Comparing and Contrasting the background, writing styles, and themes of the authors Langston Hughes and Toni Morrison.

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Comparing and Contrasting the background, writing styles, and themes of the authors Langston Hughes and Toni Morrison.
Reflective Compare and Contrast.
The identification of similarities as well as dissimilarities of the two authors’ background, themes, and writing styles.
Present each author’s biographical information, their writing styles and themes that they use in their literature works. Carry on concentrating on the major comparisons and then the minor ones and later their notable differences, while incorporating the dissimilarities to the reader.
I Introduction to the argument
II Make a summery of the two authors’ background, themes and writing styles.
III Identify and put in the similarities between these two authors.
IV Note and write the differences.
V. Conclusion that contains incorporation of the two.
I. Introduction to the argument
a. Elaborate about the Hughes literature versus Morrison writing.
b. Address the minor controversies that exist between the works of the two authors.
II Make summaries of the two authors
Summarize on the background, themes and writing styles of Hughes.
Summarize on the background, themes and writing styles of Morrison
III Evaluate similarities
Themes:
Cultural heritage
Racism
Change
Writing styles
Symbolism
Metaphors and Similes
Images and Language
IV Compare diversities
Location
Status
V. Conclusion
b. incorporation of both comparisons and dissimilarities as well as personal opinion.
HUGHES AND MORRISON
Langston Hughes and Toni Morrison are renowned writers that have left a mark in the world of creative writing (Silver & Harvey, 12). Hughes was an American novelist, poet, social activist, playwright as well as columnist, and was popularly known for his best work in times of Harlem Renaissance. On the other hand, Morrison is an American editor, novelist as well as professor. The writing works of the two bear some comparison as well as contrast in consideration of themes, writing styles and background. A clear picture is shed through evaluation of the said aspects of writing that enables to understand the inspirations behind it.
Background
The beginning of life for Hughes was not a smooth road, as he experienced the pain of his parents’ divorce at a tender age. He was born on the first day of February year one thousand nine hundred and two, in Joplin Missouri. His father relocated for Mexico and he was taken to live with his grandmother until the age of thirteen years. His youth represented poverty due to the separation of his parents. Hughes lived a nomadic kind of life as he kept on moving from his mother to his father and later to New York in nineteen twenty one. His father had sent him some money that he used to enroll to Columbia University and started his writing. He wrote and published his first verse in the magazine called, ‘The Crisis’. It was when Hughes lived in Lincoln, Illinois that he started writing poetry in depth. Hughes had to perform odd jobs even after his graduation where he worked as bus boy, cook and launderer. He also travelled in Europe and Africa while working as a seaman. In the year nineteen twenty four, he moved to Washington D.C and published his first book of poetry and the release of his first novel, ‘without laughter’, became a success as he was awarded the Harmon gold medal intended for literature. Hughes used his talent of poetry, plays, novels as well as essays to encourage his people, raise concerns regarding social, and race justice.
Writing styles
Even though Hughes was known in his contribution and participation in other genres, he was mainly praised as a poet. In his poetic career, he sought to capture the experiences, voices, emotions as well as spirit of the African American that lived in his times. He was determined to reflect in his poetry the daily lives of the working class culture. The themes and topics that are evident in his writings are racism, lynchings, prostitution, and teenage pregnancy as well. In the writing styles, he could use vernacular in the verses, which drew a great deal upon the rhythms, cadences of blues, jazz and gospel songs (Hughes, Hubbard, Rampersad & Sanders, 20). Amongst the poems that are mostly anthologized is “the Negro Speaks of Rivers” that is found in his first collection called “the weary blues”. More so, “Fine Clothes to the Jews” illustrated the daily struggle that the African Americans living in Harlem who left the overt domination from the Deep South in pursuit of American dream and to their disappointment found their dreams set aside or denied indefinitely. He continues with voicing out the struggle in a series of poems in different words but stating the same information so that it may stick to the minds of the readers. The literacy reputation of Hughes was not only derived from his poetic expertise, but also as a prose writer. Regardless of this fact, Hughes talked about the same themes that he had experience about and pointed at issues that needed part or total ...