Analysis Of Langston Hughes s The Crucible - 872 Words

America today, is looked at to be the most â€Å"free† country’s to live in. To many people in today’s society, they see America as a great place to live and that you can accomplish or get anything that the person wants. However, there are some key points that Langston Hughes shows in his two poems that can show a reader how America being perfectly â€Å"free† is not the case. Langston Hughes makes three key points in Open Letter to The South and Let America Be America Again, which are America’s equality, freedom, and Race. Langston talks about these three subjects clearly and shows to the audience of these poems how America still has problems for being a free country and how to the surrounding countries America looks to be free, but in the inside America is still struggling with Equality, Freedom, and Race. The first topic to discuss about how America needs a change, is the Equality of America. America still has a problem in certain circumstances w here white and blacks have trouble working together. In Open Letter to The South, Langston Hughes says, â€Å"Let us become instead, you and I, One single hand† (Hughes 21-22). Hughes is telling the audience that America is not being a union and being a team together, but instead America’s workforce is divided and not working together. Hughes is saying here that America needs to become one and all work together. In Let America be America Again, Hughes states, â€Å"There’s never been equality for me, Nor freedom in this â€Å"homeland of the free†Ã¢â‚¬ Show MoreRelatedMedia Magic Making Class Invisible2198 Words   |  9 Pagesshowing the reader the profiles of the peoples lifestyles. He lets you look for yourself at the lifestyles of people as they grow up. By showing the reader the background of the person, you could clearly see the pattern of lifestyle. If the personà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s parents were not so successful and only made about minimum wage, that child did not achieve a much higher status than their parents did. This supports Mantsios statement that what class you are born into affects you throughout your while life. He does