Mother To Son Analysis

A mom is seen as a sense of leadership, whom her son can trust and someone who he can really bond with. A mom is one whom teaches her son all the lessons of life and who puts her child onto the right path. In the story of “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes, the mother gives advice to her lovely son, about how she successfully faced the challenges in life and that she wishes that her son does the same by encouraging and by sharing her own experiences.
The speaker’s message to the readers in “Mother to Son” is that life can have many obstacles and hardships and that you have to just keep trying despite the tough difficulties and challenges. The mother compares her life to a set of old stairs using the metaphor,” Life for me ain’t been no crystal

Through the voice of the mom, she tells her son that she has been”-climin’ on, reachin’ landin’s, turnin corners” and sometimes goin’ in the dark, where there ain’t been no light (9-13). What this means is that she didn’t see and was blind and didn’t see where the stairs were taking her and what direction it was going. Sometimes a person doesn’t realize where he or she is going and therefore life gets hard as you have a hard time finding the right answer. She has “but all the time” tried to change her lifestyle from one to the other, trying to find the best one that she can have, by trying to escape poverty, racism and slavery as she was an African- American back in the 1900’s. But she kept “turnin’ corners” and tried to find the best for her life and for her situation. Even though she made it through everything she tells his son “so boy, don’t you turn back” and what this means is that don’t you get scared because of the direction that life is taking you. Anyone can give up as that is usually the easiest route, however we need to have faith and learn from other’s experiences that way is not the best as persistence and determine will land you in the correct lifestyle and