Hughes' "Theme for English B"

     Hughes' Theme for English B was incredibly deep, and heart felt, and meaningful.  The meaning behind it however may be different for other people, but I think one of the reasons I felt so stringly about it is because I am a writer, and I can experience something like this, I thought about it, and thought about what I think when I write.  Or even when I get an assignment.  And after a long time of thinking about all those thoughts over the years, never once have I felt so stronly about the assignment or the person who assigned it, nor did any assingment ever bring up this long thing about the history and lives and such of people.  The race, the religion, the number of family members, the this the that.  I never really think about anything but the assignment, but he, "the twenty-two, colored, born in Winstom Salem man" thought deep, and far back and long and hard about it and its inspiring.

     I'm not sure in what way I mean, but it is something that can affect people.  It affected me by reading this and I really enjoyed it and I will probably pay more attention to or think more about things when I get an assingment.  For all I know it will spark my creativity, and off I'll go.  But never, could i ever feel the...struggle? pain? sorrow? or happiness? joyfulness? of this man. I could never experience what he has experienced, but I sure enjoyed his aspect of it and his ability to write, or not write, because of it. 

     You wonder.  What is this man feeling?  What did Hughes intend for him to feel when writing this?  Did I take this the way Highes wanted me to?  Or did this story alone spark our imagination enough to think up what we thought?  Was that the point?  It's kind of like a mind, hypnotist.  We don't know what they want us to do or know or think, but once we've thought it, we can't take it back and so we are forced to wonder, are we right about it.   Well maybe that's the point.  You're supposed to think.  And I know I'm getting way off topic, but like I said, it sparked my imagination and creativity, I was inspired, and just couldnt stop writing! ;)

Read for yourself...and see what happens! :)