James Mecer Langston Hughes: Literary Genius

Hughes withdrew into seclusion following the suicides of his lovers. He “was an intensely private man in an era when privacy is not much allowed” (Wagner 17). He stayed out of the spotlight, because, at the time, feminists accused Hughes of causing the suicide of Plath and Wevill. Even before these events occurred, Hughes viewed the world as:

Langston Hughes is one the most renowned and respected authors of twentieth century America not simply one of the most respected African-American authors, though he is certainly this as well, but one of the most respected authors of the period overall. A large part of the respect and admiration that the man and his work have garnered is due to the richness an complexity of Hughes' writing, both his poetry and his prose and even his non-fictions. In almost all of his texts, Hughes manages at once to develop and explore the many intricacies and interactions of the human condition and specifically of the experience growing up and living as a black individual in a white-dominated and explicitly anti-Black society while at the same time, while at the same time rendering his human characters and their emotions in a simple, straightforward, and immensely accessible fashion. Reading the complexity behind the surface simplicity of his works is at once enjoyable and edifying.

James Mercer Langston Hughes, (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was born in Joplin, Missouri, to James Nathaniel and Caroline Hughes in 1902. Hughes’ parents were of mixed-race, and Langston Hughes was of African American, European American and Native American descent. Hughes' father left his family and later divorced Carrie using it as a way to escape the unbearable racism in America. After his parents’ separation, his mother travelled in

He then received a scholarship to attend Lincoln University. While attending he was introduced to a man named Carl Van along with many more novelist. They used their connections to help get Hughes’s first book. His novel, Not Without Laughter, provides an accurate picture of African American life in Lawrence during the early twentieth century. Later, Hughes creates a popular character of Jesse B Semple, a black urban American with an off- beat sense of humor and strong sense of racial awareness. (African American Biographies states that this is in New York

In the 1900s and early 2000s, the United States started the integration movement to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the health care delivery system. The integrations system was designed to introduce various strategies that healthcare organizations use to achieve the diversification in their services. However, these policies have helped the health care system to gain market share, become more diversified, reduce competition, and increase cost advantages by using existing operation to offer new products or services (Shi & Singh, 2015).

Langston Hughes is regarded as one of the most significant American authors of the twentieth century. Foremost a poet, he was the first African-American to earn a living solely from his writings after he became established. Over a forty-year career beginning in the 1920s until his death in 1967, Hughes produced poetry, plays, novels, and a variety of nonfiction. He is perhaps best known for his creation of the fictional character, Jesse B. Semple, which first appeared in a Chicago Defender newspaper column in 1943. Hughes’ writings focused mainly on the lives of plain black people and show their beauty, wisdom, and strength to overcome social and economic injustice.

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The upper-class blacks shunned the lower class viewing them as being “embarrassingly vulgar” (Dickinson 323). Overcoming African-American prejudice was a major focus in most of Hughes’ writing. For example, he wrote about the joys, sorrows and hopes of the black man in America (Dickinson 321). Not all of his writings were so encouraging however. Other themes Hughes wrote about include lynchings, rapes, discrimination, and Jim Crow Laws. He commented that when he felt bad, he wrote a great deal of poetry; when he was happy, he didn’t write any (Dickinson 321).

Throughout his works, especially his poetry, Hughes also draws inspiration from music. He describes the blues as ‘“sad funny songs – too sad to be funny and too funny to be sad”’ as the songs hold ‘“laughter and pain, hunger and heartache”’ (Poetry Criticism). This point of view is noticeably reflected onto his poems when some stanzas are in the “form of the typical blues song” (Poetry Criticism). In other words, the stanza had two nearly identical lines followed by a third that contrasts the first two and this is seen in Same in Blues where he uses the repetition of the word “baby” in the first two lines. In his poetry, Hughes captures the voices, experience, emotions and spirit of the African Americans during this time. His poems have also been influenced by the Afro-American life essays written by W.E.B. DuBois and the black vernacular (DiYanni p.700-705). This is shown in Fine Clothes to the Jew, as Hughes addresses the hardship and struggle of urban African Americans in Harlem who left the deep south in hopes of achieving their American Dream. However,

and for, one of the reasons that Hughes began to draw on the blues tradition for writing his

John Knowles was an American author who was born in September 16, 1926 in Fairmont, West Virginia. He attended St. Peter’s high school in Fairmont, Virginia from 1938 to 1940 before finishing at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1945. Following his time at Phillips Exeter Academy, he served in the U.S. Army for two years during the WWII.He graduated in Yale University in 1949. While he was at Yale, he contributed stories to campus humor magazine The Yale Record , served on the board of the Yale Daily News and was the editorial secretary his senior year. Early on his career, he wrote for the Hartford Courant and was an assistant editor for holiday magazine. With an encouragement by Thornton Wilder, an American playwright and novelist,

Langston Hughes, an African American writer who interpreted to the world the black experience in the US and portrayed them with skill and insight, was born February 1st, 1902 into the home of the couple James and Carrie Hughes. Hughes ' mother attended college and had an artistic temperament. James Nathanial Hughes was a prosperous lawyer and rancher in Mexico who disliked the black poor and hated Negroes. On April 30, 1899, in Guthrie, Oklahoma, him and his wife Carrie were married and were pregnant within a few days after the wedding. When the U.S. census taker came around on June 5, 1900 the tragedy struck couple reported the loss of their first child, a boy; apparently he was buried earlier that year. Langston came along next and soon after his parents separated. When Langston was between the age of 5 and 7 his parents tried to reconcile with each other in Mexico. The reunion ended on the night of April 14, 1907 after an earthquake shook the ground over a vast region in Mexico. After the incident Carrie, her mother and her son fled Mexico. Hughes was raised by his mother, who later married Homer Clark, and his grandmother, who had served as a conductor on the Underground Railroad with her husband earlier in her life. Langston lived in about half a dozen cities before him and his new family settled in Cleveland. Langston Hughes found his first job; he gathered maple seeds and most likely sold them to the Bartheldes Seed Company.

Written Assignment Unit 4: The Economic and Political Differences Between the Patricians and the Plebeian Classes and the Results of the Revolt Ancient Rome was comprised of two main classes of people; the Patricians and the Plebeians. Their many differences in both economic and political status lead the way to the uprising and revolt of the Plebeians that would forever change the economic fairness and governing of Rome. The term Patrician refers to the ruling class of Ancient Rome. They were derived from the old governing elite and Senatorial families.

Author's Craft Essay In the story Thank you Ma’am the author Langston Hughes uses narration, Descriptive language, and dialog to provide background information, introduce characters, and build suspense within the story. In the beginning of the story the author uses a narrator to build suspense. An example of this is on page 1 the narrator states “It was about eleven o'clock at night and she was walking alone when a boy ran up behind he and tried to snatch her purse.”

The Harlem Renaissance sought to revitalize African American culture with a focus on arts and literature and creating socioeconomic opportunities (Harlem Renaissance). This temporal setting, predominantly the influence of the Harlem Renaissance, of Hughes’s life explains the purpose of Hughes’s writing: to express the oppression of African Americans and the imperfections of Hughes’s America and to heighten African American morale during his life through his writing.