Explanation Of The Song 'Paper Planes'
“Paper Planes” - M.I.A. Paper Planes is a song that paper took the nation by storm in 2007. The song perfectly correlates with the seemingly-insane Mary Talbot of chapter 24. Mary is never specified to have some mental illness, and she might not have one, but the chapter supports it. Mary lives impoverished, but Mary loves to throw parties, and throughout she is trying to invite others to join. She gets stuck trying to invite “Mrs. Casini,” who is revealed to be a cat. This turn of events is quite surprising, but not so to her husband who acts, “Tom picked up a rock and hit her in the stomach and knocked her off the fence” (145). It is a quite strange and harsh scenario that Steinbeck tosses into the book. The artist who wrote Paper Planes,
M.I.A., explains its purpose in an interview saying, “it’s about people driving cabs all day and living in a s---y apartment and appearing really threatening to society. But not being so”. This sense of irony is directly incorporated into chapter 8, but inversed. The Talbots seem perfectly normal, until it is indirectly revealed that they in fact aren’t. It’s a display of what Steinbeck so dislikes, the assumed notions that paints in people in false lights.
“In a Sentimental Mood” - Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
In a Sentimental Mood perfectly captures the essence of the last chapter, chapter 32. This chapter takes place after the very successful party. Doc is walking around town very pleased, along with the rest of Cannery Row. He stops by Lee Chong’s and then returns home. He then sits up on his bed, catches sight of a book laying on the ground, picks it up, and concludes the chapter and the book with a passage from a poem.
M.I.A., explains its purpose in an interview saying, “it’s about people driving cabs all day and living in a s---y apartment and appearing really threatening to society. But not being so”. This sense of irony is directly incorporated into chapter 8, but inversed. The Talbots seem perfectly normal, until it is indirectly revealed that they in fact aren’t. It’s a display of what Steinbeck so dislikes, the assumed notions that paints in people in false lights.
“In a Sentimental Mood” - Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
In a Sentimental Mood perfectly captures the essence of the last chapter, chapter 32. This chapter takes place after the very successful party. Doc is walking around town very pleased, along with the rest of Cannery Row. He stops by Lee Chong’s and then returns home. He then sits up on his bed, catches sight of a book laying on the ground, picks it up, and concludes the chapter and the book with a passage from a poem.