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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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    Paper 1 DRAFT Jennifer Gustafson 7/16/14 Langston Hughes was an American social activist‚ novelist‚ playwright‚ columnist and is recognized as one of the most significant poets of his time. Hughes was the first truly successful African American poet and his writing was extremely influential for the African American community during the Harlem Renaissance. He felt a commitment to speak out against black oppression and recognized that‚ at that time‚ the United States was a place to be deeply

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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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    Langston Hughes Salvation

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    Salvation was written by Langston Hughes. Describe the story of Hughes‚ who lost his faith. When he was going on thirteen at that time‚ he was accompanied by his auntie reed in the church revival. He was there to see Jesus Christ at the revival because old people have told him that he would see Jesus Christ. Hughes and Westley are the only two boys that left on the mourner’s bench. Westley‚ disappointed and lied was saved. Westley left Hughes alone on the bench. Hughes suffered a range of emotions

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    Langston Hughes poem‚ “Dreams Deferred‚” not only allows me to reminisce on the simplicity of my youth‚ but causes a sort of apprehensiveness that seems to cloaks my thoughts in a darkness that is inescapable. Hughes’ has always played an interesting part in my life considering that my father was always fond of his writing. However‚ this poem in particular seems to be perpetually pulsating through my mind even in times when ecstasy should flow through my veins and dopamine should control the corners

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    hide one’s true self‚ as seen in Langston Hughes’ “Salvation.” Based on a true experience‚ Hughes exposes how he lost faith in religion as he witnessed his church’s “big revival.” The motif in this piece portrays how children conform to the societal whims rather than expressing their personal beliefs. During the revival‚ the children of the congregation‚ such as Hughes‚ were pressured into going to the church’s stage to become saved. Throughout the piece‚ Hughes constantly claims he is “waiting for

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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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    would just ask each other “What are you?” what you would respond was whatever you wanted to be in that person’s eyes. When I would be

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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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    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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