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A 3 page essay that discusses how Langston Hughes in his short story "One Friday Morning" and James Joyce in "Araby" both describe situations of loss. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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protagonist deals with disappointment and therein lies the moral objective of the work. Hughes (1902-1967) is known as a poet and writer who
took part in the Harlem Renaissance, a flourishing of African American artistic talent that occurred in New York City between roughly 1919 and 1929. "One Friday Morning" was published in
1952, which is a time when African Americans when racial prejudice was not only accepted in mainstream culture, it was the norm.
"One Friday Morning" focuses on the purity and idealism of a young, intelligent, talented black girl, Nancy Lee Johnson. Hughes paints Nancy Lee as an idealist. Her watercolor of an
elderly Negro woman sitting on a park bench on a beautiful spring day gazing at the American flag wins a scholarship to the local Art School.
Hughes indicates the idealism that the picture represents for Nancy Lee, that is, her belief that the United States, despite its many injustices against people of
color, really was a land that honored the "American dream of Liberty and justice for all" (Hughes 5). However, on the day that the scholarship is to be announced, Miss
OShay, the vice principal of the school, tells Nancy Lee that the scholarship was rescinded when the nominating committee learned that Nancy Lee was black. Nancy Lee is crushed
but not defeated. Her idealism, however, becomes subtly changed. With encouragement from Miss OShay who tells her how her ancestors, the Irish, were once similar persecuted in American society, Nancy
Lee vows to fight for equality and justice as an adult and she feels encouraged knowing that "men and women like Miss OShay will help me" (Hughes 8). The story
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