Still unable to take the bar exam he left his wife and new son and moved to Cuba and then to Mexico. ... There he attended school at Central High. ... While working as a busboy in a hotel he placed three poems on the dinner table of a poet named Vachel Lindsay. ... One of the main reasons I believe he is still read today is because of the style of writing he used. ... He also incorporated slanged language to reflect the essence of Black American culture. ...

• Word Count: 774
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

There was always an abundance of food, always "plenty of orange, grapefruit, tangerine, guavas and other fruits" in the Hurstons" yard, and always chicken and eggs on their table. In fact, there was such a surplus of food that the children could use the eggs as missiles and oranges as hand grenades to play with. ... Mama wanted her children to stay at home, her reason being that they had "plenty of space to play in; plenty of things to play with; and, furthermore, plenty of [siblings] to keep each other's company", and that there was no reason for them to be running around outside as if...

• Word Count: 534
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He never thought that whites would be allowed to "flood the little cabarets and bars where formerly only colored people laughed and sang, and where now the strangers were given the best ringside tables to sit and stare at the Negro customers-like amusing animals in a zoo."" (100) Hughes was able to see Blacks rise and allow the whites to infiltrate their establishments until they caused them to fall again, like they always managed to do in the past. ... And the smaller clubs had no big floor shows or a name band like the Cotton Club, so without black patronage, they were not amusing at all.""...

• Word Count: 1250
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

There was not much to do in Mexico and he began to hate it. ... So he quit and got a job as a busboy wiping tables and washing dishes at a hotel. He there met Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (Who is considered a founder of modern singing poetry. ... Lindsay published his discovery of this new black poet. ... He became and is still recognized as a famous American Poet. ...

• Word Count: 1086
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Nanny also speaks directly about the lack of control that black people; especially black women have over their world. ... Despite the fact that this was done by Nanny to try and protect Janie from the horrible fate of so many other black women, that kind of protection is very controlling, even if it isn't meant to be. ... Because of the poisoning there is a stigma associated with the Blackwood family, and Merricat faces verbal torture from the townspeople as she makes her twice weekly trips into town. ... She does that early on with a milk pitcher when Helen Clarke appears for tea early i...

• Word Count: 1902
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School