Fast Car by Tracy Chapman TPCASTT CHART AND REFLECTION
Fast Car By:Tracy Chapman By:Hayley Davies Submitted To:Ms.Tsarouhas
Date: Wednesday, September 18th,2013
ENG2D
Fast Car
By: Tracy Chapman
T: Based on the name of the title, I predict that the lyrical poem is about the fast ride through life, and how you should stop and smell the roses sometimes, to cherish life.
P: This is a narrative lyric that tells a story about a girl with a rough life. However she uses her savings from when she works at the convenience store to find happiness with her lover in a bigger, brighter place. In the end the unhappy boy and girl become happy, get married and have kids. The husband, however, becomes an alcoholic just like the wife's father.Which reminds her how she dropped out of school to support him when he could not support her. This must also remind her about the strength she has to be able to get to where she is today and she doesn't want to be like that ever again, so she uses that strength to divorce her husband, so he can find his way to a better place too.
C:
Simile: “The speed so fast I thought that I was drunk” (Chapman 30). This is a simile referring to how the car was going so fast she could not see properly. This simile is important in the lyrics because it shows how rough her life was, and as soon as she got a way to leave, she left and drove away as soon as she could, which explains why she was driving so fast.
Metaphor: “But is it fast enough so we can fly away” (Chapman 26). This is a metaphor towards a better life and very quickly. Flying seems so graceful and elegant, which is why it is used to get to the better, more elegant life. The girl just wants a better life as fast as she can because compared to where she is right now, she basically would like to fly to heaven, and this is her hell.
Point of View:'So I quit school and thats what I did” (Chapman 24). The point of view in this narrative is in
Date: Wednesday, September 18th,2013
ENG2D
Fast Car
By: Tracy Chapman
T: Based on the name of the title, I predict that the lyrical poem is about the fast ride through life, and how you should stop and smell the roses sometimes, to cherish life.
P: This is a narrative lyric that tells a story about a girl with a rough life. However she uses her savings from when she works at the convenience store to find happiness with her lover in a bigger, brighter place. In the end the unhappy boy and girl become happy, get married and have kids. The husband, however, becomes an alcoholic just like the wife's father.Which reminds her how she dropped out of school to support him when he could not support her. This must also remind her about the strength she has to be able to get to where she is today and she doesn't want to be like that ever again, so she uses that strength to divorce her husband, so he can find his way to a better place too.
C:
Simile: “The speed so fast I thought that I was drunk” (Chapman 30). This is a simile referring to how the car was going so fast she could not see properly. This simile is important in the lyrics because it shows how rough her life was, and as soon as she got a way to leave, she left and drove away as soon as she could, which explains why she was driving so fast.
Metaphor: “But is it fast enough so we can fly away” (Chapman 26). This is a metaphor towards a better life and very quickly. Flying seems so graceful and elegant, which is why it is used to get to the better, more elegant life. The girl just wants a better life as fast as she can because compared to where she is right now, she basically would like to fly to heaven, and this is her hell.
Point of View:'So I quit school and thats what I did” (Chapman 24). The point of view in this narrative is in