... or the fear of breaking social norms. In other passages, the woman further enhances her infatuation with her cat's life with phrases like, "I stand in the cold kitchen, bowing down to her." This line suggests that she longs for the simple, carefree life of her feline friend, and it poses a juxtaposition in the next line ... his own time. "We took them to the edge/of the field and put them in the shade/of a sand moist clod," suggests the possibility that the boy can choose a different path for himself in the future, a path other than the one laid before him by family expectations and tradi...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... characterized as being very difficult and troublesome for someone so young. His parents, James Hughes and Carolina Mercer Langston, separated when he was a very young boy in 1903. He spent most of his youth moving around to different households, by either living with his mother or grandmother. When Langston turned six he ... to come home from school right away, because she feared he would be hurt by angry white people. In his autobiographical novel, Hughes said as a young boy, "For the first time loneliness strikes me, strikes me terribly settling down in a dull ache round about, in th...

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• Grade Level: High School

... liquor stores. I don't aim to speak on that again." Walter: "Oh- so you don't aim to speak on that again? So you have decided Well, you tell that to my boy tonight when you put him to sleep on the living room couch Yeah- and tell my wife, Mama tomorrow when she has to go out of here to look after ... somebody else's kids. And tell it to me, Mama every time we need a new pair of curtains and I have to watch you go out and work in somebody's kitchen. Yeah you tell me then." (1.2 p. 1009) Since Walter had to postpone his dream, he felt depressed as "like a heavy load". (Hughes 10) Walter f...

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• Grade Level: High School