5The lives of W.E.B. Du Bois and Joy Castro have been very challenging, starting from their youth years into adulthood. W.E.B. Du Bois and Joy Castro mutually were passionate about formal education. Their passion for formal education came with adversities as well. In Joy Casto's writing pieces, "Hungry" and "On Becoming Educated," her short stories connect with the ideas of formal education and social adversities in the literature of, W.E.B. Du Bois. His short stories of, "Of the Meaning of Progress," "Of the Wings of Atalanta," and "Of the Training of Black Men," relate to Joy Castro stories as well. A quote from Benjamin Disraeli states, "There is no education like adversity." This meaning of this quote in laymen's terms is, overcoming challenges in life offers useful knowledge, to help prospers that person to become more successful; while schooling itself cannot match. This quote correlates with the lives of W.E.B. Du Bois and Joy Castro as well. They shared and contrasted with how they overcame their challenging up-bringings or who they are. Furthermore,
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Du Bois and Joy Castro, they varied on where they focused on striving for formal education. For W.E.B. Du Bois, the beginnings of his journey took place in Massachusetts. However, he traveled south and became a student at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. Residing in the south as an African-American was frowned upon from the perspective of society at the time. W.E.B. Du Bois' approach to formal education for the most of his life took place in the heavily racial segregated south, soon after the Civil War. His journeys later took place as a teacher in a school in a small black community of Alexandria, Tennessee, and then at Atlanta University. His journey took place during the 1890's-1910's, which, is known to be a time where African-American were socially oppressed. He intended to give back formal education to other Africa-American boys in the south through teaching in impoverished
Du Bois and Joy Castro, they varied on where they focused on striving for formal education. For W.E.B. Du Bois, the beginnings of his journey took place in Massachusetts. However, he traveled south and became a student at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. Residing in the south as an African-American was frowned upon from the perspective of society at the time. W.E.B. Du Bois' approach to formal education for the most of his life took place in the heavily racial segregated south, soon after the Civil War. His journeys later took place as a teacher in a school in a small black community of Alexandria, Tennessee, and then at Atlanta University. His journey took place during the 1890's-1910's, which, is known to be a time where African-American were socially oppressed. He intended to give back formal education to other Africa-American boys in the south through teaching in impoverished