According to "the negro artist and the racial mountain," what does jazz do?
a- gives african american artists some freedom
b- accurately depict the african american experience
c- forge a bond between whites and blacks
d-provide relief from the depression

The correct answer is option B "accurately depict the African American experience". Langston Hughes the author of "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain", is considered a writer that introduced jazz in much of his poetry. In Hughes own words, he wrote so many jazz poems because "jazz to me is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America" (1512).

B. Accurately depict the African American experience

Explanation:

In his short essay The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain, Langston Hughes promotes the belief that African-American art has its distinctiveness and therefore, Negros should embrace it and be proud of who they are and where they come from, instead of copying the white culture and its characteristics, an action that he harshly criticized. In this distinctiveness that Hughes mentions, jazz is one of them, as it accurately describes the African American experience fill with revolts, joy, work, smile and city life, as he wrote:

But jazz to me is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America; the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul--the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.

  the conflict is the challenge the main character need to solve to achieve their goals, is the major literary element because creates challenges in the story by addin uncertainty to if the goal would be achieved. in the story could be more than a single conflict, in fact, most of the stories have a diversity of them. the resolution creates a closure that may or may not be the end of the story.

  the basic types of conflict have been classified as "person againsta nature", "person against person" and "persona against self". nevertheless the basic types, some authors think that it could be more than only three types, for instance:

  i´m gonna give you a little summary about the three basic types that i think are the one importants for the question

  the confict involves stories where characters are against each other, is an external conflict, as in a gun fight or a robbery or it could be more subtle between the desires of the characters as in a love story. this type of conflict is very common in traditional literature, fairy tales and myths.

  is an external conflict between the character and an animal or a force of nature, like a tornado,a storm or even a rain. a great example of this is ernest hemingway´s "the old man and the sea"   in which the main character struggle with a marlin when he was fishing.

  in this case the conflict is internal, the character must overcome her or his own nature or make a choice between two paths.

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