Let America Be America Again By Langston Hughes

America has always been regarded as the land of the free and the place where if you work hard, you will reach success. However, Langston Hughes disagrees with this idea in his passage, “Let America be America Again”. Hughes suggests that America was never “America” in the first place, and without unity, America will not be the place everyone has worked so hard to build to be what it is today.
In “Let America be America Again”, Hughes develops a theme of commonality and unity being the factors that affects the objective of America being the land of the free. He begins the passage by pleading to let America go back to being how it was in the past. He wishes for America to be “the dream the dreamers dreamed— Let it be that great strong land of