LITERATURE QUESTIONS
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
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Having a bathroom with warm water.
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Following one’s dreams.
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Getting food on the table.
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Finding a mate.
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Detailed explanation-1: -They’re hesitant to even wonder about dreaming, and while they muse for a moment on whether they could even entertain the idea of a dream, they snap right back to the dull reality of “lukewarm water” in a shared bathroom at the poem’s end. The speaker longs for the freedom and possibility of dreams.
Detailed explanation-2: -In ‘kitchenette building’ the poet engages with themes of poverty, dreams/hopes, as well as dissatisfaction. She does not spend a great amount of time focusing on the last of these, dissatisfaction. It is something that is implied through her description of the day to day life of this speaker.
Detailed explanation-3: -Though Gwendolyn Brooks grew up in a house, she spent much of her young married life in a kitchenette. “I remember feeling bleak when I was taken to my honeymoon home, the kitchenette apartment in the Tyson on 43rd and South Park, ” she wrote in her autobiography, Report from Part One.