Language on the Big Screen

The New Yorker describes Lynn Nottage as having "built a career on making invisible people visible." How does Sweat accomplish this and do you think enabling visibility is important? Why or why not?  Sweat successfully represented invisible people in America. The backbone of America if you will. America thrives off its workers because if no one was doing the difficult stuff and the painstaking labor that workers do every day without complaint America wouldn’t be the America it is today, yet many people have the luxury of not considering the backbone of America or even realizing that they are there. When I order my Amazon packages I don’t think about the workers who are putting in their labor and effort into getting me my order as fast as possible, and the worker who is driving during Christmas making sure that my order is delivered on time. Sweat represents what a major part of America goes through to make ends meet. It reveals the hidden and overlooked difficulty, pain, and...

  Langston Hughes was a Black American poet, social activist, and novelist. He authored many poems and tended to write about the working-class lives of Black people and the hardships they faced, "avoiding both sentimental idealization and negative stereotypes".  In this blog, I will be analyzing a poem by Langston Hughes, "Mother to Son". In the poem, it can be inferred by the title and the poem that a mother is advising her son about the hardships of life. The main theme that can be learned from this poem is to never give up even when life tries to knock you down. Throughout the poem, many colloquialisms are written to represent where the mother grew up. It can be inferred that she grew up in a not-so-safe place as well as that she did not receive much education. She uses phrases and words such as "a-climbin'", "turnin'" and "I've still goin'" while talking to her son. Her tone is very informal and shows that she did no...