To Pimp a Butterfly is Kendrick Lamar’s second major label studio album, and third full-length project. It was released via Top Dawg Entertainment, Aftermath Entertainment, and Interscope Records. It followed his two previous critically-acclaimed projects: Section 80 and Good Kid M.A.A.D. City. In contrast to Lamar’s previous projects, TPAB took more heavily from jazz, soul, and funk influences, with such contributors as Thundercat, Terrace Martin, Kamasi Washington, and Flying Lotus providing instrumentation and production. Other noteworthy credits include vocals from Anna Wise, Bilal, George Clinton, James Fauntleroy, Rapsody, Ronald Isley of the The Isley Brothers, Snoop Dogg, and a posthumous appearance from 2Pac. This album’s concept …show more content…
Wings begin to emerge, breaking the cycle of feeling stagnant Finally free, the butterfly sheds light on situations that the caterpillar never considered, ending the internal struggle Although the butterfly and caterpillar are completely different They are one and the same" …show more content…
When Kendrick was a caterpillar, or “walking”, he was broke living in Compton. By discovering his rap abilities, he made something of himself and inspired people all over the world. This represents Kendrick’s transformation into a butterfly and flying away from the cocoon of Compton. The caterpillar(s) on the other hand can be multiple things, people from Compton or the wealthy people using Kendrick for their benefit. Caterpillars have yet to transform and realise their potential in life. In order to survive, they consume everything around them, destroying their environment. This is supported by the lines right before the hook in “King Kunta” in which he says “true friends, one question”. He asks the caterpillar, people who didn’t support him at first, why they all of a sudden are with him now that he has fame and fortune. They want to pimp him out and make money off him, causing Kendrick to make sacrifices in the process. In “King Kunta” Kendrick also says: Everybody wanna cut the legs off him, Kunta Black man taking no losses This line is a metaphor for Kendrick’s sacrifice for money. The legs getting chopped off can also be compared to a butterfly’s wings getting clipped as well, and of course ties into Kunta Kinte’s
In the Time of the Butterflies is a historical fiction novel by Julia Alvarez based on events that occurred during the rule of Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. This book shows the hardships the Mirabal Sisters had to go through while being part of an underground effort to overthrow the dictatorship of Trujillo. It also shows that ultimately, it was their courage that brought upon their own death. Alvarez wants us to understand anyone and everyone has the potential to be courageous.
for a wild ride through their lives from their point of view. "In the Time of the Butterflies" is about
... acoustic jam that had the crowd swaying to its lifting rhythms and happy-go-lucky lyrics. He then promised to play a little bit of “East Coast and West Coast hip-hop,” a promise he fulfilled near the end of his set by covering a song from both A$AP Rocky and Kendrick Lamar.
In both stories the butterfly dies, this is a key similarity to the plot of the movie and the short story because this would immensely change the plot and the structure of the movie. The butterfly is the main cause of most conflict in the movie, if this were to be changed, this would completely contrast the movie from the short story. The setting of the movie is in 2055 which is the identical to the short story, this similarity helps retain the futuristic storyline of the short story. Eckles is portrayed as a very nervous character in both the movie and the short story. For those who have read the short story, we know that Eckles is the one who steps on the butterfly, but in the movie Middleton is the one who ends up killing the butterfly. This was very surprising as a reader of the short story, because of how nervous Eckles was in the movie, it seemed like Eckles was going to end up killing the butterfly like the short
Two weeks is all it takes for a caterpillar to completely transition into a butterfly. Compared to our span of life, this seems like a rushed transition; however, there are certain ways that humans can change just as quickly as a caterpillar. Although these are not physical changes like the caterpillars, they still remain significant. In the novel In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez the characters experience changes in values, personal opinions, and political views. The character Patria fits the image of a butterfly as she rapidly changes in result of certain situations . Over the course of the book Patria quickly undergoes several momentous changes as she alters her political stance and values.
Alvarez, Julia. In The Time of the Butterflies. New York, NY: Penguin, 1994. Print Hardback. 31 Oct 2013 - 8 Dec 2013.
