For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide Summary

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Author Ntozake Shange presented a choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf with a colorful vast amount of voices from women. A rainbow of stories offers a vivid image of external conflicts. The scenes are driven by emotional rhythmic movements and colorful backgrounds. The rhythmic movements and themes are interpreted by the journey of identity, rape, abortion, sexuality, and darkness of the colored girls.
The rhythmic movements of the rainbow of women, who will recite latent rapist, abortion cycle, and serchita and so forth offers the audience the dark stories. For instance, latent rapist allowed a domino effect of voices, which ultimately gives movement to that specific story. The lady in blue,

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