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Of The Coming of John


Du Bois makes his cleverness show by slight suggestions of certain values and the issues disturbing to Negros living in America. W.E.B. Du Bois poses the following outlook while making John the center object of reference to pertaining issues facing black folks in America:

"He grew slowly to feel almost for the first time the Veil that lay between him and the white world; he first noticed now the oppression that had not seemed oppression before, differences that erstwhile seemed natural, restraints and slights that in his boyhood days had gone unnoticed or been greeted with a laugh. He felt angry now when men did not call him "Mister," he clenched his hands at the "Jim Crow" cars, and chafed at the color-line that hemmed in him and his.

A tinge of sarcasm crept into his speech, and a vague bitterness into his life; and he sat long hours wondering and planning a way around these crooked things. Daily he found himself shrinking from the choked and narrow life of his native town. And yet he had to go back to Altamaha,-always planned to work there. Still, more and more as the day approached he hesitated with a nameless dread; and even the day after graduation he seized with eagerness the offer of the Dean to send him North with the quartette during the summer vacation, to sing for the Institute. A breath of air before the plunge, he said to himself in half apology."

The essay brings forth the shadows of despair; the ability of dreaming the best is yet to come. Du Bois does say it best in creative ways in his many collection of essays, and he presents to the reader that progress yields many successes as our ancestors showed their ability to still have pride no matter what the struggle. W.E.B. explains in his collection of essays that black folk ancestors are hard working people that demonstrate the spirit of courage and strength to reach their dreams, and are always forth coming.

There are many tales to be told of the journey of life, and W.E.B. Du Bois delivers the importance of education, family life, and better job opportunities for everyone in his essays. In the "Of the Coming of John" Du Bois entails the hope and the desire to reaching ones' dreams in a hostile environment; in addition, Du Bois offers a different perspective than most of his
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