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This poem is about a mother giving her daughter advice. She is trying to teach her daughter how to be a good woman and not a "slut". This almost seems like the reverse of Quincenera where it's the girl trying to figure out how to be a woman. This is a mother trying to show her daughter how to be a woman. Giving her the facts of life.

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Muhammad Yunus has been quoted as saying, "Human beings have enormous resilience" People are ever changing and ever fighting for what they believe and when they fall they always look to get back up and make it through. To me all of these poem represent people who are looking to find a way to be happy in their lives and push through. They can be beacons of hope and also have lessons we must learn.

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"Harlem (Dream Deferred)" by Langston Hughes p. 742

This is a person simply asking to what happens when a dream isn’t realized. Is it something that stays with us as a weight on our hearts, is it something that gnaws at our inner most feelings? Or is it something that just explodes and is gone? This is a person sounds like someone who hasn’t deferred a dream, because they don’t seem to know how it feels.

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'America" by Claude McKay p. 679

This poem is about a person finding their new identity as an American Citizen. While this person is expressing love for America there is also reluctance. The poem seems to express the attraction and the antagonism the person felt in the nation. Especially in the line “I love this cultured hell that tests my youth!”

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"Quinceanera" by Judith Ortiz Cofer p. 681

In this poem the girl is starting to identify herself as a woman, where her mom says now she needs wash her own clothing and sheets. This is a girl who does not yet feel that she is quite a woman, but that in the Latin society she is having her “coming out party”. This party is her transition from a little girl to a woman and she doesn’t want it.

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“RITE OF PASSAGE”

This poem has an aspect of boys trying to find where they fit on the pecking order and see who the leader should be. It is interesting that even at the ages of six and seven how these boys were already looking to establish a hierarchy comparing it to war and generals in the army.

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“SPEECH TO THE YOUNG SPEECH TO THE PROGRESS- TOWARDS”This poem has an aspect of not living for the future, but to take care of the now. That no matter what can be thrown at you to keep moving forward. It is almost like it’s an adult speaking to a child or an adolescent and giving them a pep talk. 

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“SPEECH TO THE YOUNG SPEECH TO THE PROGRESS- TOWARDS”This poem has an aspect of not living for the future, but to take care of the now. That no matter what can be thrown at you to keep moving forward. It is almost like it’s an adult speaking to a child or an adolescent and giving them a pep talk. 

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“MY PAPA’S WALTZ”

This poem is has a very dark undertone to it. It talks about how the child sees the father’s alcoholism. He described things like “we romped until the pans slid from the kitchen shelf”, it almost looks like even though the father was a brute and mistreated the child the wording, “romped” has a playful aspect to it. Yet ultimately it’s sad because in the end the child just wants the love of the father so bad that he is left clinging to his shirt.

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“THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS”This poem is about a child who is talking about his father’s routine and how even a child realizes how thankless the work is. The child observed what his father did and it seems never really understood what it took. To me it’s almost like it was written in retrospect especially with the last line saying, “What did I know of loves austere and lonely offices”.

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“THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS”This poem is about a child who is talking about his father’s routine and how even a child realizes how thankless the work is. The child observed what his father did and it seems never really understood what it took. To me it’s almost like it was written in retrospect especially with the last line saying, “What did I know of loves austere and lonely offices”.

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In A&P is set in a grocery store in the1960's . Sammy is the cashier who sees 3 girls come in and they are not properly dressed. In stead they are wearing bathing suits and getting looks from everyone who passes them. Sammy is clearly impressed by the way they do not care that they are dressed differently. Sammy classifies the people of his town as sheep, but when he sees the main girl come in, he calls her Queenie. He believes himself not to be a sheep and romanticizes that Queenie is not either because she does not fit the way a girl in that time should be dressed and also due to the way she carried herself. Even when Lengel the manager tried to chastise Queenie and her friends for their dress, she defended and stood up for herself. This in turn caused Sammy to feel that he could make a romantic act and quit his job over the treatment of the girls, also hoping that they would see his heroism. Like all teens this did not happen and the girls just continued on their way while Sammy was left to follow through with this threat.

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In A&P is set in a grocery store in the1960's . Sammy is the cashier who sees 3 girls come in and they are not properly dressed. In stead they are wearing bathing suits and getting looks from everyone who passes them. Sammy is clearly impressed by the way they do not care that they are dressed differently. Sammy classifies the people of his town as sheep, but when he sees the main girl come in, he calls her Queenie. He believes himself not to be a sheep and romanticizes that Queenie is not either because she does not fit the way a girl in that time should be dressed and also due to the way she carried herself. Even when Lengel the manager tried to chastise Queenie and her friends for their dress, she defended and stood up for herself. This in turn caused Sammy to feel that he could make a romantic act and quit his job over the treatment of the girls, also hoping that they would see his heroism. Like all teens this did not happen and the girls just continued on their way while Sammy was left to follow through with this threat.

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Langston Hughes' "I, Too, Sing America" sends out a message about the adversities of being a minority in 1940’s America. The narrator labels himself as "the darker brother" who gets sent "to eat in the kitchen / when company comes", this personifies the discrimination that many African Americans were subject to during this time by white Americans. They even controlled where a person would be allowed to eat based on the color of their skin. This poem expressed his feelings about the prejudice he was subject to and how he feels that he will rise above and become a great American.