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Cullens Work supports the American Dream by Success in both black and white cultures,

Formulating an aesthetic that embraced both cultures. Believing that art transcended race and that it could be used to minimize the distance between black and white people.

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The entire story is telling us that their days of slavery will be no more. This story in particular inspired the African Americans in the Harlem Renaissance to stand up to white people. From the Dark Tower can be interpreted as Cullen’s own American Dream, wanting everyone to be equal.

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This story is to tell African Americans to hope and believe in a better future(the american dream) just like the main character Amari. Cullen shares this idea because he is similar in believing of the American Dream. This book was so well received that other African American poets followed his footsteps writing their own version of the american dream.

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"Will you be wantin' her mama, sir?" the auctioneer said to Mr. Derby. "I offer her to you first, out of respect, you see."

Polly watched as Mr. Derby, who had walked up to the stage to claim his property, glanced at the older woman standing next to the slave girl, then said, "No, Horace, but thanks for the offer. Family ties only confuse the poor creatures. They'll forget each other as soon as the sun sets. Trust me."

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"Will you be wantin' her mama, sir?" the auctioneer said to Mr. Derby. "I offer her to you first, out of respect, you see." Polly watched as Mr. Derby, who had walked up to the stage to claim his property, glanced at the older woman standing next to the slave girl, then said, "No, Horace, but thanks for the offer.

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Source #3 Analysis of Fruit and The Flower

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Source #3 Analysis of Fruit and The Flower

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The Fruit and The Flower is a great story that gives an idea of Countee Cullen’s fight for injustice. This story may be a story about himself as well, wanting to write poem his own way, not having to deal with supremacy and differences. This poem is to inspire other young African Americans to stand up and do what they believe in, no matter what other people think of them.

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Countee Cullen is one of the most well-known poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Born as Countee LeRoy Porter, Cullen was raised by his maternal grandmother for the first few years of his life. He later was adopted by the Cullen family to become Countee Cullen. With his adoptive family, Cullen lived in Harlem, New York, which later became the headquarters of the Harlem Renaissance. Being raised in the center of this all-black society influenced Cullen's style of writing. The man's writing style is distinctly demonstrated in his poem, "Fruit of the Flower". In "Fruit of the Flower", Cullen conveys the message that African-Americans should be treated as equal to white Americans. The song, "Team", written and vocalized by Lorde, a modern pop This mother --symbolizing discrimination-- is puritan and modest in a way that, according to the racist white Americans, was normal and reasonable. It was a part of their lifestyles to discriminate the black population of which they viewed inferior compared to themselves and other white people. The "inferior" ...show more content...
African American population as a whole, including Countee Cullen himself, is represented by the son of the father and mother in Cullen's poem. The parents and son are having an argument. The child questions how he is in the wrong when the parents used to be and maybe even still are just like their son. The speaker of the poem, the son, argues that he can be who he wants to be and no one was born worse or better than he was born as. This is expressed in the lines, "Why should he deem it pure mischance / A son of his is fain / To do a naked tribal dance" (Cullen 17-19). A "naked tribal dance" is a major connection to the issue of racial inequality during Cullen's life and the Harlem Renaissance. The aforementioned phrase included in the poem, "Fruit of the Flower", along with the mentioning of "checkered sod" setting the mother's "flesh aquiver" (Cullen 15-16) and the "mystic river" that the mother chants for (Cullen 14) all connect to Africa. An important African-American figure of the Harlem Renaissance is a man named Marcus Garvey. Garvey publicizes his belief that African Americans should go (back) to Africa and start their own

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Analysis Of Fruit Of The Flower By Countee Cullen

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Countee Cullen is one of the most well-known poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Born as Countee LeRoy Porter, Cullen was raised by his maternal grandmother for the first few years of his life. He later was adopted by the Cullen family to become Countee Cullen.

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Poems like "Incident" remain a powerful testament to the horrors of racial prejudice. This may be the result of him writing poems to show America the problems that African Americans had faced. People reading this could relate to his traumatic experience at a young age which supports the idea of having to live with those problems and face them head on.

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1Once riding in old Baltimore,

2 Heart-filled, head-filled with glee,

3I saw a Baltimorean

4 Keep looking straight at me.

5Now I was eight and very small,

6 And he was no whit bigger,

7And so I smiled, but he poked out

8 His tongue, and called me, "Nigger."

9I saw the whole of Baltimore

10 From May until December;

11Of all the things that happened there

12 That's all that I remember.

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1Once riding in old Baltimore, 2 Heart-filled, head-filled with glee, 3I saw a Baltimorean 4 Keep looking straight at me. 5Now I was eight and very small, 6 And he was no whit bigger, 7And so I smiled, but he poked out 8 His tongue, and called me, "Nigger."