"I, Too" Langston Hughes Study Monday 8-19-24

 In this class today, we observed and analyzed Langston Hughes' poem "I, Too." In this poem, Hughes touches on key points on race and segregation in America and the future of it from his perspective. This lesson showed me that an American has no particular look, and that the country is a melting pot of diverse Americans. In this lesson I liked comparing his view of the future of race relations to now, and seeing that for the it has become reality for the most part. My day has been decent, but I am tired because I stayed up too late the night before.

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