"A Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes speaks for African-Americans in a long struggle for racial justice, for people who believe in the American dream that anything is attainable through hard work. The concept plays on the idea that American is a classless society, although it is obviously not, as any honest examination of the United States will reveal. The idealistic vision of the American Dream also assumes that people are not discriminated against on the basis of race, religion, gender, and national origin, another thing which is unfortunately not true in the United States.
Many people believe that the structure of American society belies the idealistic goal of the American Dream, pointing to examples of inequality rooted in class, race, and ethnic origin which suggest that the American Dream is not attainable for all.
For instance, African Americans in many parts of the nation resisted to racial segregation and discrimination with strategies such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, marches, protests and boycotts. However, still they were denied the American Dream that all Americans deserved.
For instance, African Americans in many parts of the nation resisted to racial segregation and discrimination with strategies such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, marches, protests and boycotts. However, still they were denied the American Dream that all Americans deserved.
I liked the way you structured this blog out. You give good details of what the content and context of the poem means and what the poet is trying to say. It also feels like you could of added a little more information about how a dream is deferred. Overall, good job.
ReplyDeleteYou pieced together the information very well. It explains the poem almost as if you wrote this essay yourself. You do a good job showing how "A Dream Deferred" relates to the American dream.
ReplyDeleteTuyen, you have great facts in your entry. I feel like you really picked out the information that I was thinking of when I read Hughes' poem. Maybe expanding on specific examples about how African Americans have fought to realize their dreams despite discrimination in America would be useful to the context of "Harlem". You started off stating which poem you are writing about, but did not include it in your conclusion, which I think would really help tie your information together and relate it to the poem. Nice researching!
ReplyDeleteThe construction of your blog was nice and simple. Many things are pointed out about African Americans and the "American Dream." I do wish you would have directly quoted or written something about a line or simile from Hughes' poem and paralleled it to your explanation. I think you could have elaborated a little more on how this "dream" was/is being denied or deprived from African Americans. Nice job, though.
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