Colored Girls Analysis For Colored Girls Who have considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf was written by Ntozake Shange.
Theme One; colored ladies especially black ladies encounter and struggle soo much in their everyday life. They don’t give up; they endure until they achieve their goals. Shange used devices such as Repetition, Visual Image and Rythm Considering all things, Repetition is used by Shange throughout the text to illustrate self-actualization from different difficulties Black women experience. In “Somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff” (Shange 63), Shange used this about six times to show the emphasis on how these women felt about themselves once they found love, once they found truly who they really were inside …show more content…
It is utilizes to illustrate a picture in the readers mind as he or she reads to show moments in these Black women’s lives. For example, in the poem “a nite with beau willie brown” Shange wrote “ I stood by beau in the window with Naomi reaching for me/and Kwame screaming mommy mommy from the fifth story/but I could only whisper/and he dropped them” (Shange 84). As the reader reads, he/she gets the picture or sense of what is happening in this scene. The use of imagery emphasis the actions and feeling. Shange emphasis that it is fine to crave the same things men want without justification. On the other hand, another device that Shange also used was rhythm. Rhythm is a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound. It is also the systematic arrangement of musical sounds, principally according to duration and periodic stress. Rhythm is very important when describing women, it is used in all the poems and it demonstrate courage, passion, and self-actualization. It allows women to have heads held high even in some uncomfortable situations. This illustrates the strength and passion they have within themselves. Above all, these three device help point out the them of the book which is to persevere and to always find your true
Theme One; colored ladies especially black ladies encounter and struggle soo much in their everyday life. They don’t give up; they endure until they achieve their goals. Shange used devices such as Repetition, Visual Image and Rythm Considering all things, Repetition is used by Shange throughout the text to illustrate self-actualization from different difficulties Black women experience. In “Somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff” (Shange 63), Shange used this about six times to show the emphasis on how these women felt about themselves once they found love, once they found truly who they really were inside …show more content…
It is utilizes to illustrate a picture in the readers mind as he or she reads to show moments in these Black women’s lives. For example, in the poem “a nite with beau willie brown” Shange wrote “ I stood by beau in the window with Naomi reaching for me/and Kwame screaming mommy mommy from the fifth story/but I could only whisper/and he dropped them” (Shange 84). As the reader reads, he/she gets the picture or sense of what is happening in this scene. The use of imagery emphasis the actions and feeling. Shange emphasis that it is fine to crave the same things men want without justification. On the other hand, another device that Shange also used was rhythm. Rhythm is a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound. It is also the systematic arrangement of musical sounds, principally according to duration and periodic stress. Rhythm is very important when describing women, it is used in all the poems and it demonstrate courage, passion, and self-actualization. It allows women to have heads held high even in some uncomfortable situations. This illustrates the strength and passion they have within themselves. Above all, these three device help point out the them of the book which is to persevere and to always find your true