One Friday Morning By Langston Hughes

Introduction

It's a story that deals with racism. It focuses on a young high school student who is in her last year. She is a gifted artist. She had applied to the scholarship offered by one of the art schools that is nearby. Her family was originally from the Southern part of the United States, they had moved to Washington, D.C. in hopes that their daughter, the protagonist, would have a better chance than they had when they grew up. The setting of the story is most probably still during the segregation era, before Martin Luther King's time. Thus, she, the protagonist, is told ahead of time by the principal, a white woman, of her winning the scholarship so that she can prepare her speech in front of the assembly. Several days later, she' called into the office, where she's given a letter detailing that while her piece of art is remarkable, but they do not accept "colored" art. In a succinct wording; you are black, therefore you are ineligible for a scholarship because we're racist pricks. In the end, she has hope for the future because of what the principal says following what she has read. And her actions condoning the scholarship board's actions.

Discussion

Discrimination is all around us; everyone is discriminated one point in his or her life. Langston Hughes, an African-American writer, wrote the short story “One Friday Morning.” The story is about a girl who was discriminated in her school because she was black. Life brings many disappointments, which make a person stronger. People who discriminate usually have never experienced discrimination.

Nancy Lee, the main character of the story, fits well with her classmates even though she is colored. She is considered smart and fits well with the life of the school. Nancy ...