The main questions being posed by Hughes in “Theme for English B” seem simple‚ who are we and how is it that we know who we are? Such questions‚ he suggests‚ must be simple because an instructor in a basic English class (English B) uses them as the basis for an assignment: “Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you.” The instructor claims that if the students let it come out of them‚ it would be true. But the student is not sure it’s that easy. Then he begins to list all
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home. Imagine if for the rest of our lives we could be fenced in from everything around us. Imagine taking down a fence and wondering why it was there in the first place. In the short story “Mending Wall” written by Robert Frost the narrator tells a story about how every year two neighbors meet again to mend a wall back together that separates their property. The narrator does not understand what the need for the fence is‚ one has an apple tree‚ and the other has a pine tree. Neither of them have animals
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bound to mental and social isolation. Despite the societal hindrances‚ they went on their own crusade to escape societal seclusion. This ideology gave birth to Langston Hughes’ poem ‘’Theme for English B‚’’ the morals the McBride family lived by‚ and ultimately the Harlem Renaissance itself. In ‘’Theme for English B‚’’ the speaker feels a definite sense of seclusion and loneliness‚ which is implied both within and outside the classroom. He mentions ‘’I am the only colored student in my class‚’’ which
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As I read the poem Theme for English B‚ I couldn’t help but notice this was a personal narrative about a young black man life‚ where he was born‚ where he attended school. He was born in Winston Salem‚ North Carolina during the time of the Jim Crew era when there were only few blacks’ men who were educated. He started his education in Winston Salem North Carolina and some in Durham North Carolina. Later moved on to New York City where he attended college where there were only a few blacks who
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what women should be. In my opinion‚ the story theme suggests that women should be domestic and their actions are as well defined. The theme of “girl” reinforces the opinion that the women role in life is to be domesticated and let to clean clothes every day. The author intends to urge the society to let women make their own choices despite absurd beliefs from older women that women need to act in certain ways to be validated by men. “Mending Wall” The author intends to explore the way people emotionally
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Texts‚ whether it may in the form of a novel or in a long film‚ revolve around the aim of expressing an important theme or motif. Trash an award-winning novel by Andy Mulligan and Wall-E‚ a film directed by Andrew Stanton both explore important themes such as over reliance on technology and social sustainability. The themes explored play a major role in the plot and storyline. Over the last several years‚ technology has rapidly evolved. We now have supercomputers in a device no bigger than our hand
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one‚ it attains the desired objective more rapidly and efficiently. The ultimate goal can only be reached after differences have been overcome‚ and cooperation has occurred. All of these acts are clearly identified in the poem "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost. He uses the wall as an extended metaphor to reveal the narrator’s thoughts about overcoming differences‚ cooperation‚ and unity. Before the members of any group can merge together‚ they must overcome the differences among them. Frost makes this
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Sufian Ali March 3‚2014 English 102 Professor Gonzalez Langston Hughes was a black American poet during the Harlem Renaissance‚ which may be the reason why most of work consisted of feelings of the black Americans and the struggles of them during the Harlem Renaissance. Langston Hughes was one of the first poets to exploit the jazz form of poetry‚ which was relatively new at the time. Langston Hughes wrote Theme for English B in his classroom. The main theme of the poem is racial prejudice
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----------------------- ‘Of all the emotions that drive us‚ fear is the strongest.’ ‘Vanity drives us‚ and can all too easily destroy us.’ wrongdoing mockery and humour risk and chance the search for happiness ‘Irony exposes the gap between the way things appear and the way they are.’ ‘The pleasures of pursuit are greater than the thrill of conquest.’ ‘It is the processes of argument and persuasion which most strongly engage us.’ the power and effects of love the power
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that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go‚ if you really want to go.” A bildungsroman is a coming of age novel. “Theme for English B‚” is an example of a bildungsroman. The narrator grows more and more mature after the loss. A bildungsroman needs to have many factors in making a narrator/protagonist/character mature. In “Themes for English B‚” Langston Hughes was told to write a poem that explores in three stanzas the development and maturity a youthful narrator into an adult
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