In past times African American people were discriminated against and segregated, making a lot of people stand up for their rights in different ways. The speech written by Martin Luther King, “I have a dream” and the poem written by Langston Hughes, “Harlem”, both of them talk about the times of the brutality over African American people. The two works are similar because they both talk about African Americans not having the right of freely expressing their dissatisfaction with oppression. However, the two works are different in that one has a message with hope and the other one is without any optimism.
These works have similarities with expressing their ideas and frustration with African American dreams. The author Hughes expresses in his …show more content…
The poem written by Hughes says, “ Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore—And then run?”. The author explains that their dream of freedom was drying up like a raisin because of all the injustices during that times. In this poem, the whole point is that the reader notice that they are tired of watching people of their race being killed by nonsense excuses and that their dream was slowly dying because nobody had enough courage to stop the officials and tell them that they had rights too. While a famous speech explains this problem with a hopeful point of view making the listener be more optimistic with the material. In the speech written by Martin Luther King, he says,” I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”. In those days people were just judged only because of their skin color. He is expressing that he dreams and he surely believes that one day his kids will not live in the same present that they were living those days. Not be judged by their appearance, or as the speech mentions for their color but for the beauty of their hearts. He still has hope that the future can change if he starts to make a difference in it. These works show an example of how a person can think the optimistic or pessimistic point of view, depends on the perspective of
These works have similarities with expressing their ideas and frustration with African American dreams. The author Hughes expresses in his …show more content…
The poem written by Hughes says, “ Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore—And then run?”. The author explains that their dream of freedom was drying up like a raisin because of all the injustices during that times. In this poem, the whole point is that the reader notice that they are tired of watching people of their race being killed by nonsense excuses and that their dream was slowly dying because nobody had enough courage to stop the officials and tell them that they had rights too. While a famous speech explains this problem with a hopeful point of view making the listener be more optimistic with the material. In the speech written by Martin Luther King, he says,” I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”. In those days people were just judged only because of their skin color. He is expressing that he dreams and he surely believes that one day his kids will not live in the same present that they were living those days. Not be judged by their appearance, or as the speech mentions for their color but for the beauty of their hearts. He still has hope that the future can change if he starts to make a difference in it. These works show an example of how a person can think the optimistic or pessimistic point of view, depends on the perspective of