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Langston Hughes Study Guide

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by Milton Meltzer
About 46 pages (13,843 words)
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Langston Hughes Study Guide consists of approx. 46 pages of summaries and analysis on Langston Hughes by Milton Meltzer. Browse the literature study guide below:

  Overview

  About the Author

  Plot Summary

  Chapter Summaries & Analysis

Langston Hughes never considered himself a poet until the age of fourteen, when his grammar school classmates nominated him for class poet. Hughes had not written any poems, but his classmates, who were all white, knew that good poems had rhythm. Since Langston was black, and black people were supposed to have rhythm, Langston's classmates assumed he would be a good poet. He delivered his first poem on graduation day. (read more)
      Chapter 1, Wandering
      Chapter 2, Brass Spittoons
      Chapter 3, Homesick Blues
      Chapter 4, Central High
      Chapter 5, Hurry Up! Hurry Up!
      Chapter 6, I've Known Rivers
      Chapter 7, Columbia vs. Harlem
      Chapter 8, Africa
      Chapter 9, A Garret in Paris
      Chapter 10, Busboy Poet
      Chapter 11, College Man
      Chapter 12, Black Renaissance
      Chapter 13, Not Without Laughter
      Chapter 14, People Need Poetry
      Chapter 15, Jim Crowe Southern Style
      Chapter 16, Around the World
      Chapter 17, Dream Deferred
      Chapter 18, Rehearsal
      Chapter 19, The Bloody Spanish Earth
      Chapter 20, Theater in a Suitcase
      Chapter 21, Poems-And Politics
      Chapter 22, Simple Speaks His Mind
      Chapter 23, I Used to Wonder

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  Setting

  Social Sensitivity

  Literary Qualities

  Themes

  Themes and Characters

  Style

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