Question

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1. The story "Why, You Reckon?" ends with a question. The question is, "What do you suppose is the matter with rich white folks? Why you recon they ain't happy?" (258). What answer does the story propose? Support your answer with at least one detail from the story.

2. The narrator of "Why, You Reckon?" commits a crime. Do you think Langston Hughes, the author of the story, blames the narrator or society for the crime? Does the narrator commit the crime out of selfishness or desperation? Provide an example from the story to support your reasoning.

Answer 1

1. The blacks believe they have everything handed to them and they never have to lift a finger for anything’s because they are well educated and well dressed, example would be that the narrator mugs a white man and to get the other man to help me lies and says that the white men don’t care about uneducated poor black men.

2. No because the man was just doing it because he was starving and needed food before he died so he was willing to do anything. At the end he ended up not even getting any money for food because he was tricked and lied too. Most likely he blames the narrator because he lies to him and tricks him. The narrator does it out of selfishness because he has learned his way around things because of how long he’s been on the streets.