... nytimes.com) Hughes's two volumes of autobiography together with his essay about his involvement with the National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People (N.A.A.C.P.) and the Civil Rights Movement, Fight For Freedom, chart Hughes's long commitment to comradeship and equality. The first volume, The Big Sea, written in an episodic, lightly comic manner, made virtually no mention of his leftist ... sympathies, and I Wonder As I Wander written in 1956 was Hughes's much-admired second volume of autobiography. ... , with a subdued but stirring musical score by Margaret Bonds."" (ww...

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... Away Peter" is the story of one man's loss of innocence, as he confronts the brutality of human nature during the First World War. Through the central character's voyage of realization, the reader is confronted with a deeply philosophical approach to the meaning of life and death. Whilst on the surface appearing very simplistic and straightforward, multiple themes are intertwined in the framework of the narrative. Jim Saddler's ... not everything in the world is idyllic; he does not realise that not everything has a place. He learns all of this, and more, when he leaves his comfort zone...

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• Grade Level: High School