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    The passage discusses the poem "The Rose That Grew From Concrete" by Tupac Shakur. It notes that the word "autobiographical" in the title suggests the poet experienced something similar to a rose growing in concrete. It analyzes that the rose personifies human actions like walking and breathing. The rose symbolizes hope, mirrored by the four skinny trees in Esperanza's story. The concrete symbolizes constraints, like the trees' roots. A theme is that objects can bring warmth to people, shown through direct quotes about the rose and trees providing understanding.

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    The passage discusses the poem "The Rose That Grew From Concrete" by Tupac Shakur. It notes that the word "autobiographical" in the title suggests the poet experienced something similar to a rose growing in concrete. It analyzes that the rose personifies human actions like walking and breathing. The rose symbolizes hope, mirrored by the four skinny trees in Esperanza's story. The concrete symbolizes constraints, like the trees' roots. A theme is that objects can bring warmth to people, shown through direct quotes about the rose and trees providing understanding.

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    The passage discusses the poem "The Rose That Grew From Concrete" by Tupac Shakur. It notes that the word "autobiographical" in the title suggests the poet experienced something similar to a rose growing in concrete. It analyzes that the rose personifies human actions like walking and breathing. The rose symbolizes hope, mirrored by the four skinny trees in Esperanza's story. The concrete symbolizes constraints, like the trees' roots. A theme is that objects can bring warmth to people, shown through direct quotes about the rose and trees providing understanding.

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    The House on Mango Street

    Four Skinny Trees

    RL 10.2: Determine a theme of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of
    the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details.

    Directions: After finishing “Four Skinny Trees” (74), read the poem “The Rose That Grew From
    Concrete” below by Tupac Shakur. There are several connections between Esperanza’s
    telling of vignette and this poem. Can you find them? Answer each question in complete
    sentences.

    1) The word “autobiographical” appears underneath the title of the poem. Why
    do you think Shakur (poet) added the word autobiographical to the title of
    the poem?

    the author used the word “autobiographical” because they have seen something
    similar to a rose between concrete. the used this word so readers understand that
    they dealt with something like this.
    The House on Mango Street
    Four Skinny Trees

    Directions: After reading the poem above, answer the following questions in complete
    sentences.

    2) What types of things does the rose do? What type of figurative language is
    this?

    it learned how to walk without having feet and learned how to breathe fresh air.
    this is an example of personification because its non-human doing human like
    things.

    3) What does the rose symbolize? What object in “Four Skinny Trees” represents
    the same thing?
    the “rose” in the “four skinny trees” are the trees themselves. they represent her
    hopefulness.

    4) What does the concrete symbolize? Find the sentence in “Four Skinny Trees”
    that connects to this same idea.
    the concrete symbolizes something holding it down and not letting it move. in the
    passage of “four skinny trees” the roots are the concrete holding the trees down.

    5) Lastly, create a theme statement that could apply to both pieces. Support it
    by using a direct quote from both “The Rose That Grew From Concrete” and
    “Four Skinny Trees”.

    the theme statement is ''objects can bring warmth in people hearts.'' the texts say
    "long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared''."they
    are the only ones who understand me. i am the ones that understands them four
    skinny trees.'' this shows that these two object fascinates and brings warmth to
    these authors.

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