For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Gruszynski, Maysie Hoy, Aaron Zigman, and Ntozake Shange. For Colored Girls. Santa Monica, Calif: Lionsgate, 2011. Tyler Perry’s movie adaptation of Ntozake Shange poem, for colored girls… a group of black women, most of whom live in the same Harlem apartment building, faces personal crises, heartbreak and other challenges. Crystal faces an unhappy existence as an abused lover. Jo is a successful magazine

inherited conflict between families is put on display with the stories; For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf, Fences, and Jazz portray a variety of characters who seek comfort in with relationships, yet never appear to receive love in return. For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf The play For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf is a piece written by Ntozake Shange that displays seven different African

For 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 “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. The poems deal with love, abandonment, domestic violence

For this assignment, I chose a modern day film that affected me personally on so many levels. I chose For Colored Girls by Tyler Perry because I could see so much of myself in the characters.The movie is based on Ntozake Shange's play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf." Tyler Perry uses twenty characters to live out the poems in the film. Each deal with pressing issues that affect women of color. I'm sure that many other women of color can relate to many of the

“…And this is for colored girls who have considered suicide but are moving to the end of their own rainbow…” (Perry: For Colored Girls, 2010). For colored girls was first written and performed as a play by Ntozake Shange in 1977. It was then called “for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow was enuf”. Tyler Perry adapted and transformed it into a movie in 2010. For colored girls is centered on nine women as they encounter their fair share of neglect, abuse, pain and harassment

For colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf express feelings from seven different women and the pain that they go through. These women with each other formed a bond through their different suffering taking them from strangers to associate.Women experience a lot of animosity throughout their lives. From being lied to, raped, beaten, let down just hurt just because. This movie gave a vigorous slight of family life and they were many families illustrates in this movie.

The characters between the two adaptations are portrayed in contrasting ways due to the diverse cast. In the 1981’s adaption of For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Enuf the characters are all their own entity keeping each story separate. While the actors and actresses remain the same through the entire film, the characters come from a variety of backgrounds including half Latino women to a young woman receiving an abortion. These stories are cohesive only through the actions

Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf tells, through spoken word and movement, snippets of the stories of a number of women of color, that number being simultaneously one, seven, and the entire population of “colored girls” in america. In highlighting different aspects of the experience of the woman of color in the 1970s (though there is nothing specifically 70s about the stories; they have a feeling of timelessness

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Collaborating made me realize that sometimes a discussion can have too much structure. Plans inevitably change. My discussion did not go as I originally planned. Through leading the class, I realized that one concrete direction solely based upon what one person thinks should be discussed can be limiting. Although coming prepared and well versed in the subject matter is important, giving space for people to talk about what they deem relevant can produce a more powerful discussion than forcing people