, what we see. I’m not going to change my ways just to please you or appease you…” represent the whole book. Scout and Jem seemed to struggle to figure out what was right and wrong. We see Jem mature into a young man throughout the book. Both children struggle to believe that Boo is a crazied killer or they see Walter as a good child and understand him when Miss Caroline didn’t. with the words “…change my ways to please you…”, Scout and Atticus were both put in this situation. Scout didn’t change her mind about respecting African Americans because her cousin gave her grief. Atticus represented Tom Robison no matter who thought he was a bad person. He didn’t change his belief that African Americans were equal to any other race.

The chorus of the song talks about emotions can be swept away. Bob Ewell had hatred to Tom and he made up a big lie about him raping Mayella and in the end Tom suffered the consequences. For he was innocent but his life was swept away.

The second verse is talking about, to me, a person doing anything in his power for a smoke or a drink when yet there are children hungry. Bob gave nothing to his children, he took all the money they had and drank it up.

The chorus still the same.

The third verse…emotion overflowing. Scout felt many different emotions all through out the trial. The big monster, to fight for you, relate to all the times Jem took up for Scout and when Scout took up for Walter.

The last verse says something about taking what we have when we are alive when we die. Tom Robison couldn’t take his family and the little pride he had with him. The Finches look at the memory of Tom always as a great guy. He was a great man and a great citizen of the Black community in Maycomb County.