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BACKGROUND
PIGEON ENGLISH
EXPLANATIONS
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Social injustice
Wealth versus poverty
Global perspective
Based on a heart beat
Sipho Sepamla - Black consciousness movement
Mixing English with other languages
Wants to include everyone even the uneducated
Common way to communicate
Informal
Doesn't divide us, it joins us
Slaves, Kreol, Jamaken
Everyone is the same
"terrible, terrible"
"All da peoples is make like God"
"I doesn't care"
South Africans are predgidous
Including everyone
Metaphor for racism and apartheid
All are the same so we should all be equal
"one man make anader man feel da pain he doesn't feel hisself"
Can inflict pain on someone else because you dont feel it
"when da nail of say da t'orn tree scratch little bit little bit of da skin"
When you are scratched by a thorn tree, everyone will be hurt. We are the same
"Red blood"
Same for everyone
"So for sure now you doesn't look anader man in de eye"
Dont look someone in the eeye because you are ashamed by something you have done
Addresses everyone
Doesnt matter what package you are wrapped in everyone is the same on the inside
Rhythm is created through alliteration and assonance
Everyone has something terrible in them - racist
We should unify
We were taught to hate so we can be taught to love
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Themes
Language used
Message
Structure
Skin colour is only a visual difference, underneath we are all the same.
Subversive message of empowerment.
Ubuntu : "I am because you are"
Humanity is unified as a whole - includes and embraces diversity
Simplistic language hides an important message which is understood by even the simplest person
Reflects the context
Everyone is different, yet still part of the same collective whole
No single stanza is the same
Emphasizes the burden people carry regardless of reace or background - guilt, oppression, shame
"da eye"
No connection with others because of race
Message
Stanza 2
Stanza 3
Stanza 1
Doesn't matter about colour or race - everyone carries a burden
All made in God's image
"go-go"
Sound of a heart
All the same should exist as one collective heart
Onomatopoeia
All have a heart and physical emotion
Sacrifice in nature of humans
Allusion to crusification
"da same da same"
Beating of one heart
Cant beat as one when there is segregation
Stanza 4
Biologically all the same