Structure

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Beginning

The short story "One Friday Morning" by Langston Hughes begins in medias res by suggesting that an important event is going to take place: “The thrilling news did not come directly to Nancy Lee, but it came in little indirections that finally added themselves up to one tremen…

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Middle

In the rising action, we learn that Nancy Lee's parents have moved from the South to the North (p. 2, l. 1). We also learn that Nancy Lee is African American, but that she does not feel discriminated against: “Nancy Lee sometimes forgot she was colored herself.” (p. 2, l. 8). This is a foreshadowing element for Nancy Lee losing the scholarship because she is African American and thus experiencing open discrimination for the first time.

We also learn that Nancy Lee is proud to be an American but was also taught to appreciate African culture …

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Ending

In the falling action, Miss O’Shay reveals her own experience with being discriminated against as a woman of Irish origin and makes a passionate speech about fighting to make the American Dream a reality:

‘(…) we believed in the American dream, and in our power to make that dream come true. Difficulties, yes. Mou…