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Not Without Laughter
by Langston Hughes
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Strange reading this at the same time as I'm reading How to Be an Antiracist.
While some of the themes may be dated, they aren't as dated as they should be almost a century later. It was interesting to read how different people dealt with the hand they were given (being black) and how white society treated black people.
Leaving the sociology behind, this is a well written story that feels autobiographical and what I kept finding myself thinking, was that he writes lyrically and it's easy to see how he became known as a poet. There is a lot of it in the way he paints a scene.
While some of the themes may be dated, they aren't as dated as they should be almost a century later. It was interesting to read how different people dealt with the hand they were given (being black) and how white society treated black people.
Leaving the sociology behind, this is a well written story that feels autobiographical and what I kept finding myself thinking, was that he writes lyrically and it's easy to see how he became known as a poet. There is a lot of it in the way he paints a scene.