The two readings, “ One Way Ticket,” by Langston Hughes and “ Grave Effects of The Great Migration,” by NBC News have the same topic, The Great Migration , but express it in different ways. The Great Migration was the movement of about six million African American, after slavery. They moved from the South of the U.S, were they had no freedom, to the Northern United States, were they still lived in crowded neighborhoods and got paid little but had more freedom. NBC News presents the topic on a more informational perspective. While Hughes gives more of a emotional perspective.
In the poem, Langston Hughes, uses repetition in the last three lines of the fourth stanza. In the stanza, it repeats, “ Gone up North, Gone out West, Gone!”. The repetition of the word, gone, tell the readers that he wanted to move from the South up North. NBC News provides us with information relating to how the North is better, where they have a place to live and a job to attend to, but they also bring bad news, that African-Americans have a higher chance of a shorter lifespan in the North. For example, the article reads “ The study found that if an African-American man lived to age 65 the chances that he would make it to age 70 if he remained in the South were 82.5 percent; if he migrated to the North the chance of surviving to age 70 dropped to 75
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In “One Way Ticket”, Hughes expresses, “Who lynch and run,”. Lynching is the action of killing somebody, therefore this line expresses that people wanted to hurt them because African Americans were different. Isabel Wilkerson says, “ Such circumstances only gave them another reason to find ways to cope…,”. Cope meaning that they had more difficulties than before. One of those difficulties was being underpaid for their job. Although, in the South African Americans had little freedom, there were still challenges to be faced with in the