The Rose That Grew from Concrete
The Rose That Grew From Concrete
Tupac Shakur was a black African American rapper who lived his life with poverty, violence and drugs. Tupac Shakur was born in New York City. His parents had separated before he was born, and his mother moved him and his sister around the country for much of their childhood. Frequently, the family was at the poverty level, but Shakur managed to gain acceptance to the prestigious Baltimore School of the Arts as a teenager. While he was at the school, his creative side flourished, as he began writing raps and acting. All his poetry relies on vivid imagery and violent language to create a very realistic picture of how terrible life can be living in the ghettos of America. Tupac Shakur was a poet, an actor, and the voice of a generation. He was able to make movies and videos, write and record music, and still found time to write remarkable poetry before his untimely death. In one of his poems, “The Rose That Grew from Concrete, Tupac’s theme statement is “people surrounded by trouble and failure can still live and succeed”. This is almost an exact reflection of struggle for success. People who come from broken homes, troubled youth, failed pasts or other tough backgrounds still can succeed and make something beautiful of their life.
“The Rose That Grew from Concrete” is not really about a rose that grew from the concrete. The rose is a simile which symbolizes a man and the concrete symbolizes the ghetto. Tupac is that rose who borned in an urban area. A rose would never grow from concrete and by this he means to say that it is really hard to survive the hard life of the ghetto and make something out of yourself. The second line “proving nature’s laws wrong it learned 2 walk without having feet” means that the person has made something out of himself. This line conveys a personal struggle between him and success. “Nature’s law” is a metaphor for people, which mean that no one expected the man to survive and can
Tupac Shakur was a black African American rapper who lived his life with poverty, violence and drugs. Tupac Shakur was born in New York City. His parents had separated before he was born, and his mother moved him and his sister around the country for much of their childhood. Frequently, the family was at the poverty level, but Shakur managed to gain acceptance to the prestigious Baltimore School of the Arts as a teenager. While he was at the school, his creative side flourished, as he began writing raps and acting. All his poetry relies on vivid imagery and violent language to create a very realistic picture of how terrible life can be living in the ghettos of America. Tupac Shakur was a poet, an actor, and the voice of a generation. He was able to make movies and videos, write and record music, and still found time to write remarkable poetry before his untimely death. In one of his poems, “The Rose That Grew from Concrete, Tupac’s theme statement is “people surrounded by trouble and failure can still live and succeed”. This is almost an exact reflection of struggle for success. People who come from broken homes, troubled youth, failed pasts or other tough backgrounds still can succeed and make something beautiful of their life.
“The Rose That Grew from Concrete” is not really about a rose that grew from the concrete. The rose is a simile which symbolizes a man and the concrete symbolizes the ghetto. Tupac is that rose who borned in an urban area. A rose would never grow from concrete and by this he means to say that it is really hard to survive the hard life of the ghetto and make something out of yourself. The second line “proving nature’s laws wrong it learned 2 walk without having feet” means that the person has made something out of himself. This line conveys a personal struggle between him and success. “Nature’s law” is a metaphor for people, which mean that no one expected the man to survive and can