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Analysis Of The Song That I Selected

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Independent Study Unit ISU Task 1 – Research & Literary Analysis 1. The name of the song that I selected is Mockingbird by Marshall Bruce Mathers III also known as Eminem. Marshall was born to Marshall Bruce Mathers Jr. and Deborah Rae Nelson who at this time were 21 years old and 17 years old respectively. Marshall’s father had abandoned him and his family when he was a newborn, which in return made his mom raise Marshall as a single mother. Deborah was never able to keep a job for more than a couple months, which caused them to move between areas on a regular basis. This meant that Marshall had to live in different places growing up, which had mostly included public housing projects. He has even gone on to state about this time, “I would change schools two, three times a year.” Thus, Marshall had a tough time making friends and was generally treated as an outsider by many other kids, even being bullied on multiple instances. Marshall went on to drop out of school at the age of 17, after failing the 9th grade three times. Even though Marshall was a high school dropout, he did however have a love for English, he has said "I found that no matter how bad I was at school, like, and no matter how low my grades might have been at sometimes, I always was good at English ... I just felt like I wanna be able to have all of these words at my disposal, in my vocabulary at all times whenever I need to pull 'em out. You know, somewhere, they 'll be stored, like, locked away." He soon

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