All Right Let's Do This One Last Time

     Sweat has many xenophobic and nativist moments, most originating from my favorite uneducated white person, Tracey, and the apple that doesn't fall far from the tree, Jason. Their feelings towards "guys coming over here" (49) with "an apartment filled with seventeen relatives that gotta eat" (100) are clearly resentful and, despite Tracey's denial, filled with scornful prejudice. A conceited sense of irony leads them to believe that because they were born in America of German immigrant descent instead of being born in America of Columbian descent, they have a head-start on some kind of "history" (101) that grants Jason and Tracey the right to belittle, disrespect, and beat a man who is literally doing the most American thing there is: looking for a better job to climb the social ladder. Interestingly enough, this kind of scenario is even more patriotic. After all, what is more American than hypocrisy?       Even this 'diverse nation's...

Langston Hughes uses extended metaphors, end-stop lines, tone, and parallelism to prove that change can only be obtained with patience and persistence. Hughes' extended 'kitchen' metaphor represented segregation and African Americans' lack of power to do much about it but conform and brush it off. Additionally, later Hughes mentions a table where he, an African American, will sit. This table is another metaphor symbolizing the respect and power whites took from them, not allowing them to sit at the table as if they were inhuman. Regardless, Hughes uses end-stop lines to represent his hope that this division will stop, making the second stanza finish with a hopeful tone. Determined that things will change with patience, he stands for other African Americans as he does what he is told while planning and building himself back up to fight for equality. The result of this method of protest is shown by starting off the third stanza with tomorrow, an optimistic glance at the f...