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    Cross by Langston Hughes

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    Poem Cross by Langston Hughes‚ he shows how mixed races encounter hardships. One major hardship that mixed races encounter is identity problems. Langston demonstrates how not embracing a specific ethnicity causes him to show spitefulness toward his “white old man” and his Caucasian heritage. Langston also shows how identifying with his “Black old mother” and his African American heritage can cause bitterness because he did not know his true identity. At the end of Cross Langston struggles with

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    Langston Hughes Poems

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    Emily Wang  Hill  English 11H Period 4  27 January 2015  Poems by Langston Hughes  I Dream a World  1. Main idea of the poem?  The main intentions of the poem are presenting a world where blacks are equal to whites.  Langston Hughes wants a world that is fair‚ without the discriminations or segregations by  society’s norms.   2. Tone?   The tone of the poem is filled with hope but also skepticism. The poem rhymes and is very  easy to read. The rhymes give off a very light feel throughout the lines

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    This is a poem by Langston Hughes. James Mercer Langston Hughes was born in February 1‚1902 by parents of mixed race; he attended Columbia University but was later kicked out because of racial prejudice. He left that his passion was not in school but in the neighborhood. He did random jobs until he became a “new negro poet”‚ Hughes was important in the Harlem Renaissance for his fight for African American equality. White supremacy was spreading widely in the country; people of mixed race were highly

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    Interpreting Langston Hughes Langston Hughes’ haunting descriptions of the African people’s struggle for freedom paints a lasting image in one’s mind of the price paid for a single strand of freedom and what is meant to this oppressed ethnicity. From the dark whispers of Silhouette to the stern rising words of Democracy‚ Hughes releases his soul in a cry to awaken the African spirit and inspire thought in the reader. Through his selective choice of words Hughes leaves many interpretations open to

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    Mulatto By Langston Hughes

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    Langston Hughes’ parents were both mostly black. However‚ it was discovered that his grandfather was part Cherokee and French. Hughes’ father was devastated by this new found discovery and was ashamed of who he was. Langston‚ on the other hand‚ embraced his new found race and culture. Hughes’ experience with dealing with his father and how he never fit in with a certain race can be seen in the poem “Mulatto.” Struggling with not fitting it can be seen when Hughes writes‚ “To little

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    Bop - Langston Hughes

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    Bop Neva Ends What is Bop? In “Bop” by Langston Hughes‚ the narrator describes Bop as Be-Bop‚ the opposite of Re-Bop. The general idea of Be-Bop is that it is current‚ makes sense‚ what the colored boys play and that it is authentic. This leads to Re-Bop having the definition of being white boys play‚ an imitation‚ and complete nonsense. In “Bop”‚ a character by the name of Simple is stating his own theory on the origin of Be-Bop music to an unnamed narrator. Simple uses his somewhat ethnocentric

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    Island By Langston Hughes

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    “Island” poem wrote by Langston HughesLangston Hughes is very popular writer who know for an identifiable rhythm or beat. His poems always make reader aspiration in many ways‚ example his dreams makes readers to think about hidden dreams and lost dreams. “Balloon of the Mind” by W. B. Yeats who is also a popular writer too who received the nobel prize for literature in 1923. However‚ both poems have way different topics where there is no related to each other but the idea of the themes are the

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    Langston Hughes Landlord

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    Landlord by Langston Hughes‚ the reader is on a journey through the eyes of a black man who is mistreated by his landlord because of his ethnicity. In the poem the tenant goes to the landlord and expresses their worries about their apartment falling apart instead of the landlord helping them he just raises the tenant’s rents. When the tenant decides to try to stick up for himself against the landlord he is the one that is penalized‚ prosecuted‚ and thrown in jail for six months. Hughes wrote this

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    Reaction to "Salvation" "Salvation" is the story of a child named Langston misunderstanding that Jesus is not a physical person. The Bible is complicated and difficult to preach. Preachers spend years to get a perfect understanding of the scripter. It would be understandable for a 12-year-old to not understand. In most churches people expect you to get saved. This can be demonstrated the aunt in paragraph nine and ten as she started to sob. Instead of getting upset the aunt should have explained

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    Aurelian M. Gogean What you give up to fit in? Many people sacrifice their beliefs and values to be accepted in society and to win the societies approval. George Orwell in “Shooting an elephant” and Langston Hughes in “Salvation” deal with the issue of “fitting in” in very different ways. George Orwell describes to us in “Shooting an elephant” the struggle that his character faces when to win the mobs approval and respect when he shoots down an innocent animal and sacrifices what he believes

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