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Mother to Son

By: Elias Dorsey

In the poem Mother to Son by Langston Hughes, a mother is telling her son not to give up and to persevere during these hard times. He uses metaphors and symbolism in this poem with examples such as life ain’t no crystal stair. She says this to her son because she wants to remind him that anything is possible and she doesn’t want him to give up. Because she’s been through a lot and she knows that if you take the road less traveled by, it pays off in the end. Even though it’s the harder path down the road. When you get to the end it’ll pay off in the long run. Also that it will be worth it going into the dark. There’s always light at the end of the tunnel. I think the mood that the author was trying to set was a hopeful kind of mood. My dad always told me to not complain, because there is always someone out there in the world who has it way worse than I do. Things could be worse, and things will get better.