We Real Cool Langston Hughes Analysis

Over time everything changes. Some people may believe that change is a bad thing but in some cases change can be an amazing thing. A change can be something small like a minor change in your daily routine or a huge change can be an impact may impact the world. America has changed a lot throughout the years. In the past African American people weren’t treated with the same respect they are treated now. People used to have very negative views about colored people, therefore the discrimination towards African American began. In the poems “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks and “Harlem” by Langston Hughes the two authors wrote about the racism that people of color had to experience. These two poems were written by authors that were part of the
They weren’t treated like a human being, they were treated like an object; a thing without any value. They were looked down on. The past was a cruel world for every African American now the world is a lot better. Now every person is encouraged to pursue your wildest dream no matter what race you’re a part of. This wasn’t the case in the past for Africans Americans. The poem titled “Harmed” by Langston Hughes he talks about the dreams of black people. They were allowed to limit all of their dreams. They weren’t allowed to have individual drams or goals in their own life’s because they all shared the same dream, the hope for equality. Hughes starts the poem by questioning what happens to a “deferred dream?” (1) “Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” (2-3) the author compares a dream that has been put on hold to a dried-up raisin because the raisin symbolizes what happens when you put something on pause it changes and you cannot change it back to the way it used to be in other words time is precious. The author continues his poem by helping us see these people’s dreams vanishing away by engaging our senses into the images he describes. “Does it stink like rotten meat?” (6) when food is left out for a long amount of time it will began to smell bad and attract flies and maggots. The author draws a pretty nasty picture of what African Americans had to deal with when it came to dreaming “big” they were limited in
This poem was written about seven young men the author had seen near a pool area during school hours. The stereotypes Brooks choose to write about were all bad ones, a suggestion of failure and misguidance. The author talks about how they choose poor choices in life and she also makes a prediction of the consequences that will occur to these young men. “We Real Cool.” “We Left School.” “We Lurk Late.” (1-3) The author starts this poem by showing the reader that the characters in the poem are really careless and irresponsible. The reader gets an immediate feeling of recklessness. The author continues to write “We Sing sin.” We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon” (5-8) the poem ends with the prediction of what will happen to these young men. She says they will die soon because she believes since they are in bad steps they will lead a life to an early death. Since African Americans didn’t have many privileges they rather ditch school then go to a place where they were segregated from the rest of the