Reflect:
Hughes is a collection of poems that are about the author being black and the way people treated him. I really liked the poems because he didn't hold back with how he felt and he was funny too. I really liked a part of his poem Crossed when he said he didn't know where he would die since he was neither black nor white. Shocking Story is about the killing of a teenage boy in the south that is shocking because the two men who killed him weren't punished for the murder. It is a sad story, yes, but I don't find it very shocking. As mentioned in class, this kind of thing happened in the south around that time, everyday. I feel like there were much worse things done to black people for even more ridiculous reasons than taunting a white girl. I don't think what the men did was right and I don't think the boy deserved what happened to him but I feel that this story is one of the least shocking. I'm sure we could dig something up from history that is much, much worse than this. You also have to remember that the members of the KKK never got in trouble for hanging blacks in the trees. Is that considered shocking?
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