Complete 2 page APA formatted essay: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf.Download file to see previous pages... As the report declares The work literally echoes with

Complete 2 page APA formatted essay: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf.

As the report declares The work literally echoes with the outcries of black women, yearning for understanding, craving for acceptance, and begging not to be judged for something they did not do, something they did not assist in, yet something that has been tagged around their necks, dragging them to embrace a doom they do not deserve - suicide. Ntozake Shange, who herself attempted suicide several times after separating from her husband in 19661, is thus well placed to describe the churning feelings of desperation that makes the women in her poem contemplate suicide.

This paper stresses that Ntozake Shange’s work however, does exhibit a few drawbacks. It presents a fragmented view of black life. It shows signs of weakness in terms of depth of content and character development. Toussaint L’Ouverture is the only black male in the poem shown in a positive light. Most other black men are looked upon as sub-human creatures with serious personality defects. They are represented as beasts who will lie, seduce, beat, rape and abandon women. As for black women, they are looked upon as deficient in mental development. They do not understand, and cannot understand, the socio-psychological reasons behind the behavior of their assaulters. Black women are generally considered as overwrought and overacting, never seeming to question why they allow themselves to be abused. “There is some lack of variety in the selection of material. and excess of concern within romance and sex, music and dancing, even considering that the work is about young women.