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    Hughes and Harlem The land of the free and the home of the brave is a simple yet powerful motto that supposedly describes the inherent rights allotted to each American. Yet‚ the truly brave are often the ones who have the least amount of freedom. America is a young nation with a past full of prejudice‚ but more importantly a past full of bravery and triumph. Americans like Martin Luther King‚ Rosa Parks and Malcolm X‚ all fought for equality. These great Americans rose to the occasion and succeeded

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    Langston Hughes’s‚ “Early Autumn‚” is an example of something that can happen in everyday life. The conflict in this story shows how one decision can result in a time of sadness. I believe the author uses the end of fall and the beginning of winter to show just how cold and empty the relationship is between the characters. It could represent that there was nothing to say‚ in the story it seemed like she was happier to see him than he was or maybe he was in shock. “The leaves fell slowly from

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    In the poem “Scottsboro‚” Hughes talks about Christ and Gandhi because they were both important figures that stood up for what they believed in just as the Scottsboro boys did. Christ died on the cross for everybody’s sins. He had a lot of people that did not believe in him and wanted him dead. Gandhi preached about wanting peace and how he wanted the violence to end. He had a lot of people that supported him and a lot of people who didn’t. He had his life taken from him by somebody that did not

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    Explication of Langston Hughes ’ "Mother to Son" Langston Hughes once stated in his own words that his whole purpose for writing was‚ "to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America." In the poem "Mother to Son"‚ he denotes his belief on racism in America. In "Mother to Son"‚ a mother is giving advice to her son about life from her perspective and experiences. She wants her son to keep striving on what he believes and to have a more prosperous life than what she had. Langston Hughes was born

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    Harlem Renaissance Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes works showed that they are nostalgic about Africa‚ a continent they did not visit‚ but they were anxious to connect to. In Cullen’s “Heritage”‚ he sounded like a troubled man that long for to reunite to a long-lost love. His description of Africa was based on what he read or was told about Africa not from his own personal experience. Although he gave a beautiful description of Africa‚ in the first few lines‚ by ending the first part of the poem

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    styles to the American Voice. Langston Hughes contributed to the American Voice by setting the precedent for African American civil rights works and helped launch the Harlem Renaissance into full effect. Throughout the history of the Untied States there have been events which shaped this country; for example‚ the Harlem Renaissance and the short era of the counterculture are two events which helped progress the differing arts that have been created. Langston Hughes used the many experiences of his

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    you imagine what it looked like to be there with the writer. In his short story “Salvation‚” Langston Hughes uses this part of narration to describe the elderly of his church. “A great many old people came and knelt around us and prayed‚ old women with jet-black faces and braided hair‚ old men with work-gnarled hands.” Even this small description is enough to help a reader start to put themselves in Hughes’ shoes. Visualization is the beginning of understanding another

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    B” the writer‚ Langston Hughes‚ is known as an African American poet and author who joined other black artists to break literary barriers during the civil rights movement. The poem was written thirty years or so after the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance‚ but still symbolizes why the Renaissance had originated in the first place. I believe this poem reflected on Hughes’ life in general‚ but more importantly on the fight against the ignorance that created discrimination. Hughes was an individual

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    Saying Hughes represents animals as alien and opposed to the civilised human consciousness is not a satisfactory answer or complete analysis of the seventeen poems that have been studied. It is only a generalisation. It is true that most of the poems do have animals represented as opposed to this human outlook in that the animals are shown to display cannibalism‚ extreme brutality‚ no remorse‚ a total lack of maternal grief as in Ravens‚ and‚ as in The Hen‚ the repeated killing of weak hens by the

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    Langston Hughes’ poem “I‚ Too” is about how African Americans are equal to Caucasians. In the poem‚ the narrator is saying he is American although he is not white‚ and is ready to claim his rights in the United States (“I‚ Too” 100-101). As the poem progresses‚ the narrator is trying to establish his identity as an American citizen who is worthy of that title (“I‚ Too” 100-101). Hughes expresses how each time he is cast out‚ he only becomes more determined‚ until he eventually demands to be an American

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