GOW+Ch17+song



whenever i step outside, somebody claims to see the light
 * Hoobastank - Same Direction Lyrics**

it seems to me that all of us have lost our patience.

'cause everyone thinks they're right, and nobody thinks that there just might

be more than one road to our final destination

but i'm not ever going to know if i'm right or wrong

'cause we're all going in the same direction

and i'm not sure which way to go because all along

we've been going in the same direction

i'm tired of playing games, of looking for someone else to blame

for all the holes in answers that are clearly showing

for something to fill the space, was all of the time i spent a waste 'cause so many choices point the same way i was going.....

but i'm not ever going to know if i'm right or wrong

'cause we're all going in the same direction

and i'm not sure which way to go because all along

we've been going in the same direction

going in the same direction

same direction....

so why does there only have to be one correct philosophy?

i don't want to go and follow you just to end up like one of them

and why are you always telling me what you want me to believe?

i'd like to think that i can go my own way and meet you in the end.

go my own way and meet you in the end

but i'm not ever going to know if i'm right or wrong

'cause we're all going in the same direction

and i'm not sure which way to go because all along

we've been going in the same direction

going in the same direction

going in the same direction....

same direction.....


 * Analysis:**

This song can show the feelings of the migrant farmers, who are all traveling to California for the exact same reasons. To get a job, make money, and find a new home, because they were kicked off their homeland. This song can also represent the doubt that the migrant farmers start to feel in Chapter 17, and that Tom and Pa start to feel in the end of Chapter 16. “I don't want to go and follow you just to end up like one of them,” can represent the feelings that Pa Joad and Tom have when they meet the other migrant workers or the rude men who degrade the Joads by calling them “dirty sons of bitches” and “okies (which meant scum)”. “I'd like to think that i can go my own way and meet you in the end.” This can depict Caseys future feelings about helping the migrant workers; he did his own thing, but still met up with the Joads in the end.