America Is No Longer The Land Of The Free

This is one of the interesting and insightful poems about America and its idea of “land of the free.” Langston Hughes is saying that America is no longer the land of the free where opportunity is everywhere. He is saying it is not how it was in the beginning with the pioneers traveling west across this great nation to start a life of opportunity. In the early stages of America, a man did not know what awaited him. It was not like the other countries that man knew of; it was not run by nobles who inherited things from their family. A man was made off of the work he put in and the character he showed in making a life for himself and his family. That is the America that will go down in the history books that is what makes this nation so great. Hughes proposes a

America is a place where everyone is equal and opportunity is still available that work harder and have greater character than others. Hughes also brings up an interesting statement in his poem that has made America different in their history than others. This is a land free from kings and tyrants. This is what produced the large number of immigrants into America. These immigrants are what produced the diversity in America today. Hard working people that did not have the opportunity that America presented. A ruler would take next to everything from their subjects so that they could barely survive. These people saw their opportunity to go to a land without the traditions that had not allowed their families to create a better life for themselves. This is the definition of the “American Dream.” Hughes thinks this dream is dead because there are not as many people coming to this country and settling down in unknown property with their family. The American dream is not settling in unknown lands; it has progressed through the generations of those people that came to this country. The families that came over have already experienced a part of the American