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Literary_Analysis Research Essay Spring 2019

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After analyzing Hughes’ work through the Marxism criticism, a clear parallel can be seen throughout his life and work as he writes about the experiences of Black America, the struggle against racism and bigotry, and the contrast to the experience of whites.

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Thomas, Lorenzo. "'It Is the Same Everywhere for Me': Langston Hughes and the African Diaspora's Everyman." Montage of a Dream: The Art and Life of Langston Hughes. Ed. John Edgar Tidwell, Arnold Rampersad, and Cheryl R. Ragar. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2007. p187

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Sundquist, Eric J. “Who Was Langston Hughes?” Langston Hughes, New Edition, Chelsea House, 2014. Bloom's Literature, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=99152&itemid =WE54&articleId=359917. Accessed 20 Apr. 2019.

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a. Give your proposed solution:
b. Restate Thesis:

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a. Transitional Topic Sentence:
b. Claim:Throughout Hughes’ work he uses the juxtaposition of extremes to illustrate the disparity between Black and White America.
c. Evidence (Quote):
d. Explanation:

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a. Transitional Topic Sentence:
b. Claim:
c. Evidence (Quote):“From an early age, Hughes too was quick to stand up to racial prejudice, and his writings are filled with evidence of a lifelong struggle against racial bigotry…” (Sundquist).
d. Explanation:

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a. Transitional Topic Sentence:
b. Claim:Parallels between Hughes’ lived experiences and his poetry can be seen in his early work.
c. Evidence (Quote):One critic praises the poem for "creat[ing] the universal and eternal Negro whose modern situation differs from antiquity primarily in the loss of power and self-determination" (Thomas).
d. Explanation:

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Poems
“Negro Speaks of Rivers”,
“Dinner Guest Me”,
“Park Bench",

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Langston Hughes
Marxism Theory

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a. Hook-Langston Hughes was an important literary figure emerging during the Harlem Renaissance, who would influence the Arts and what would later become the Civil Rights movement.
b. General Statement
c. Transition Statement
d. Thesis Statement