In the short story “Dreams” by Langston Hughes, Langston shows that if you are striving for a goal, you must hold on to it, persevere and protect it. If you give up life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly and a barren field frozen with snow. First off in the beginning of the poem it is saying that you must protect and continue to strive for your dream, if not it will eventually die. This is because in the poem it says “Hold onto dreams for if dreams die”. So what the author is trying convey is that if you have a dream, Never forget and always persist on getting to that dream.. You must hold on to it as he mentions. If not, “life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly”. This means that if you do not hold onto your dreams, your life
