Vanshika Unveiled

  Throughout reading the play Sweat, I’ve noticed many instances where I felt that friends and family members become the barriers to a character achieving his goals. Interestingly enough, I’ve also noticed certain characters supporting one another and being a huge reason in the achievement of a goal. This contrast in character dynamics serves to show that there will always be certain barriers in life, including the people closest to you.    Friends and family can both support and obstruct one another which can be shown with Brucie’s and Chris’s relationship. Brucie was a role model to Chris since he was young and this made Chris lift him to a pedestal. Because of this, Chris feels the unions fight is also his fight, and he’s “…gonna make ‘em see [him]”(88). This fight, which is prompted by the idolization of his father, comes after the decision of Chris setting his dream off to the side. He wanted to go to Albright to be a teacher, but then we found out Chris “didn’t enro...

  In the poem Harlem, the author, Langston Hughes, reveals his feelings as a black writer, segregated from white writers. In the poem he includes multiple ideas reflecting how a dream deferred can have multiple endings, good, or bad. In the second stanza of the poem, he raises a question about a raisin and the sun which shows that he is still imagining his dream being fulfilled, as he hasn’t experienced that yet. This shows the inequality present in the time the poem was written. In that case it was racial inequality, and how black people didn’t receive the same treatment and basic rights that they deserved. Now, in the current day, it reflects the social inequality. It being political, gender, and even wealth inequality. This poem will always be relevant. while not in the same context, it can be used as a basis of the unfair treatment people experience worldwide.