'Dreams Deferred' By Langston Hughes

Dreaming in color can bring us together as a harmonic world. Every culture is different, but in some way they all have similarities. Every culture has different traditions, and each religion has different beliefs and celebrations. Cultures are full of unique ideas. People may think that being different is unacceptable, but really it's exceptional to be in a unique and different culture. When everyone dreams in color, the world becomes peaceful and beautiful. Even though our cultures are different they are also full of love and color. If everyone believed this, the world will have a culture that is living the dream.

I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr was a speech given on August 28, 1963. The speech took place on Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. where thousands of blacks and whites joined together to listen. Martin Luther King, Jr stated his dreams of what America should be like, equal for all colored people, including blacks. African Americans should have civil rights equal to that of white men. The system is unfair, but African Americans want to believe that it is not. Even though many civil rights acts have been passed in order to give African American citizens the equal right to white citizens, the system is still corrupt. America must act now to demolish racial injustice. African Americans will not rest until their efforts have changed segregation. In order to achieve this unification and equality for all of American citizens, the people should not degenerate their protests into physical violence. Instead of acting out of discipline the people should act out dignity. Black and whites should be able to join hands to together and live peacefully among one another. Colored people will be able to get along non-colored people as friends and families. Every citizen, blacks and whites, will be able to go to school together, use the same bathroom together, sit together, and live together. Everything will be peaceful for every citizen of America.

How do you put all your greatness in one essay? The answer is you start with your foundation. My foundation comes from my mother and my faith. A foundation is the greatest when it comes to building because a structure that does not have a great foundation will fall. Threw my seventeen years of living I have learned and grown because of my mother. Many times in my life I felt like giving up on different things but my mother would come along and encourage me to never give up never give in. I always thought of “Mother to Son” poem by Langston Hughes when he writes “Don’t you set down on the steps ’Cause you finds it’s kinder hard. Don’t you fall now—For I’se still goin’, honey, I’se still climbin’, And life for me ain’t been no crystal

Hello and welcome to Radio 7’s first series of “Strange Fruit” where we analyse and evaluate how a poet presents their values, attitudes and perspectives through their poem. I’m your host PERSON 1 and I’m pleased to be here with the wonderful PERSON 2, a poetry critic and history university lecturer, who will be talking about the poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes.

Hughes’s analysis of the story is mostly providing a psychological interpretation of “The Demon Lover”. He tells how the story is a dramatization of a psychological delusion of paranoia during war. Hughes tells that Kathleen is an indirect casualty of war after having her first mental collapse, when she lost her fiance to World War I. He discusses that for Mrs.Drover, psychologically damaged and inclined to a sense of loss, returning to her home triggers her hysteria. Hughes tells how when Kathleen receives the letter in her home, she begins to hallucinate. He explains that the climax of the story is when Mrs. Drover thinks her demon lover is stealing her away in a taxi. At this point in the story, Kathleen crosses into madness. Hughes concludes

The definition of power to me is when someone has a large influence and or authority over his or her peers. The power that a person possess over another person; I feel, is earned. In this week’s reading we have read several materials related to power. The one that I would like to discuss is Social Power. Social power definition is pretty much as my definition, which I have stated above. An element of social power is freedom. Freedom is intimately related to social power, and what better example of freedom and social power is from; “I Have a Dream,” by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. This speech talks a lot about the dream of freedom for all mankind. His words had the power to bring about political, social, or economic

Speeches come in all shapes and sizes, some good, some bad, some motivational and some inspirational. The one thing I can tell you there is always a few that will linger and stick around in your head. These speeches go through history as being remembered and studied for decades. A few that come to mind happen to be “I have a dream” by Martin Luther King, “Never give up…Don’t ever give up,” by Jimmy Valvano and “You’ve got to find what you love,” by Steve Jobs. Each and every one of these speeches was written by men who were challenged to make difficult decisions in their lives which would inadvertently affect their future in one way or another.

In a story called Thank You M’am, by Langston Hughes, a boy named Roger tries to steal from a woman named Mrs. Jones. Instead of calling the authorities, Mrs. Jones Brings Roger home and begins to care for him and teach him right from wrong. At the end of the story, Mrs. Jones even gave Roger $10 to buy the blue suede shoes he wanted. From this, we can reason that the reason Mrs. Jones took Roger to her house and cared for him is because Mrs. Jones sees something in Roger that she saw in her past self.

