The Book And The Lyrics
John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men is a novel that can be closely related to a song by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. This song is called “Waiting” and is extremely powerful. While analyzing the two pieces of writing, there are many ideas and themes that can be linked together. Both song and novel have many different outlooks on life and relationships one person can encounter. Within the song, there are lines that can be directed as the same as Of Mice and Men. The two are superlatively alike in the aspect of relation; they both show sorrow, change and the mind of a man in confusion.
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus’s song “Waiting” starts with sorrow and the feelings that is accompany with it. The sorrow of life’s past occurrences is one idea that is played through out. “Feeling sorrow . . . Bring back the days we had before tomorrow/relapse and then collapse into yourself once more.” (Winter) These lines of this song are saying that when feeling sorrow, it brings......
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