The world is a weird place and getting weirder all the time. In Paul Simon’s “The Boy in the Bubble” which was released in 1987. Simon expresses the craziness of what the world has become. This poem’s unifying theme is alienation which is being created by rapid changes, a lack of understanding of the world, and fragmentation and imbalance in life. Through the things that have been there forever mixed with the new things that have appeared very suddenly. If it is “The bomb in the baby carriage,” “The days of lasers in the jungle” there is a weird feeling to these things. The first stanza is mainly focused on the PLO or the Palestinian Liberation Organization in 1986. The scene in this stanza is in Israel. There are soldiers from the Israeli army patrolling road. A terrorist has left a baby stroller that has a bomb hooked up to a radio timer. There is an allusion to Israel here, and there is alliteration in the words bright and light. The following quotation uses imagery to describe what happens next: “There was a bright light a shattering of shop windows” this leads to thoughts of a bright explosion. This all relates to the bigger picture that there is a lack of understanding in the world. For example in the Middle East where this takes place, there is very little new technology and it is basically the Stone Age. Now back to the point without understanding there is confusion and this all leads to a lack of peace. This is how terrorist come about. The next stanza says the