Carrie Underwood's Song 'Jesus Take The Wheel'

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In Carrie Underwood’s song “Jesus Take the Wheel,” she talks about how someone she knows is losing control of her life because of a very bad car crash and she needs help from Jesus to help her recover. The girl that was in the car crash nearly died and her boyfriend (now her husband) wrote a song about how it was really difficult for her to improve her health and how she needs Jesus to help her through this time. In hopes that his wife would soon get better, he wrote the song “Jesus Take the Wheel” for her and it has won one Grammy Award so far.
The main idea of “Jesus Take the Wheel” (Carrie Underwood) is about this woman’s life and how hard her life is at the beginning of the song and how she turns to Jesus and asks for his forgiveness and …show more content…

In the lyrics of this song, Carrie Underwood uses figurative language to help the listeners interpret the theme, or main idea, of “Jesus Take the Wheel.”  Some literary devices that Carrie Underwood uses in her song are imagery, metaphor, simile, repetition, and symbolism. For example, “Before she knew it she was spinning on a thin black sheet of glass” (Carrie Underwood) is referring to imagery and the car accident she was in at the start of the song. “And save me from this road I’m on” (Carrie Underwood) is a metaphor, which is interpreting how she is on a bad path and she needs Jesus to help her get back on track. Another example is “baby in the backseat sleeping like a rock” (Carrie Underwood) which is a simile referring to her baby sleeping so soundly that he didn’t even wake up when she had a car accident. Another one of the literary devices is repetition and it is utilized when Carrie Underwood sings “Jesus, take the wheel/ Take it from my hands/ ‘Cause I can’t do this on my
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own/ I’m letting go/ So give me one more chance/ And save me from this road I’m on” (Carrie Underwood). The last literary device that is used in “Jesus Take the Wheel” is symbolism, which can be seen when she sings “Jesus, take the wheel.” This is symbolism because when the girl

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