John Taylor rr2

In “theme for English B", Hughes talks about how different his school is compared to where he is originally from, which is Harlem. The environment of his college is of a white upper-class culture which is dramatically different compared to his poverty-stricken neighborhood of Harlem. The assignment that he has to do is to go home and write a page tonight. And let the page come out of you- then it will be true.” He talks about what he likes to do and what he makes him happy, which includes eating, sleeping, and being in love. The point of the assignment was to show how if someone really took the time to sit down and think about what they like and what they are all about, it turns out that everyone is different in one way or another. For example, with me going to a catholic school my whole life, which included an all boy’s high school where I had to wear a uniform every day, to someone who didn’t go to any form of a private school. I believe Hughes is trying to say how hard it was for him to change from going back and forth from Columbia University to the hard streets of Harlem, and the difference of cultures.