“Theme for English B” , written by Langston Hughes speaks of how he is the only colored student in his class. He writes about how things are different for him compared to everyone else, since he is colored. He begins to wonder if his writing will be different because of the color of his skin. In his poem he says “So will my page be colored that I write? Being me, it will not be white.
Since he doesn’t talk about or show any coming of age this is not a bildungsroman. The focus of the poem was not how he ages but how he is different from others. An example of him talking about his ethnicity in his poem is, “I guess being colored doesn’t make me not like the same things other folks like who are other races.”. This quote is saying that even
Since he doesn’t talk about or show any coming of age this is not a bildungsroman. The focus of the poem was not how he ages but how he is different from others. An example of him talking about his ethnicity in his poem is, “I guess being colored doesn’t make me not like the same things other folks like who are other races.”. This quote is saying that even