In the short story, “Thank You, M’am” by Langston Hughes, the main character is a woman that most people would strive to be more like. Mrs. Jones is a strong, dignified, respectable, confident, woman that will hold her own in any situation. Out of all of Mrs. Jones’s character traits, her most important ones, are that she is kind and generous. These traits are consistently displayed through her actions. At the beginning of the story, Mrs. Jones was walking home from work around eleven pm, when she felt a huge pull across her shoulder. “Stop!” she screamed at the young boy, Roger, that tried to steal her purse. Roger was a weak and scrawny boy, and his face was dirty. Instead of calling the police, the kind lady decided to teach

The poem Life is Fine by Langston Hughes, is a rhyming couplet which is trying to show a man struggling with life. The message of the poem is that life can be hard, but you shouldn't give up. Langston Hughes uses repetition in the poem to express how he feels in the poem. For example he uses repetition with the words "hollered", "cried" "die" and "life is fine". Hughes also uses verbal irony to say stuff he doesn't really mean.

“Humor is laughing at what you haven 't got when you ought to have it” - Langston Hughes. This quote finds relevance in Langston Hughes 1934 novel “the Ways of White Folks”, as he adds a numerous amount of blunt and hidden jokes within the novel. These jokes are meant to laugh at the inequality between white people and black people within America. Hughes mocking of the inability of the American population to coexist is exemplified through the theme of the novel that the emotional disparity between the two races in on complete opposite ends of the spectrum, the whites egotistic values enhance their emotional presence causing them to act with no thought, while the blacks undermined lifestyle forces them to harness their emotions and resist the actions they want to take. To engage the reader further into the book and ultimately the problem Hughes uses several literary techniques and strategies to connect to the emotions of the reader with the characters within the short stories.

Poetry Analysis of “Dream Deferred” Jazz poet Langston Hughes adopts figurative language to convey his message to readers who are unsure about pursuing their dreams. In “Dream Deferred”, Langston Hughes depicts the danger of postponed dreams from the African American community in the 1920s Harlem Renaissance where dreams were left behind due to fear of discrimination. Hughes implements stylistic devices in his poem to develop the theme that deferred dreams may lead to negative outcomes. Hughes applies symbolism and similes to his poem to emphasize the terrible result of delayed dreams. For instance, Hughes questions if “[Dreams] dry up like a raisin in the sun” (2-3).

The human mind is capable of remembering virtually anybody, however, remembering how a person made you feel will last forever. In the short story “Early Autumn,” by Langston Hughes describes most of his characters by using adverbs which add something deeper to their personality. The first character seems to be like any other New Yorker walking the cities minding his own business with a frown that comes with living in a busy place. I think Bill seems to fit the picture of what a person might think of is visiting New York, might be, unhappy lawyers and business people waiting for something to happen. However, what sets Bill from apart from perhaps the rest he has a background. That he seemed like any other another young man that falls in love,

This poem, “Life is fine”, was written by Langston Hughes, who is an American poet and he is known as a significant poet of the Harlem Renaissance. This poem is considered Hughes’s most successful piece of work as it concentrates on the hardships of all humanity. In this poem, the speaker goes to the river and sits down by the bank to think. He jumps into the river because he can’t concentrate. He comes to the surface and cries out twice.

Dreams, whether completely bizarre ones that leave you awakened in the early morning hours and utterly confused, or wistful daydreams that drift into your head during a particularly uneventful math class, or simply a scene you envision yourself starring in ten years down the line, are all affected more or less by goals you have for yourself or your path in life. However, humans are seasons, shedding their dreams with the appearance of any “wall,” just as trees cast off their leaves. As one ages, and obstacles begin to clutter the eagerness and determination of a young mind, one is likely to give up on or alter their aspirations rather than face the walls that close them off from achieving their dreams. Langston Hughes’s poem, “As I Grew Older,” illustrates just that-- the struggle that the he has had while attempting to achieve his childhood dreams due to obstacles that clutter his path to success.