Life Is Fine By Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes was born in 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. He grew up mainly in Lawrence, Kansas but also lived in Illinois, Ohio and Mexico. Constantly having to travel he wrote his poem that would make him famous, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”. Having different expectations his parents slit up resulting in him living with his maternal grandmother.

Racism and discrimination in general are things that are sadly practically inevitable. It is very unlikely that you ever will be able to find a society with no discrimination at all. Langston Hughes, who is an African-American writer, shows this in his short story “One Friday Morning”. Langston Hughes sheds light upon things like: The American Dream, equality and The Declaration of Independence. The story is written in the 1950’s which is at the same time The Civil Rights Movement just had been founded. Nancy Lee, the main character, is ‘proud of being American’. She undergoes a big development throughout the story. She gets introduced to discrimination and the fact that discriminate behavior and

Life is Fine is a poem by Langston Hughes. The form of the poem is rhyming couplets. This poems is about him having suicidal thoughts but not actually doing them. The main idea of this poem is that anyone can say their life is fine but in reality their life really isn't fine.

"Life is Fine", by Langston Hughes is a lyrical poem. It basically is based around how life can be hard and you might want to give up but, you have to keep facing life's tragedies. My thesis to this poem is "Do you really think killing yourself would make things better?"

Langston Hughes was born James Langston Hughes, February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. Langston Hughes, named after his grandfather James Mercer Langston, was the first African American elected to public office in 1855. Langston Hughes, mother and father soon

James Mercer Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. James Hughes and Carrie Langston are Hughes’ parents. They later divorced when Hughes was young. After his parents divorced he went to live with his grandmother until he turned thirteen years old. At thirteen years old he moved to Lincoln, Illinois. After living in Illinois he later moved to Cleveland, Ohio to live with his mother. When he moved to Cleveland he started writing poetry (“James Mercer…” par. 2). Langston had many influential poets that he looked up too such as Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman (“James Mercer…”par. 2). Langston Hughes, a gifted African-American poet, whose poetry was driven by blues, jazz, and other prominent ideas of the

Sometimes people can seem cruel and mean, yet underneath the cruelty kindness and compassion that can be is cruel or mean when provoked. Thank You, Ma’am by Langston Hughes is a perfect example of that, how at the beginning she seemed cruel and unusual with her punishment of the child. Then when she got the child home all she could be was nice by having him cleaned, feeding him. All she wanted to do was make him a honest person, just like a mother.

Millions of acts of kindness occur every day, like how Mrs. Jones acted towards Roger. “Thank You, Ma’am” by Langston Hughes shows that forgiveness comes with trust and understanding. This short story has multiple themes; trust is earned, trust comes with kindness, and generosity leads to happiness. But the most important theme that the author indicates is that forgiving the wrongdoer comes with trusting and understanding them. Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones is upset with the boy in the story, Roger. Luella learns to forgive him; he’s only a kid and deserves a second chance. Roger explains that he only wanted money for blue suede shoes. Luella leaves him alone with her purse for awhile which implies that she trusts him. When Mrs. Jones discovers that he didn’t steal her money, she is glad that she trusted him and generously gives him money to purchase the shoes.

Have you ever been dragged around by a women? Well in this story you’ll never know what hit you! In the story a boy named Roger tried to steal a lady's purse named Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones, instead he got kicked in his blue jeaned sitter.The lady took him home and had him wash his face. The lady gave ten dollars and never saw her again. In the article, “Thank You Ma’am,” by Langston Hughes, is realistic fiction. Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones is aggressive and caring.

“Thank you Ma'am” is a short story by Langston Hughes which talks about a lady named, Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones helping a young man, also known as Roger, to change his bad habits to become a better man. In this story Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones takes Roger home and teaches Roger to lead an honest life.

“Life Is Fine” By Langston Hughes is a poem that exhibits death as a Band-Aid for dealing with life itself. The first stanza the narrator goes down to the river and sits by the bank. He sits by the river and ponders about life and how difficult it can be “I tried to think but couldn’t.” His life issues have clouded his mind and he cannot think of any other way to handle this situation. The narrator tires to think of about different solutions to his problems. But his problems are so overwhelming and he is so depressed that there is nothing else that he can think about. He is sitting by the bank right by the water. He isn’t thinking clearly “so I jumped in and sank.” His emotions so clouded with depression that he commits suicide. He sat by the bank and couldn’t think of how he’s life could possibly become any better he deices that suicide is his best option.

To begin with, “Thank You, Ma’am” by Langston Hughes is a short story that takes place at night. In the story there are two characters; Roger and Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones. It starts off with Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones walking to her home to have some dinner; then Roger comes in and attempts to snatch her purse and pocketbook but fails and instead falls to the ground. Mrs. Jones is outraged and yells at him for what he has done. Mrs. Jones notes that his face is dirty and Roger tells her that he has no one, so she takes him home with her; he wishes to just be let loose but she ignores his request and drags him home. Mrs. Jones tells Roger that he messed with the wrong person; she tells him that in the end he will remember her

Langston Hughes was a significant poet during the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920’s. The poem “Life is Fine” shows the obstacles that we face in live. This poem shows hardships for all humanity. Unfortunately this poem is as relative today as in the 1920’s in that we see death as a permanent solution for all our troubles. (2)

Written in 1902 Life is fine is one of the best poems by Langston Hughes. Life is Fine features the cycle of life and how important life is. Life is fine uses such as tone, figurative languages and other devices to get the message across. Langston Hughes structures the poem as a prologue where the narrator narrates his progress from being in total despair to self –realization about how important life is. The poem contains six stanzas, and the first four stanzas are the interpretations of the narrator’s attempts to commit suicide. The narrator’s solid feeling about his situation is getting worse and he’s struggling with it, and he makes another effort to kill himself by leaping from a sixteenth floor of a building in the third stanza. This is also when the reader or the audience comes to recognize the reason he is trying to kill himself. The theme of this poem denotes to the disillusion that people usually have of dying. When there are somethings enormously hard and unhappy, it may

Poetry is a complicated yet beautiful artform. It allows for an individual to express their emotions and ideas by painting a picture using eloquent lines. Although alluring, poetry is also perplexing. It is almost impossible to fully understand what the author was exactly trying to get across in writing. There are however, multiple factors that can be used to help analyze poetry to get a better feel of that certain piece. In this paper, I will be analyzing Life Is Fine by Langston Hughes using irony, symbols, tone, rhyme, rhythm and meter.