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Langston Hughes and Richard Wright both evolved from the same literary period. Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri. Richard Wright was born in Roxie, Mississippi. Both authors wrote literatures in the 1930s. They had dissimilar writing styles, which were portrayed from their collected works; however, there were also similarities between the two authors. Hughes was a poet, novelist, and a playwright. During the 1930s, Hughes, as a popular writer connected with the Harlem Renaissances, became a public figure, working as a journalist, lecturing, and bringing out anthologies of black writing. Wright, on the other hand, worked for the Writers’ Project and did innumerable freelance journalisms. In 1935, he started to write fictions, which was strongly influenced by the literary Naturalism during that era. Richard Wright was an artist of complexity and subtlety. Hughes and Wright were both African American writers at that time. Their themes and writing styles leans towards racism, discrimination and equality. We see some of these ideas depicted in “Red Headed Baby” by Langston Hughes and “The Man Who Almost a Man” by Richard Wright. Social political issues were also portrayed, along with similarities in their writing language. Those themes were the main thoughts talked and written about during that era.

Langston Hughes and Richard Wright both address the idea of race in America. Like most African American writers, these two authors mainly wrote about racial themes. They were concerned with the struggles of African Americans during the late nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries. Hughes used humor and sometimes irony, to portray the indication of racism. Myriad writings published by Langston Hughes have also captured the struggl...

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...American farm laborer struggling to assert his identity in the restrictive racist atmosphere of the rural South. Dave wants to own a gun so he can win respects from people. Being a dark skin and having a gun may show power and masculinity since whites were always the ones who shows power. Wright uses this idea to tell society that they shouldn’t be discriminated from others and everyone should have the same level of power.

Through many Langston Hughes and Richard Wright’s literary works, both authors sought to build up his community of African-Americans by instilling in them a sense of pride and triumph. This theme was frequently applied to their works as they wrote to encourage their readers to fight the skirmish against racism. They had hopes that their writings would somehow make a difference, a difference in which the world could change from its biased ways.