Weekly Conclusions

The play Sweat by Lynn Nottage focuses on the lives and experiences of working class americans in an industrialized town while explorering their fiscal and personal issues. The play surround its theme on issues such as economic decline, race, and the impact of industrial changes on communities rather than directly exhibiting nativis and xenophobia.   I n the play Tracey and Jason express their resentment towards Oscar who they perceive as someone whos taking away job opportunities by being racist to him and calling him racial slurs.  This competition for employment fuels nativist emotions with some characters blaming Oscar who they classify as an immigrant for their economic struggles. Even after Oscar says " I was born here" traccey continues to make his feel like an outsider when she says you wenret actually born here. T racey also exhibits Xenophobia when her bestfriends Cynthia gets the job that they both applied for and then justifes her unsupportive and prejudice behavi...

Langston Hughes' poem "Harlem," is a part of his book like poetry the "Montage of a Dream Deferred". The poem addresses and and explores themes of unfulfilled dreams and what he wonders they might feel like. The poems title signfies an important time in Black culture histroy because "Harlem" was a vibrant neighborhood in Manhattan, New York where music, fasion, art, dance and more had sprouted unity amongst the Black community of Harlem. The poem opens with an ipen ended questions of "What happens to a dream deferred?" applying a sense of lost hope and fear of what might happen if dreams are left alone as dreams. Hughes utilizes similies and metaphors throughout the poem to illustrate his wordering and ideas of the centeral idea- what might happened to a dream unfulfilled? he goes on to wonder whether they dry up, sag, or even go so far to explode demonstating the wide range of emotions that can be felt if a dream remains unfulfilled.