Tupac Shakur was famous rapper that died unfortunately. His songs and poems were very famous. One of his famous poems being "The Rose That Grew From the Concrete". In this poem, Tupac talks about the admiration a rose gets from growing from the concrete. He compares himself to the rose and argues that he does not get the same admiration that that rose gets despite their same situation. Tupac's message is that America in general is already fixed on the views of people coming from the same background as him.
Shakur delivers this message by the use rhetorical devices juxtaposition, metaphors and hypophora. An object that stands out metaphorically speaking and physically is called juxtaposition. In this case the rose growing out of the concrete is the juxtaposition. A metaphor was present when Shakur then says that he himself is that rose, the rose that still grew despite coming from a hard background. To prove his point further, Shakur asks the reader why he does not get the same praise the rose does and gives the reader an indirect answer, "...so why is it that when you see a ghetto kid grow out of the dirtiest circumstance...all you can talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how I am leaning crooked to the side. You can't even see that I've come up from out of that."
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