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Frida Kahlo Flower

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A Flower from the Ashes OR Beauty Through Fire Frida Kahlo was a phoenix. Phoenixes are mythical birds, often with flaming feathers, but by far, the most interesting quality of a phoenix is its death. When a phoenix dies, it burns up into a heap of ashes. Then, from the ashes a new baby phoenix is born. In a way, this is a perfect metaphor for Frida Kahlo and her life. When Frida burned in life, it didn’t just end there. After Frida’s accident, her world fell apart. Instead of an ending though, for Frida, it was a new beginning. Using her sorrow and mixing it with joy she grew a flower from her ashes, she rose again a new bird. Frida Kahlo used her pain to create beauty. The childhood of Frida Kahlo was not standard by any means. As was much of her life, it was colorful, eclectic, and full of tragedy. The first deviance from the ordinary was contracting polio at age six. Frida recovered, but not before being permanently scarred, with her right foot stunted and her right leg frailer than her left (Tuchman). The next was that her father encouraged her masculine interests, pushing her to try things unusual for a girl. He could tell that she was intelligent, and unlike many …show more content…

Her father also taught her photography and got her drawing lessons through a friend (Tuchman). By 1922, Kahlo was fifteen and one of the few girls entered in the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria. She was taking classes to become a doctor, an unheard of goal for a woman in Mexico at the time (Lindauer). On top of everything, at seventeen Frida was active in a student political group and romantically involved with it’s leader, Alejandro Gómez Arias (Lindauer). However, on September 17, 1925 Frida Kahlo’s life changed forever. She was riding home with her boyfriend, when the bus they were in was rammed by a trolley car. Several people died, and Frida’s pelvis was stabbed by a broken off handrail. She was hospitalized with a fractured

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