The Southern night full of stars. ... We now take a look back to the setting of a "southern night" (8), a setting that is known for its relevance to black discrimination. Hughes writes that this southern night is "Full of stars, Great big yellow stars" (30-30). ... When Hughes talks about "night air" on line 18, he describes the "Silver moonlight everywhere" (20). ... A nigger night a nigger joy. ...
Two books that demonstrate this are To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee and Night, by Elie Wiesel. ... The novel Night is set in Romania in the 1940s, but during the course of the novel the setting changes to Poland. ... Night opens reader's eyes up to the harsh and brutal treatment of the Jewish population during the holocaust. ...
Also at night when people are in their cars and see him walking down the street they will automatically lock their doors. ... One night he was about to hand in a paper and since it was at night the manager accused him of being a burglar. ...
She set out one night on foot and with some assistance from a friendly white woman, Harriet was on her way. She followed the North Star by night, making her way to Pennsylvania. ... She developed clever techniques that helped make her "forays" successful, including using the master's horse and buggy for the first leg of the journey; leaving on a Saturday night, since runaway notices couldn't be placed in newspapers until Monday morning; turning about and heading south if she encountered possible slave hunters; and carrying a drug to use on a baby if its crying which might put the fug...
Another metaphor that Du Bois wrote is "another pillar of fire by night after a clouded day." ... A "clouded day," meaning ugly, nasty day and "a pillar of fire by night," meaning progression or seeing that things are changing for the better. ...
That night as he tended his injuries young Hughes must have mused disturbed thoughts about fulfillment of his American dream of freedom, justice, and opportunity for all," (James Presley," The American Dream of Langston Hughes" par 1-2). ... "Thank You M'am" begins around 11 o"clock at night. ... Betsy and Clarence get together and planed to do some crazy things that night. They share a few drinks until the night is ruined when Betsy's "red-headed child" peeps his head into the room and is seen by Clarence. ...
The first couplet compares the dark yet beautiful night to his peoples" faces. The next shows that just as the stars illuminate the night sky, his peoples" eyes also light up their faces. ... The night sky which is like the backdrop of space is equivalent to the face of a Negro. ... When all these components are added to each other the result is the glorious night sky sparkling with stars, bright due to the suns reflection on them. ...
The youth of Hughes is brought out by his poem "Harlem Night Club-, a piece that describes living in the moment. ... "Harlem Night Club- is unique in that it describes the integration of blacks and whites in a positive tone. ... Like the earlier poem "Harlem Night Club-, it is a fast-paced, forceful piece. ...
The 20's are gone lots of fine things in Harlem night life have disappeared like snow and the sun- since it became utterly commercial, planned for the downtown tourist trade, and therefore dull."" (101) Everything was coming to an end in Harlem. ... How "the Saturday night rent parties were often more amusing than any night club -...
Slave Day Slave Day is a young adult novel written by Rob Thomas. It is very contemporary, and made me feel as if I were back in high school. This book tells the story of a single day from the vantage point of seven different characters. The day is Slave Day, a wacky fund-raiser at a suburban...
They initially have a very surprising and sweet rapport: "That night they talked. ... Perhaps he was aware of the abnegation in it: the imperious and fierce urgency that concealed an actual despair at frustrate and irrevocable years, which she appeared to compensate each night as if she believed that it would be the last night on earth by damming herself forever to the hell of her forefathers, by living not alone in sin but in filth...
Becoming more strident, the group now articulated opposition to "Niggers, Catholics, Jews...dope, bootlegging, graft, night clubs and road houses, violation of the Sabbath, unfair business dealings, sex and scandalous behavior." ... If it takes all night, I"ll get you so count on it" (38). As John is walking down the street one night minding his own business a white teenager all of a sudden starts to chase John down the street and starts to harass him. ...
Frederick Douglass, originally known as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was one of the most influential African Americans of the nineteenth century Fueled by the brutal mistreatment as a slave, he could no longer take the abuse and fought back against the cruel mistreatment (Notable Blac...
In today's society, there are many people who are stereotyped and/or hated because of who they are, mainly because of the color of their skin. We have come to recite the "separate but equal" line and in reality we still have not fully come to that point in this lifetime. Some may act a...
Flannery O'Connor's short story, Revelation, is about prejudice during the Civil Rights Movement of the nineteen sixties. In her story, O'Connor expresses the prejudice felt by her and many other people of the time. This prejudice did not stop at skin color alone. The prejudice encompassed all a...
Staples liked to walk the streets at night due to his insomnia, every stranger that came close enough to realize that he was a tall black man let their fear take control of them as they avoid him, some even got to the point of fleeing. To the eyes of people (mainly women) at night, he was no different from any other thug or criminal who prowled the street. ...
Richard Wright's story "Big Black Good Man" was written in a time when racial prejudice was a major factor in society. Today we still have racial prejudice, but it is not seen as often as it was back then. The point in which Richard Wright wanted to get across by this story is that you shou...
Sonny's Blues? James Baldwins's "Sonny's Blues" is the account of two brothers who grow up in Harlem in New York City. The two brothers lead very different lives, but share a common bond through their pain and suffering. The suffering and the pain of life is what truly brings them together a...
Beauty The book portrays the African American population as a culture fascinated by its internalization of a "blue-eyed, yellow haired, pink-skinned" beauty ideal. Women of color are judged according to white standards of beauty", and consequently they are always considered ugly. Hence blacks le...
