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Symbolism In Tracy Chapman's Song 'Fast Car'

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Similarly, to Billy Elliot, Tracy Chapman’s song fast car depicts the desperate need of a transition in order to develop strength, integrity and develop an open mind-set. It is established within the title “fast car” that the car is a symbolic image, representing the need of an escape from current life. Symbolically cars represent freedom. The allegory positions the audience to view that the situation is only temporary; a pathway leading to something positive. It is through the image of the car does it provide the opportunity to travel, move and to physically transition into a new life. The symbolic imagery “city lights lay out before us” determines that the narrator has reached her goal leaving poverty, they have finally escaped their old
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