In the poem, he is sent to the kitchen to eat when there are visitors coming to the house. ... In "I, Too,"" Hughes depicts himself as a servant who is sent to eat in the kitchen when company comes. ... He also experienced segregation in theaters, YMCA, Boy Scouts, and even at a child's party. ...
They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes" (Hughes 2-4). ... Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then. ... And I doubted then, that, with his desire to run away spiritually from his race, this boy would ever be a great poet" (Borden 2). ...
Richard only keeps $5 for himself, living in a room above the Daltons kitchen. ... "Black Boy" a novel also written by Richard Wright is another novel which, a young black man has to deal with racism throughout his life. ... This relates to criticism of the black community for allowing themselves to be subservient to whites Richard as a black boy is isolated from the world of the white people, but this isolation is felt with in his own race as well. ...
