Most recent public comments by Ahmad Sesay https://nowcomment.com/users/78589 https://nowcomment.com/documents/201219?scroll_to=1889977 https://nowcomment.com/documents/201219?scroll_to=1889977 In this paragraph, Hughes uses Jessie's situation with her parents to show how many parents worry more about a child performance in math, science, or literature then in other creative forms like the arts. Hughes shows how our society values those three subjects more and often looks down on those who excel in subjects like cooking or the arts refusing to see the jobs for how important they are. he is trying to show that there is more to a person than just those few subjects. Tue, 19 May 2020 21:22:58 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/201219?scroll_to=1889916 https://nowcomment.com/documents/201219?scroll_to=1889916 Hughes is most likely showing how some parents crack under the pressures that come with maintaining a family and prefer to try and forget about their situation instead of trying to better it. Cora's father is in a way a foil to Cora in that she uses the majority of her time and money to help her siblings while her father uses his money for himself. Hughes also shows in this line how that type of parenting or lack there of causes children to resentment their parents. Tue, 19 May 2020 20:07:15 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/201219?scroll_to=1889908 https://nowcomment.com/documents/201219?scroll_to=1889908 In this line Hughes is not only using this simile to show how society treated African American like they were animals but how even today people who work in the service industry are sometimes forced to serve people who treat them in a similar manner. Both groups of people do this under the basis that it is the persons job to do this and it what they are getting payed for. Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:27:09 -0400