Harlem Children's Zone

Meaning of Dreams Langston Hughes’s short poem is on of his famous works it is likely the most common poem taught in American school. Hughes wrote “Harlem” in 1951, and it address one of his most common themes – the Limitation of the American Dream for African Americans. “Harlem” makes you wonder what happens to a deferred dream, wondering if it dries up like a raisin in the sun, or if it oozes like a wound and then runs. It might smell like a rotten meat or develop a sugary crust. It might…

James Byron Dean was a famous man, and I am telling you how his life lead up to him being famous. He might not of had the best family to grow up in, but it is interesting to learn about him. You have no clue how awesome it is to learn about someone who past away before you were born. I hope you enjoy this essay. I hope you enjoy it as much a I did. James Dean was born on February 8, 1931, in Marion, Indiana, to Winton Dean and Mildred Wilson. James’s Dad was a farmer, but quit to become a…

Though many a critic of texts finds debates pertinent towards authors’ meanings to be up for debate on a high level, one cannot ignore the pounding text agendas of Toni Morrison. Morrison touches on every means by which she is desirous for those works of hers to receive reading, besides every message of hers meant to be conveyed towards readers, using respect achieved from authoring and positing to reinforce every intention of hers. By way of every work of hers, both the fictional and the…

In Langston Hughes’s poem titled “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)”, he asks an interesting question, “What happens to a dream deferred?” In Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry uses the backdrop of discrimination on an African American family to examine the effect of dreams on people. Hansberry utilizes symbols such as Mama’s withering plant to represent how the family’s dreams are struggling to live while the members have conflicting ideas of the future. She also employs the life insurance money as…

Personally I think Langston Hughes gives a perfect example of how higher whites view blacks academically in his poem, “Theme for English B”. He has a somewhat defensive attitude in his poem towards the instructor about how black can enjoy and like the same things as a common white person may enjoy. Langston uses a defensive tone throughout the poem about his equality to the common white american. He shows this his love of Bessie and how just because of his race doesn’t it mean it prohibits…

Caleb Williams Mr. Brady Bell 4 English 10 16 May 2015 Who was Langston Hughes? Hughes' grandfather, Charles H. Langston, settled down in Kansas in 1862. Charles and Mary were free blacks who were both educated at Oberlin College in Ohio. They met there and married in the year of 1869. The couple later returned to Kansas and bought a farm just northwest of Lawrence near Lakeview. Charles Langston worked as a farmer, a teacher, an editor of The Historic Times, an African American…

Most of us could look back and reminisce about our lives when we were twelve years old. Twelve, being an age where responsibilities and making difficult decisions are ultimately obsolete for many of us. This was not the case for Langston Hughes. In Langston Hughes’s short story personal narrative “Salvation”, he vividly describes the struggles he faced when being saved one evening in church. A young man who lost his faith after trying to appease adult perceptions of faith with his young mind.…

The Black Arts Movement left a lasting impression not only on African-American culture, but on all American cultures. “…criticized as misogynist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, and racially exclusive, the Black Arts movement is also credited with inciting a new generation of poets, writers, and artists” (A Brief Guide to the Black Arts Movement). The Black Arts movement is dated from approximately 1960 to 1970, coinciding with the Civil Rights Movement, Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam, and the…

Cullen and Hughes were conceived around the same time of each other, and subsequently composed these lyrics around the same time (1925). This is noteworthy because it mirrors the time in which racial disparity was unmistakable. Both artists were battling with their feelings of being African American minorities in a general public of white prevalence. Their lyrics mirror the bad form of prejudice, which is particularly uncovered in Langston Hughes' poem "I, too". Most poems are loaded with…

and disappointment to the rest of the country was through poetry. Langston Hughes and Claude McKay were two famous Harlem Renaissance poets. Both expressing equality and other similar qualities. “Harlem” by Langston Hughes and “If We Must Die” by Claude McKay both have their unique and differences on the accounts of death by using metaphors, similes, and imagery. In the poem, “Harlem” Hughes ponders what happens to a deferred dream. He ponders if it dries up like a raisin in the sun, or if it…