His parents, James Hughes and Carolina Mercer Langston, separated when he was a very young boy in 1903. ... In his autobiographical novel, Hughes said as a young boy, "For the first time loneliness strikes me, strikes me terribly settling down in a dull ache round about, in the dusk." ... Even as a young boy he was ready to take chances in life. ... They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong." ... Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then." ...

• Word Count: 1483
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

There was a pick-up window between the restaurant and the kitchen so visibility was available to the kitchen and to the customers. ... As soon as the employer's wife was inside the boy's home there was ten blacks surrounding her saying snide remarks and using lewd gesturing. ...

• Word Count: 1128
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Words Hurts What would you do if you where a little boy who was taught about racism when you where a child and you had to pick the right thing to do or the wrong thing? ... But through the years that is exactly what it has come to. " Niggers is always talking about witches in the dark by the kitchen fire; but when ever one was talking and letting on to know all about such things, was corked up and had to take a back seat." ... This is a little boy that had to choose slavery or a friend. ... When Twain put his novel together, he want to show how people where treated and how a white boy coul...

• Word Count: 1050
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Richard only keeps $5 for himself, living in a room above the Daltons kitchen. ... "Black Boy" a novel also written by Richard Wright is another novel which, a young black man has to deal with racism throughout his life. ... This relates to criticism of the black community for allowing themselves to be subservient to whites Richard as a black boy is isolated from the world of the white people, but this isolation is felt with in his own race as well. ...

• Word Count: 1217
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

" when the girls at school wanted to be particularly insulting to a boy she could say, Bobby loves Pecola Breedlove! ... Pecola is handling a blueberry pie when the Fisher girl comes into the kitchen. ...

• Word Count: 1291
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School