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Theme For English B By Langston Hughes

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A bildungsroman is typically a novel. It tells the story of a youth coming-of-age, gaining maturity, and growing up. Can a bildungsroman be a poem? Can a youth come of age in just a few stanzas? When considering all the necessary parts and pieces that create a bildungsroman, especially the journey the protagonist must undertake, a poem is simply not long enough. Certainly “Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes is not.

“Theme for English B” shows many characteristics of Bildungsroman. We all believe that a certain part of Bildungsroman is the main key. Without this key the story is not classified as a bildungsroman. My Main key, there has to be a journey, without a journey there's simply no story. But this story does have characteristics
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