Frieda Hughes

Langston Hughes endured many hardships, even during infancy. His parents divorced and his dad moved all the way to Mexico. When he was thirteen years old, he went to go live with his grandmother in Lincoln, Illinois. It was then he decided to put the rest of his love and passion into his poetry and became one of the most famous and well-known poets of all time. Hughes was born on the first of February in 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. [Although] he was born in Joplin, he mostly grew up in Lawrence…

Maya Angelou and Alice Walker are both well-known African American authors. They both were awarded for having some of the best non-fictional and fictional texts on what it is like to be black in the United States. Both Angelou and Walker were inspirational civil rights activists but what made them different was their styles in writing, ways of expressing topics or situations, and each very unique. Maya Angelou was a strong writer, actor, and a great poet. In fact she was the writer, director,…

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Colombia’s Most Influential Political Figure Children growing up in an environment where story time and imagination are key roles plays a major part in their childhood up until their adulthood. Marquez’s childhood was impacted by his grandfather’s stories about war and his grandmother and aunt’s tales of gypsies and myths. Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s unique style of writing, Magical Realism, is a mix of imagination and reality that was molded by his unconventional…

Poems by Blacks Langston Hughes is a poet with great talents. He wrote pieces that all had great meanings. One particular poem I, Too, was different from the others. Even though the poet was black, and he referenced his character to be a “darker brother”; he is trying to reach out to everyone who ever felt different from the group. Langston wanted to touch all who felt like a black sheep in a herd of white sheep, the people who are different from the others; no matter if you were tall, dark,…

Almost everyone has heard someone say the phrase “Never judge a book by its cover.” But, more often than not, the appearance of something is important. In The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, the narrator comes across two paths and describes them. Then, they make their decision of which path to take based on the appearances. On the other hand, in Thank You Ma’am, the narrator describes a lady that helps a boy who tried to steal her purse. In this story, she decided to help him based on his dirty…

the years went by I began to have interest for them both. Mr. Harris always had us read and recite a famous poem, then after annotate it. We read poems from many different cultures and poets. My favorite poem was by Langston Hughes Harlem! The figurative of writing Langston Hughes used in his writing for that specific poem reminded me of my writing. A simile is a figurative of language that demonstrate a comparison between two things using like or as. I use similes in my writing to have a better…

Michael Crichton overcame his insecurities and lack of confidence by writing. Michael Crichton was born on October 23, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. Michael Crichton lived in Fort Morgan, Colorado with his younger sister and mother during World War II. This was the same place where his parents were fostered. His family soon moved to Roslyn, New York after his father obtained an occupation as a newspaper editor. His father’s job was the main reason he gained interest in writing. As a child,…

A remarkable book chronicling an understudied period in Cuban history, “Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920-1940”, by Robin D. Moore is an intriguing study of Cuban popular music in the twentieth century. Moore dissects and explains how the music which is often associated with Cuba was considered at one time riffraff and lewd because of its African influence, origins and associations compared to the more sophisticated music of Europeans. Between 1920…

Willa Cather moved to Nebraska in 1883, when she was only 9 years old. A year and a half later she moved to the small prairie city of Red Cloud. While there she had an attic room that she loved to read in. At sixteen she went to college. After attending the University of Nebraska she moved to Pittsburg. She became a big woman in American journalism, but quit when she started writing her American masterpieces. She wrote three masterpieces in five years, one being My Antonia. She was received the…

believed in justice and equality for all men and was inspired by many activists such as Mahatma Gandhi to promote peaceful protests. Langston Hughes was a writer and poet in the Harlem renaissance. His writings expressed what it was like to be a black person living in that time. “A Stride Towards Freedom” by Martin Luther King uses imagery and “I Too” by Langston Hughes uses…