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Analysis for i too by langston hughes
Analysis of the Langston Hughes poem
Analysis of the Langston Hughes poem
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In the short story “Thank You, M’am” by Langston Hughes, Mrs. Jones kindness to Roger changed him. Her kindness change him because even though he did something wrong Mrs. Jones still gave him things and this is why Roger has changed. Mrs. Jones could have brought him to the police station but she did not in the text it says” Go to that sink and wash your face,” (358) and she even tells him to let the water run so it is not cold. This just show the kindness that she is showing to this kid. Mrs. Jone’s says In the text “I have done things, too, which I would not tell you, son--- neither tell god, if he did not already know.” This show that she was done something “wrong” and maybe this is the reason why she takes him into her house and maybe
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement during the 1920s and 1930s, in which African-American art, music and literature flourished. It was significant in many ways, one, because of its success in destroying racist stereotypes and two, to help African-Americans convey their hard lives and the prejudice they experienced. In this era, two distinguished poets are Langston Hughes, who wrote the poem “A Dream Deferred” and Georgia Douglas Johnson who wrote “My Little Dreams”. These two poems address the delayment of justice, but explore it differently, through their dissimilar uses of imagery, tone and diction.
The poem “Likewise” by Langston Hughes is about Jews living and selling products in Harlem. But looking deeper into the writing reveals references to the creeping increase of antisemitism in the 1930’s and 1940’s.
The magistrate that sits in your heart judges you.” This is where Elizabeth suspects that John has committed adultery, but knows how good of man he is and tries to look over it. “Adultery, John.” This is where John tells her and she makes it sound like it is news to her even though she has known for awhile. She is trying to have John have a “good” name and not be a name that everyone discards. “No, sir.” Here she is protecting his name but she doesn’t know that John has just came out and said that he committed lechery. She thought that she was saving him but she was actually making it worse for him.“I mean to crush him utterly if he has shown his face.” Here he is talking about if he ever encountered the Devil that he would literally kick his ass.
Have you ever heard the expression money isn’t everything? Well it’s true and in Langston Hughes short story, “Why, You reckon,” Hughes reveals his theme of how people aren’t always as happy as they seem when they have lots of money.
Short stories are temporary portals to another world; there is a plethora of knowledge to learn from the scenario, and lies on top of that knowledge are simple morals. Langston Hughes writes in “Thank You Ma’m” the timeline of a single night in a slum neighborhood of an anonymous city. This “timeline” tells of the unfolding generosities that begin when a teenage boy fails an attempted robbery of Mrs. Jones. An annoyed bachelor on a British train listens to three children their aunt converse rather obnoxiously in Saki’s tale, “The Storyteller”. After a failed story attempt, the bachelor tries his hand at storytelling and gives a wonderfully satisfying, inappropriate story. These stories are laden with humor, but have, like all other stories, an underlying theme. Both themes of these stories are “implied,” and provide an excellent stage to compare and contrast a story on.
The mother understands her husbands trust and she will not read his diaries. “... She saw where he had hidden the current volume, was tempted to open it and see what it was he didn’t want her to know, and then thought better of it and replaced the papers, exactly as they were before” (p. 44). The mother does not need to read the diaries to know what her husband is like. She knows that what her husband thinks is secret and unkind because she also has unkind thoughts.
The main character tells us that she has a nice family that consists of her husband John and a little baby, but John does unusual things that someone would not expect in a normal marriage. She says, “John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.” (Gilman 647). Men back then did not treat or think highly of women due to men being more superior than them. John also seems to complain
Instead, her mother found an excuse for the situation, and Jeanette found that overlooking the situation would bring her more peace than thinking about the sexual abuse. However, her mother was not the only one to blame. One day when the Walls’s family was attending church Rex created such a big embarrassment to the family. Rex stood up hollering and fidgeting till the extent nearly the entire church simply paid attention to him. This caused a great embarrassment to the family especially Jeanette. So embarrassed Mary told Jeanette“Don’t worry God understands, “ he knows that your father is a cross we must bear”(Page 105). Jeanette acknowledges at that very moment that not only was her father relentless,but blindsided by whatever he truly believes in. furthermore causing their family to be embarrassed without any care in the world. This left Jeanette to overlook this situation knowing that she needed to find peace for
A situation can be interpreted into several different meanings when observed through the world of poetry. A poet can make a person think of several different meanings to a poem when he or she is reading it. Langston Hughes wrote a poem titled "I, Too." In this poem he reveals the Negro heritage and the pride that he has in his heritage and in who he is. Also, Hughes uses very simple terms that allow juvenile interpretations and reading.
