An Autobiography of a Columbia University Student, Langston Hughes

Surface value "English B theme" is autobiography of a 22-year-old college student with high academic background at Columbia University. This autobiography is a response to the task given by the student professor. This work provided a way for the speaker to speak to his classmates about the unfair treatment he had at school. This young man is African-American, and mentioning to his race can be his own basic fact, but they are racial, inequality, and he with the flaws he deals with It reflects the struggle of.

Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, is an abolition home. His grandfather was James Martha Langston, the first black Americans elected civil servant in 1855. After graduating from high school, Hughes went to Columbia University to study engineering, but soon dropped out to pursue his first love, poetry. He never turned back. Hughes moved to Harlem at the height of the Golden Age. He will also continue his journey to Africa and Europe for self discovery and return to America to have a more free and confident view of African American and his identity as an artist.

At this point in history, many Americans, especially ethnic minorities, can not read or write. Langston Hughes was fortunate to be able to read and write his talent. For financial stability, Hughes was able to attend Columbia University and Lincoln University. African Americans rarely reach this level of research. Langston Hughes was highly educated by African Americans, but many of his poems still used "black slang" and southern dialects. In "Po'Boy Blues" he not only communicates the idea of ​​black repression through the verse's words of poetry but also through the dialect used.

Various cities live with many relatives, Langston Hughes experiences poverty. Langston Hughes talks to people in poetry. Langston Hughes was a pioneer of African-American literature, a mistake in Harlem Renaissance. Mr. Hughes devoted his poem to African American struggle, pride, dream and racial cheating. Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri on 1 February 1902 and was born at James Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes named after his grandfather James Martha Langston,