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    The document is a graduate school paper analyzing the song "Michael in the Bathroom" from the musical Be More Chill. It provides context that the song depicts the main character Michael feeling alone at a party and hiding in the bathroom. Textual evidence from the song lyrics is presented to show Michael feeling like an outsider and wanting to leave. The paper also discusses the use of onomatopoeia in the song's lyrics to represent sounds.

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    The document is a graduate school paper analyzing the song "Michael in the Bathroom" from the musical Be More Chill. It provides context that the song depicts the main character Michael feeling alone at a party and hiding in the bathroom. Textual evidence from the song lyrics is presented to show Michael feeling like an outsider and wanting to leave. The paper also discusses the use of onomatopoeia in the song's lyrics to represent sounds.

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    The document is a graduate school paper analyzing the song "Michael in the Bathroom" from the musical Be More Chill. It provides context that the song depicts the main character Michael feeling alone at a party and hiding in the bathroom. Textual evidence from the song lyrics is presented to show Michael feeling like an outsider and wanting to leave. The paper also discusses the use of onomatopoeia in the song's lyrics to represent sounds.

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    Don Honorio Ventura State University: Graduate School

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    Don Honorio Ventura State University

    Villa de Bacolor, Pampanga, Philippines, 2001

    GRADUATE SCHOOL
    “Opening Minds, Progressing Technologies, Creating Brighter Future.”

    NAME: Rodalyn Joy M. Dizon DATE: March 20, 2021

    PROGRAM: MAEd-English 1-A INSTRUCTOR: Prof. Ian Flora

    “Michael in the Bathroom”


    Be More Chill (George Salazar)

    INTERPRETATION

    CONTEXT:

    ‘Michael in the Bathroom’ is a song of Be More Chill starring George Salazar (Michael)
    who felt alone during a party with his friend. The whole time, he hid inside a bathroom
    thinking that he should’ve just stayed at home instead of attending a party where he does
    not belong. He wanted the time to pass by so fast so that the party will come to an end and
    he’ll be able to come out and just go home. There is regret on his part for coming to that
    party but as the song goes by, I can say that there is acceptance in his part that a present
    situation can somehow be different from the past.

    TEXTUAL EVIDENCE:

    The textual evidence in this song is that Michael faces the life challenge of being alone, out
    and unaccepted. We can notice this on the following lines of the song:

    I could stay right here or disappear, and nobody'd even notice at all
    I'm a creeper in a bathroom 'cause my buddy kinda left me alone
    But I'd rather fake pee than stand awkwardly, or pretend to check a text on my phone

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    Don Honorio Ventura State University
    Villa de Bacolor, Pampanga, Philippines, 2001

    GRADUATE SCHOOL
    “Opening Minds, Progressing Technologies, Creating Brighter Future.”

    Based on the lyrics, it is clear that Michael feels out of place during the party so he’d
    rather stay inside the bathroom since no one is there to join or accompany him and no
    one will ever notice if he’s still present in the party or not.

    I'm waiting it out 'til it's time to leave


    And picking at grout as I softly grieve
    I'm just Michael who you don't know, Michael flyin' solo, Michael in the bathroom by himself

    In here, it is directly stated that Michael is in the bathroom by himself and is solo in all the
    thoughts that wander in his mind. Not feeling that sense of belongingness makes him feel
    the grief of staying inside a place where he is actually out.

    FIGURE OF SPEECH

    The figure of speech in this song is mainly onomatopoeia which is by definition, the
    naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it.

    ‘Michael in the Bathroom’ song contains the usage of onomatopoeia and these are the:

    Knock, knock, knock, knock

    Clang, clang, clang, clang

    Bang, bang, bang, bang

    Splash, splash, splash, splash

    This song is basically intended to open up the minds of the listeners that teenagers
    (mostly but not limited to) that there will come a time that we may feel out of place,
    looking for attention and sense of belongingness but we still have ourselves. We still got
    the courage to overcome the things that we fear through the most possible way we may
    think of. We must love ourselves and never rely our happiness to others. We still have a
    long way to go rather than pleasing others just for the trend of being ‘in’ always.

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