After the build up of the Berlin Wall , life in the divided halves of Berlin could not have been more different. The more the East German government repressed its people, the more they dreamed of the easy life and entertainment of the West. One night in 1988, the government brought in American rock star Bruce Springsteen to play a public concert. They try to to pacify young people’s dream of freedom and the East Berlin people could only pressed their ears on the wall to listen the concert. Also the colorful paintings on the blank slate of the wall that faced West Berlin shows their aspirations of freedom, the wall became a hated symbol of oppression.
