Tupac Shakur's The Rose That Grew From Concrete

The message of the poem, “The Rose that Grew from Concrete”, by Tupac Shakur, is to relate to the people in bad environments, who have trouble successeeding in life. The rose symbolizes that one person who accomplished their dreams and thrived. The usual environment of where a rose grows is in a sunny place where the rose can get its nutrients in order to grow, but tis rose grew from concrete, breaking nature’s law. Nature’s law is only people from a good environment can succeed. The concrete was not only the rose’s environment, but its obsticales too. In the lines three and four it says, “Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air.” Therefore, the rose never gave up on striving for glory, and because of its