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A New Yorker said that Lynn Nottage has “built a career on making invisible people visible.” I have not read other works of Lynn Nottage, but this statement is true for her play SWEAT, published in 2017. Her play has given a way for factory line workers, who are considered invisible people in the play, to become visible in the eyes of the world. SWEAT is a complex play that reveals many circumstances about the life of factory line workers. It presents what factory line workers, who are generally overseen by the world, usually go through and describes their challenges to bring them in front of the world. The challenges of the factory line workers, including job insecurity and alcohol addiction, are put and emphasized in a form of a play to make these invisible people visible in the eyes of the world. The emphasis on job insecurity is placed throughout the novel, but it is highlighted specifically in Act 2 Scene 2 when Cynthia says, “They [refers to the manufacturing plant] can move the...

 Poem Annotations Mother to Son by Langston Hughes (1922) Poem pdf Source The source only gave raw pdf; it was annotated later      In the poem, Mother to Son , Langston Hughes uses word choice to develop the theme that one should not give up even in the most difficult circumstances. Hughes accomplishes this theme by speaking from the point of view of an African American mother in early the 1900s.       The author starts the poem by describing a lack of perfect life for the mother. The words "crystal stair" are chosen carefully by the author because "crystal" depicts perfection and "stair" depicts the journey of life. By denying the idea that life is not perfect for the mother, Hughes introduces the challenging life for the mother. The year, 1922, when the poem was written connects to the "crystal stair" because, at the time, only white Americans were living a good life while the other races had to face the challenges of discrimination against th...