The Big Sea

Langston Hughes' autobiography, The Big Sea is a book that seems to be getting interesting the more you read it and makes me take back some earlier statements I said about Langston Hughes' sexuality and lifestyle. It would be very exciting to just be able to go to Europe and imagine yourself in a place like France where there is so much art, literature, and cultural to absorb. I have met some French people before and at first sight they appear to have homosexual tendencies but aren't, that is just the way they act. Hughes' is being educated further after high school by going to these places because they give him the background information and creative inspiration for some of his great literary works that he later creates. A dream of mine is to visit Europe and in a few years I plan on doing so. Unlike Hughes I have responsibilities that don't enable me to just leave on the next flight to France. Langston Hughes is an adventurer that should be greatly admired because he takes life by the horns and experiences things that some of us can only dream of. He lives his life in the way I pattern mine by traveling and seeing this beautiful world and experiencing some of the things it has to offer. He doesn't let his financial limitations be his downfall and he doesn't rely on a father that is going to offer "I told you so" in exchange for money. He is to be admired because he is his own man. This book is something else it started off very slow but it is interesting in that it offers you insight into Hughes' life and the information to understand why he writes the way he writes and why he chooses the subjects that he chooses.