The narrator is trying to get better from her illness but her husband “He laughs at me so about this wallpaper” (515). He puts her down and her insecurities do not make it any better. She is treated like a child. John says to his wife “What is it little girl” (518)? Since he is taking care of her she must obey him “There comes John, and I must put this away, he hates to have me write a word”. The narrator thinks John is the reason why she cannot get better because he wants her to stay in a room instead of communicating with the world and working outside the house.
The narrator is portrayed, from the beginning of the story, as a women so numbed to societies diminished view of her that she, in fact, believes it herself. She notes that her husband, John, “laughs at [her]”, but this does not seem to bother the narrator and she even justifies it saying that “one [is to] expect that in marriage”. It is at this point in the story that it becomes clear to the readers that the marriage between the narrator and John is not one of equals, but one of a dominant and a submissive, a doctor and a patient, a caretaker and a “sick” woman. This patronizing attitude that John displays with his “blessed little goose” was not uncommon in the time this story was written, which lends an explanation as to why the narrator doesn't seem entirely upset with her treatment. The narrator has been conditioned throughout her life to act a certain way, the way that society wants her to act. While both her husband and her brother have come to “same diagnosis” of the narrator, she “personally disagree[s] with their ideas” but doesn’t feel she has a right to voice her own opinion in her treatment. Instead she inwardly suppresses her true emotions and maintains the facade that she believes she is meant to display, something she has probably been doing her whole life. Trapped in her husband’s diagnosis, the narrator is confined to
The poem “Negro” was written by Langston Hughes in 1958 where it was a time of African American development and the birth of the Civil Rights Movement. Langston Hughes, as a first person narrator tells a story of what he has been through as a Negro, and the life he is proud to have had. He expresses his emotional experiences and makes the reader think about what exactly it was like to live his life during this time. By using specific words, this allows the reader to envision the different situations he has been put through. Starting off the poem with the statement “I am a Negro:” lets people know who he is, Hughes continues by saying, “ Black as the night is black, /Black like the depths of my Africa.” He identifies Africa as being his and is proud to be as dark as night, and as black as the depths of the heart of his country. Being proud of him self, heritage and culture is clearly shown in this first stanza.
When Sula said no, the boy turned around and fell down the steps. He couldn 't get up right away and Sula went to help him. His mother, just then tripping home, saw Sula bending over her son 's pained face. She flew into a fit of concerned, if drunken, motherhood, and dragged Teapot home. She told everybody that Sula had pushed him, and talked so strongly about it she was forced to abide by the advice of her friends and take him to the county hospital. (Morrison, check page#)
The founding fathers constructed the Constitution with the notion that “all men were created equal.” However, many minorities still struggle for the same rights and opportunities as others. “Mother to Son” and “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” are poems written by Langston Hughes that use symbolism to exemplify the struggles of African Americans as they attempt to persevere through adversity. Hughes utilizes the stairs in “Mother to Son” and the rivers in “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” as his main modes of symbolism.
Booker T. Washington was a young black male born into the shackles of Southern slavery. With the Union victory in the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, Washington’s family and blacks in the United States found hope in a new opportunity, freedom. Washington saw this freedom as an opportunity to pursue a practical education. Through perseverance and good fortunes, Washington was able to attain that education at Hampton National Institute. At Hampton, his experiences and beliefs in industrial education contributed to his successful foundation at the Tuskegee Institute. The institute went on to become the beacon of light for African American education in the South. Booker T. Washington was an influential voice in the African American community following the Civil War. In his autobiography, Up from Slavery, Washington outlines his personal accounts of his life, achievements, and struggles. In the autobiography, Washington fails to address the struggle of blacks during Reconstruction to escape the southern stigma of African Americans only being useful for labor. However, Washington argues that blacks should attain an industrial education that enables them to find employment through meeting the economic needs of the South, obtaining moral character and intelligence, and embracing practical labor. His arguments are supported through his personal accounts as a student at Hampton Institute and as an administrator at the Tuskegee Institute. Washington’s autobiography is a great source of insight into the black education debate following Reconstruction.