"Jeremy" by Pearl Jam(6)

Pearl Jam’s portrayal of a troubled youth in “Jeremy” touches our emotions in a way no out song could. The person writing expresses his resentment and remorse for all he did. As Jeremy stares at the screen with fire burning deeply in his eyes, we all know he is thinking of the effect he will have on all his classmates if he does something drastic. Jeremy had been tease and ridiculed all throughout his life. His peers thought he was harmless. They should have known that it is always possible for someone to retaliate.

Jeremy was a very disturbed young man who grew numb with no sense of reality. Jeremy’s home life was a factor nobody understood. Although his parents were together, his mom didn’t care and his daddy didn’t give him attention of affection. He had already gone mental once by gnashing his teeth and biting the breast of a woman at recess. Using the past the students should have realized could “unleash the lion” in Jeremy at any moment. “Jeremy spoke in class today…” was a line of depression and remorse for those students in the classroom. He took the grandest step and the worst step. He shot himself. Jeremy ended his depression and hopefully taught those who taunted him a lesson. Nothing is every worth ending your life over. “Sticks and stones…”