• Langston Hughes Poems Pdf

Cold outside. It was warm inside, and the big combination played twelve wonderful records without stopping. Seven people were dancing, three couples and Marcel. Midnight.It was Marcel’s apartment, and he was a fairy. Nobody else was unusual in that regard. But Marcel was a fairy and he had inserted a “de la” in his name—Marcel de la Smith was how he had been known for a long time on his cards.

He had once called himself Marcel de la Smythe, but his friends had been so tickled at this addition of a “y” and an “e” (“Aw, you still ain’t nothing but old Smith!”) that Marcel had dropped the Smythe affectation, keeping merely the “de la” as an indication of French Creole origin, although he had never been near New Orleans. He was from McKeesport, Pennsylvania, and although he had a good nature, he did not really relish being made fun of on certain scores.It was Marcel’s apartment, and seven people were dancing. Six were colored and one was white. Marcel himself was colored, a muddy brown and not good-looking. It was he who danced alone.

His dancing was too fanciful to be masculine and too grotesque to be feminine. But everything that he did was like that, so it was very easy to tell that he was a fairy. He did not mind dancing alone, because, although the party was at his house, it was not his party. Marcel often gave parties to make money.

He sold drinks and rented rooms—even to mixed couples, which many housemen in Harlem did not do. Perhaps that was why there was one white person dancing to the big mahogany combination dropping its twelve wonderful records.The reason I say “perhaps” about the white girl is that I do not know the ultimate “why” of anything. I know all about that girl except “why.” “Why” is the very mystery. In fact, “why” is the final wonder called God.Joan was a very attractive girl. Anyone could see that she was not a tramp. And the slight, young, golden-skinned boy with whom she danced was attractive, too, in a tennis-playing intellectual way.

Until Claude brought her, the white girl had never been to Harlem. Now, however, she had been uptown a dozen times. But this was the first time that Claude had brought her to an apartment where they rented rooms to couples.In the cold coming wintertime, it is good to be very close to someone who is warm.

Publication date1934Pages248 (first edition) / 272 (1990 paperback)(1990 paperback)PZ3.H87313 Way PS3515.U274Preceded by(1932)The Ways of White Folks is a collection of short stories by, published in 1934. Hughes wrote the book during a year he spent living in. The collection, 'marked by pessimism about race relations, as well as a realism or, contextually: humorous racism,' is among his best known works.

Langston Hughes Poems Pdf

Dopdf full version with crack. Like (1899) and (1938), it is an example of a.The collection consists of 14 short stories. Contents.' Cora Unashamed' David Herbert Donald called 'Cora Unashamed' — one of the stories in The Ways of White Folks — 'a brilliantly realized portrait of an isolated black woman in a small Middle Western town, who stoically survives her own sorrows but in the end lashes out against the hypocrisy of the whites who employ her.' That story was from directed by, starring and, and released in 2000.

Cinematographer Ernest Holzman won an Award, for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Movies of the Week/Mini-Series'/Pilot for Network or Basic Broadcast TV, for his work on this film. Additional Resources. Hans Ostrom. 'Langston Hughes’s ‘The Blues I’m Playing,’' in a Reference Guide to Short Fiction, ed. Thomas Riggs. James Press, 1999, 770-771. Hans Ostrom.

“Teaching The Ways of White Folks,” in Teaching the Harlem Renaissance, ed. Michael Soto. New York: Peter Lang, 2008, Part II, Chapter 13, 137-144. Hans Ostrom. Langston Hughes: A Study of the Short Fiction. New York: Twayne, 1993.References.