“he stayed home from his family reunion on Saturday.”
Answer:
Citizens choose to be silent about a law they may find unjust because they are afraid of what could happen to them if they disobey the just and unjust laws.
According to King, unjust laws are not moral with the current law, as an unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. He also says that the unjust law is not a law at all and that the unjust segregation law distorts the soul and damages the personality. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority.
King also states that he will invite all the citizens to disobey the segregation laws because they are morally wrong.
Answer:
The tone of the poem mellowed down somewhat to show the hope that the individual carried with him to America. The phrases "dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true", are used to describe this hope.
The images "dark Ireland’s shore", "Poland’s plain", "England’s grassy lea", "Black Africa’s strand" contribute to the shift in this stanza and are used to show what the individual left behind to build "a homeland of the free".
The heavy use of questions marks emphasizes the angry tone of the poem, and introduces and element of sarcasm to it.
Explanation:
Langston Hughes is writing a poem of someone who feels that America does not live up to what it should be. The tone is angry and resentful. He points to the people who’ve come here with hopes and dreams and they’re being let down. He’s also saying that there is an economic disparity between people. In essence, the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer, because there is not equal opportunity.
