Summarizing - Book Report/Review Example

Download file to see previous pages... The suffering he saw around him as a slave and all that was said about slaves made him to learn a lot, which he placed on practice to minimize the impact.
Secondly, Frederick Douglass learned the power of words and this enabled him to publish magazines where he expressed himself by giving deep feelings about slavery. For instance, he published different magazines, which aimed at pushing the government towards initiating reforms and exercising equality among all races. He learned that the publications had power to influence changes in the country to guarantee freedom to all (Caesar 4-9). Therefore, he learned that whatever people did had an impact in pushing the government of the day to bring reforms. Hence, his continuation to publicize enabled him to learn a lot, which led to changes realized today.
In the poem, Langston Hughes, the narrator is a black person who tells a white man that he is his father. However, the white man says, “you are my son! Like hell” (Utley 5). The white man does not acknowledge that the black speaker has something to offer, and this leads to abuse. For instance, the white man calls the speaker “bastard” and this annoys the speaker making him call him by the same name (Utley 9). The speaker also informs the white man that he (white) is a “nigger” because they come from the same father and do not want to recognize the other. However, the white man does not want to accept that he is also a person of color even if he came from the same father and argues that he is okay. Because of this notion, the black speaker finishes his poem by stating that the white man’s son is “a little yellow bastard boy” (Utley 15).
The poem is trying to fight for equality among the biracial children, a notion that the white families are trying to avoid. For instance, the speaker says that they need to be equal in case they are from the same father rather than looking at the skin color. Through ...Download file to see next pagesRead More