The Observation Car
...ing.” (Line 29) “The future is rumour and drivel; only the past is assured”. (Line 33-34) “Wondering where we are going and just where the hell we are”. (Line 36) Remembering how I planned to break the journey, to drive my own car one day, to have choice in my hands and my foot upon power”. (Lines 37-38) In line 1, the ticket is being used as a metaphor for fate, and is saying that he is accepting his own fate by taking the ticket. He says he was put on the train by the path he chose. In lines 13-14, life is being viewed as boring and repetitive and that the same things keep happening over and over again. In line 16, a simile is being used to compare the clock to his life as a boring and repetitive object it is saying the same thing about his life. (Line 16) In lines 17-20, he’s getting weak from trying to escape his fate and is starting to learn how to accept it. He wants to get off the train but realizes that it’s the path that he picked and he can’t go back and change the past. The train is repetitive by stopping at the same stations just like his life is being repetitive by going from Monday to Friday every week. In line 29, it says that he’s lost his faith in fate telling him where he’s going and that the future in uncertain. Line 33-34 says that in the future you don’t know what’s going to happen but you can’t change the past because it’s already happened. Line 36 states that he doesn’t know where the future’s leading him and he doesn’t know where he is right now. In lines 37-38, he looks to the past and remembers when he had the choice of either driving the car or being a passenger on the train. The train represents no choice and one constant path which is being controlled by someone else. The car is being used as a metaphor as to having choices and being able to create your own path. If he picked the car he would’ve known his destination because he’s controlling it. Now he’s regretting not choosing the car and he’s learning how to accept the c...