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The Frog's Belly Like America Analysis

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During the movie, Shola remembers herself as a slave in the Lafayette plantation house as well as well as her love for Shango who’s a slave in the harsh sugar cane fields. Both characters were born into slavery; Shola has been raised to be more accepting of her status, while Shango is extremely rebellious. At one point in the film, while Shango is in the pillory for challenging Master James, the white overseer, Shola brings leftover food from the plantation house for Shango. Shango refuses to eat the food, and asks Shola why she is unwilling to join the rebels. Shango asks Shola "Why won’t you be more like us (Rebels)? Why won’t you eat from the frog’s belly like us, Shola? Shango goes onto explain to Shola that "the snake will eat whatever is in the belly of the frog." Shola is misguided by her Christian beliefs, but as the movie travels back in time as Shola expands her black consciousness and becomes part of the Maroon society, she comes to realize the meaning behind Shango's words. After analyzing the meaning behind Shango’s philosophy on the snake and the frog its implication in Sankofa is where by the plantation owner is symbolized as the frog and the freedom fighters, Maroons, Rebels are symbolized as snakes.

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