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    Langston Hughes

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    Langston Hughes and The Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance was a huge cultural movement for the culture of African Americans. Embracing the various aspects of art‚ many sought to envision what linked black peoples’ relationship to their heritage and to each other. Langston Hughes was one of the many founders of such a cultural movement. Hughes was very unique when it came to his use of jazz rhythms and dialect in portraying the life of urban blacks through his poetry‚ stories‚ and plays

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    Dreams: Langston Hughes Langston Hughes was born on February 1‚ 1902 in Joplin‚ Missouri. Hughes was probably the most well-known literary force during the Harlem Renaissance. He was one of the first known black artists to stress a need for his generations to embrace the black jazz culture of the 1920s‚ as well as the cultural roots in Africa and not so distant memory of enslavement in the United States. In November 1924‚ Hughes finished his book of poetry‚ subsequently he wrote his second novel

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    poet‚ Langston Hughes displays the theme of resilience and strength amongst adversity in many of his works‚ however‚ it predominantly resonates in his poem‚ “Mother to Son”. Hughes displays this lesson through showcasing the mother’s hardships‚ and her desire for her son to acquire resilience amongst a life of struggle. The speaker is a mother‚ a woman with a young son. This mother has endured many hardships which have made her the person she currently is. When reflecting on her life mother states

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    In the poem “Dreams”‚ langston Hughes uses imagery to convey that life would be useless without dreams. First of all‚ Hughes uses metaphor in the first stanza to show how life would be meaningless without dreams. The narrator states that “Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly” (3-4). The metaphor that was used in this sentence‚ means that there is no point of the bird if it doesn’t have wings because the purpose of the is to fly. Then‚ the author compares life with a broken-winged bird that

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    Dreams by Langston Hughes is a free verse poem with an abcb rhyme scheme. In the poem‚ Hughes uses poetic devices to show dreams are as important as lives. The poem shows a theme of reflection of one’s life. To hold onto your dreams as if they were your last drop of hope. Without dreams‚ one’s life would seem empty and dull. Hughes uses a mixture of metaphors and personification throughout his poem. Hughes uses metaphors to show how useless life would be without dreams: “Life is a broken-winged

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    In the short poem “Mother to Son”‚ by Langston Hughes‚ the mother is revealed to have many unique traits about her that maker her a diligent person. The poem has many metaphors that show the mother is a hard-working‚ persistent‚ determined‚ and strong person who endures her troubles she faces in her lifetime. The mother is stated to be an insistent woman that went through many hard struggles and teaches her son to be assiduous to get through the struggles he might encounter just like how she did

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    everybody’s got their own story. In a poem entitled “Mother to Son” and a short story entitled “Thank you Ma’am “ which is both by Langston Hughes‚ it it illustrated to the readers that a person’s past can greatly influence the person’s future. The experiences in the past of both Mrs. Jones and the speaker in the poem had given to them that all-too-important insight and allowed them to share the knowledge to the young people. In the poem “Mother to Son‚” the speaker is telling the boy her story and is

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    dreams by langston hughes

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    Zapping Zombies Leo likes playing a video game where he has to zap zombies and turn them into statues before they invade a town. In the game‚ zombies hide everywhere. Leo’s goal is to clear all the zombies to make the town safe. To advance to the next level he has to zap all the zombies in the level. Each level has the same number of zombies and the same number of points is earned for each zapped zombie. As players move through the levels the zombies get harder to zap. Leo made the table below

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    Dream Deferred

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    Analysis of a Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes This poem by Langston Hughes is a very complicated. In it the speaker paints a picture of what might happen to someone’s dream if it is postponed too long. This idea is the overall theme of the poem and it is what unifies and connects each line to the poem as a whole. There are also indirect references that this is not only the dream of an individual‚ but an entire race’s struggle to achieve peace and liberation. This poem consists of a series

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    grow in life though we need to appreciate each other and world we live on. Life is not a walk in the park‚ it’s never easy;you’re always trying to get better. In Langston Hughes’s “Mother to Son’ the speaker is talking about hard life is. In her journey she says “ Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair‚” (Mother to sonLangston Hughes line 2). Within this quote she explains that life is not easy and never will be easy even when you’re happy. Furthermore‚ she continues to‚ “So‚ boy‚

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