What Is The Theme Of Langston Hughes Being African American

Langston Hughes Theme for English B

James Mercer who we all knew as Langston Hughes, was born in Joplin, Missouri February 1, 1902. Right after Hughes was born his parents James Hughes and Carrie Langston, decided to separate. His father went his way and his mother she moved around a lot so his maternal grandmother raised him. Mary, Hughes grandmother had an impact that influenced him into writing poetry. After his grandmother passed he eventually went to stay with his mother where they got settled in Ohio. Hughes began writing poetry throughout his years in high school.

Once Hughes graduated from high school some of his work began to be published in magazines. During his college years he became a very important key figure with his poetry

The tone that is set is an uncertain attitude towards this assignment that his teacher had wanted them to do. It was a struggle for the narrator to do this assignment. Because he was the only African American student in his class would they really understand what his paper was about? Would they really understand the daily struggle of being African American? “It’s not easy to know what is true for you or me.”(p468) Even though he is a young African American student he is the same as the next no matter the color of his skin; he likes the same stuff as the next person. He’s trying to figure out life he’s trying to understand life all together and he has the right to he is still young he has time to figure it all

His legacy still lives on 50 years later he is still remembered from his creative genius that was influenced by his life in New York City's Harlem, a primarily in an African American neighborhood. Even though growing up and not having the support of his father to become a writer he still accomplished it. All thanks to his maternal grandmother for the stories she told him when he was younger and it let his imagination go wild. His work now has the world’s imagination going wild people still read and reminisce on his work. Hughes was also influenced Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt