Analysis of literary passage and description of the video
The poem Theme for English B is written by a black student who talks about the differences and resemblances between races, between his white teacher and him. Taking into account the fact that in 1951 racism was a major issue, this student could have written this poem in a very aggressive and denunciative way. However, here, the mood is quite calm. We don’t feel any anger or agressivity. Hughes looks like he is trying to understand what creates the differences and finaly makes us realise that we are all the same. This video represents the acceptance of differences in our society. As he says, we all eat, sleep and drink, no matter the color or ethnicity we are. Since it is a poem, the words are chosen to create a rhythm. It is almost like Langston Hughes is singing. The words like white, colored, color refer to races differences. He also uses words like part of me, part of you so peolple can understand that we complete each other. Langston Hughes is rising above the discrimination to a more comprehensive state of mind.
The poem Theme for English B is written by a black student who talks about the differences and resemblances between races, between his white teacher and him. Taking into account the fact that in 1951 racism was a major issue, this student could have written this poem in a very aggressive and denunciative way. However, here, the mood is quite calm. We don’t feel any anger or agressivity. Hughes looks like he is trying to understand what creates the differences and finaly makes us realise that we are all the same. This video represents the acceptance of differences in our society. As he says, we all eat, sleep and drink, no matter the color or ethnicity we are. Since it is a poem, the words are chosen to create a rhythm. It is almost like Langston Hughes is singing. The words like white, colored, color refer to races differences. He also uses words like part of me, part of you so peolple can understand that we complete each other. Langston Hughes is rising above the discrimination to a more comprehensive state of mind.
This video represents the acceptance of black people in the American society. The song used in this creation is a segment of African music. It is a powerful but somewhat relaxing and this is exactly how we wanted people to feel like. Langston wants to get his acceptance message trough but he wants to do it in a smooth way. As the message still is strong, we thought this kind of music was perfect. We can hear an adult and children voices. The two types of voices catch the attention of older and younger generations. As north-americans, we do not hear these musics very often and that leads us to hear someting new. Most of the images we used show black and white people together. But these are not violent or "hard to look at" pictures. They are all images that show us love and acceptance. In every photographs, we can see that people are linked by holding hands, holding the Earth, handcuffs... This complicity showa that colored people are not different from anyone else; we are, all together, representing humanity. A lot of these images were taken from Oliviero Toscani's United Colors of Bentton campaing because they really show the mood in which we wanted our video to be. We have to be open-minded and trun our back to racism.
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