The butterfly effect is an idea that if something was changed in the past it would completely change what happens in the future. The allusion is shown when Mr. Travis and the group notice how much things have changed when they got back to present time. Mr. Travis looked at Eckles boot and noticed that there was a dead butterfly on the bottom of the boot. Then, Mr. Travis realised that killing that butterfly was the reason that the present had completely changed. In the story it says, “It fell on the floor, exquisite thing, a small thing that could upset balances and knock down a line of small dominoes and then gigantic dominoes, all down the years across time”
It is clearly apparent that "The Moths" is not only the title, but also an important piece of the story which embodies its central theme. The moths become the catalyst that gives identity to the grandmother and her granddaughter, bringing revelation, security, rebirth, and the desire to be reunited. The grandmother, in becoming a moth herself, leaves some of herself behind with her grandchild.
While staying at Mel’s home, the adolescent female narrator personifies the butterfly paperweight. The life cycle begins with the narrator “hearing” the butterfly sounds, and believing the butterfly is alive. The butterfly mirrors the narrator’s feelings of alienation and immobility amongst her ‘new family’ in America. She is convinced the butterfly is alive, although trapped inside thick glass (le 25). The thick glass mirrors the image of clear, still water. To the adolescent girl, the thick glass doesn’t stop the sounds of the butterfly from coming through; however, her father counteracts this with the idea of death, “…can’t do much for a dead butterfly” (le 31). In order to free the butterfly, the narrator throws the disk at a cabinet of glass animals, shattering the paperweight, as well as the glass animals. The shattering of the glass connects to the shattering of her being, and her experience in fragility. The idea of bringing the butterfly back to life was useless, as the motionless butterfly laid there “like someone expert at holding his breath or playing dead” (le 34). This sense of rebirth becomes ironic as the butterfly did not come back to life as either being reborn or as the manifestation of a ghostly spirit; instead its cyclic existence permeates through the narrator creating a transformative
Lastly Kendrick Lamar’s piece Good kid m.A.A.d City is a coming of age story from the view of teenage Kendrick living in Compton, California. This album shows the dark side of Kendrick’s life as well as his lighter moments of aspiration. There are vivid depictions of violence that he endured as a teen as well as the influence of money and power. Also in this album, he shows how easily influenced he was when he and his friends break into a home in the track ‘The Art of Peer
her grandmother) and grief, Viramontes successfully paints an endearing tale of change. “The Moths” emphasizes the narrator’s oppression by her
The son, like a butterfly, is the beautiful hope found in the mother’s shame and oppression that results from prostitution. She hopes for a safer, more respectable life for her son. By nourishing the future generation, she hopes for freedom from the degrading society she knows. Moreover, in the stories following, Danticat continues the idea of hope for the future generations. In the epilogue, Danticat connects the stories by portraying hope through flight and writing.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a script which falls somewhere in the middle of the Classical Design Triangle. It presents moments of causality in a non-linear temporal arrangement. The single protagonist, Jean-Dominique Bauby, is passive due to his affliction yet struggling with both his inner conflict to resolve his life’s choices and the external conflict to regain some semblance of a normal existence. Plot points for this script were not as clearly defined as they are in a script which fully utilizes the Classical Hollywood narrative structure. Some categories of the beat sheet were difficult to realize and therefore my interpretation at some points may be purely subjective and coerced.
A “Critical Essay on ‘The Metamorphosis’.” Short Stories for Students. Ed. Jennifer Smith. Vol.
In the stage being the first stanza of the poem Child and Insect the reader meets a little boy who is excited and euphoric because he has managed to catch a grasshopper. The rhythm of the poem is very fast and lively. An evidence for that is the onomatopoeia “clockwork fizz” which describes the insect’s movements as sudden and quick, comparing its legs to the hands of a clock too. It also illustrates its desperate attempts to escape the small palm of the boy described by the opening line of the first stanza “He cannot hold his hand huge enough.” Furthermore, not only the grasshopper’s movements are swift but the boy’s motions as well, shown by the run on line “He races back, how quick he is, look”. This line further emphasizes the rhythm of the poem and the energetic mood it creates. The run on line could also be interpreted as a representation of the child’s speech which is cut and uneven because of his cheerfulness and need for a breath. Moreover, the word choices of the author particularly words such as “snatched”, “quick”, “look”, “sudden” help to reinf...