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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,
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