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Why You Reckon Analysis

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Many are rich many are poor many have money many don’t. Have you ever had a moment where you did something selfish for desperation of money and karma hit you right back with a right hook?. And felt regret towards yourself. In the short story “Why, You Reckon” the author uses irony and dialogue, to show the audience that money can't buy happiness. “Why, You Reckon” takes place in Harlem, at the time Harlem was a predominantly African/American community in the 1930’s when this took place. Racism was still going on, segregation between the whites and blacks, that put the African/American community at lower economically weren't as wealthy as the whites. Many did not have good jobs worked at bad jobs like the character who helped rob the white men in a basement where he worked at, that all reflects with “Why, You Reckon” “the first white guy what come out o’ one o’ these speakeasies and looks like bucks, we gonna grab him” (Langston Hughes, 253) shows how un wealthy the African/ American community was but some had a conception that money makes you …show more content…

Not all the characters can relate to each other while both the narrator and the folks are dealing with poverty and on the other hand Ed-ward is the wealthy one. The narrator is a innocent men who is just another hungry man because the times in Harlem where bad, he comes across the folks and the folks convince him to help them but this where the both characters are different. It’s time where Ed-ward starts to come across, the narrator and the folks grab Ed-ward and throw him down to a basement. The folks took all of Edward's things and the narrator ended up with nothing, only ones left are the narrator and Ed-ward, both characters realize one thing because of what Ed-ward said “that's the first exciting thing that's ever happened to me,” (Langston Hughes, 258) it made them both realize that you don’t need money to find

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