SHORT STORY

Short Story

Short Story

Introduction

Langston Hughes (Missouri, United States, 1902 - New York, United States, 1967) was a poet, novelist and columnist black. The Harlem Renaissance best knows it for its links, which was one of its drivers. Langston Hughes is not only because he has practiced all kinds, including the musical, but because it is one of the first African American to have lived by his pen and undoubtedly, he who has the most to publicize the cultural productions of his peers around the world through its collections, anthologies, translations, articles and personal contacts. As an American novelist, playwright, poet and journalist, he was the first pioneers of new literacy forms of jazz art and forms of poetry. Although his well- known work is “Harlem Renaissance” that has been a milestone in his carrier. Ultimately, Hughes's objective seems to be to provide blacks with identities as Americans, living in a democracy that ensures life without prejudice (Hughes, 2001).

Langston Hughes a writer who drew on varied and vast experiences. At his child hood, he worked as a delivery boy, short- order cook and farm hand, began a pattern of restless travel that will take him to Europe, The Caribbean, the Soviet Union and Asia as well as to dozens American cities and towns he at one time. Although he had written many short stories, librettos, plays, nonfiction and essay, he is a poet who would be remembered who through his writing explores the pride, pain and humiliation of being black in America (Laurie & Langston Hughes, 2004).

On The Road

It is a fact that our personal experiences either good or bad tends to have a very great impact on our own personal beliefs and understanding, Just like what Douglas Adams said, “ The universe, life and Everything” relies on what you belief. Similarly, in Langston Hughes short story “On the road”, represents the view of religion and god in such a way which reflects that portrays his personal experiences. As from his childhood till his upbringing Langston has seen racial discrimination and could feel the deleterious effect on the society due to it. Then he introduces his main character of the story “Sergeant”, and shows how his faces many problems due to the class differentiation and how he survived in such a society. The most amusing part was how Hughes in order to grab the readers' attention uses direct and secondary characters, which could tell what his perspective was in this regard (Litwack & August, 2001).

The story of “On the road” starts up with the only character that presented directly by showing the reader the point of view of a Negro and his problems. Story clearly shows that how a cold and tired man stepping off a train in order to search for the solutions he is facing. He then encounters Reverend Dorset who refuses to allow him entering in his rectory just because of the racial bias. Either being Christ or Christian but Dorset's reaction and action clearly show that it ...