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For Colored Girls directed by Tyler Perry in 2010, is an adaption of Ntozake Shange’s 1975 choreopoem, â€Å"For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf.† A choreopoem is a combination of poetry, dance, and music intended to perform on a stage, that was originally written as a poem. Shange’s choreopoem was considered a Broadway sensation that won an Obie and Tony Award. The purpose of her choreopoem was to show how women of color of the twentieth century were oppressed and maintained courage throughout their trials. Tyler Perry integrated Shange’s vivid language from her poem into a contemporary narrative that also explored what it means to be a woman of color. There are seven characters in the poem and nine in the†¦show more content†¦Kelly is a social worker who went to visit Crystal about the safety of her children because of her daughter’s consecutive visits to the hospital. While Kelly is there to visit Cryst al, her alcoholic boyfriend, Beau Willie, kicks her out. Once Kelly is put out of Crystal’s apartment, she has a small encounter with the building tenant and the neighbor, Gilda, where she informs Kelly of Beau Willie’s wrong doing. While this is going on Juanita arrive to break off her affair with her lover, Frank, and Alice arrives to visit her daughter, Tangie, to ask for some money. After Alice is turned down by Tangie, she then takes on the streets to try and raise money, where she encounters Yasmine and her man-friend, who gives her money, but is also Alice’s younger daughter, Nyla’s, dance instructor. Nyla, is a young woman who just graduated high school and is seen at first giving a story about her graduation night and losing her virginity. Then, later we see Miss Juanita, waiting at Joanna’s office at Robe Rouge, a magazine company, where Crystal is her assistant to try and fundraise money for her non-profit organization involving womenâ⠂¬â„¢s health care. As the movie goes on, we can then see each individual women’s story. Beginning with Kelly, who is trying to have a baby with her husband, but is finds out she is unable to. We are then shown, Juanita who is giving advice at the hospital giving aShow MoreRelatedFor Colored Girls Essay1180 Words   |  5 PagesFor colored girls (FCG) is Tyler Perry’s adaption to Shange’s first and most acclaimed, theater piece. Shange’s original work was not so much of a play with an ongoing plot; rather, it consist of a series of emotional poetic monologues accompanied with dance movements and music. Shange called her work a â€Å"choreopoem.† The original work by Shange and Perry’s adaption deal with black feminism and what it means to be a black women living in America. 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Hurston uses descriptive language, metaphors, and symbols to help the reader empathize with her experience rather than simply understand it at a factual level. The narrative structure and emotional-perspective style Hurston use s makes the events easy to followRead MoreGirl And How It Feels To Be Colored Me By Zora Neale Hurston1337 Words   |  6 PagesIn this essay I will be discussing the theme of individual versus society from â€Å"Girl† by Jamaica Kinkaid and â€Å"How It Feels to Be Colored Me† by Zora Neale Hurston. Both of the protagonists seem to battle their individual selves and what society expects from them. Both of the women are young black woman, who are being told what they should look like or act. 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The movie has many deep themes however, one major theme was the similarities between the treatment of the â€Å"colored† in Pleasantville and minority groups such as blacks in America during the 50s and 60s. There are two more groups that also had similar treatments to that of the† colored† in Pleasantville and the real world such as the LGBT community and religious groups. Despite, Pleasantville being meant to a perfect town and problem free the reality