Mother To Son, By Langston Hughes

The unidentified mother in the poem may be suggestive of the African American women motivating their sons to fight for prosperity. This poem is compose in the shape of a considerable monologue in black dialect.  The idiomatic style of the tongue is cited in the context of the bravery, tolerance and sense of duty of the African American race. The tongue also gives a charged conversational component to the poem. The subject of the poem is persistence and determination.

Life is Fine, by Langston Hughes, is a six stanza poem with a rhyming pattern of ABCB. Langston is discussing his attempts at suicide, and his regrets towards them. The poem’s message is that, while you may “holler” and maybe even “cry”, you should not give up, because life is something worth living. Langston uses an extended metaphor to show how he felt after trying to commit suicide twice: “Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry- I’ll be dogged sweat baby, If you gonna see me die”. This extended metaphor can be interpreted to mean that he doesn’t want to die anymore, and that it would take a lot more pain, whether it is physical, mental, or emotional pain.

Lorraine Hansberry, the author of Raisin in the Sun, simulates the title of her play from the famous line in the poem “Harlem” by Langston Hughes, in which the poet asks, “What happens to a dream deferred?” A dream deferred is a vision that someone has, but due to certain circumstances, their fantasy life is either ignored or put on hold. For the Younger family, their dream of living as an ordinary middle-class black family and being accepted by the whites was deferred at one point. At the time the story took place, the blacks in the Chicago area still faced racism just like the south. The dream of the Younger family was very essential to each of them. They were willing to do literally anything to make their dreams come true.

Have you ever help someone that try to do you wrong? ¨Thank You, M'am.¨ by Langston Hughes is about a woman that helps out a young man. ¨ A Victim Treats His Mugger Right¨ by Michael Garofalo is about a man that helps the guy that try to steal from him. Julio Diaz and Mrs. Jones both help this young boys in many ways when they try to do something bad to them.Mrs. Jones and Julio Diaz have many things in common.

In the poem, Mother to Son, by Langston Hughes, the author highlights counsels a mother to her son, to be persistent, not to let discouraged by obstacles that arise in life, posing herself example, “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair…But all the time I’se been a-climin’ on.”, the image of a mother lovingly, wisely talking to her son about life.The language used by the mother shows that she was not an educated person and words such as “Tacks”, “splinters”, “boards torn up” suggests that life was not so easy for this woman. Obstacles of life are often very sharp, the challenges are difficult and painful, like a ladder with all kinds of defects, which is very difficult to be ascent. The way this mother describes her journey through this life, make the reader to understand that she is a black woman who had faced a lot of obstacles in her quest to move forward in life from the whites, “And sometimes goin’ in the dark, Where there ain’t been no light. So, boy, don’t you turn back.”

Reporter: Hi Mr Hughes, so I’ve learnt that recently one of your poems , “Mother To Son is published”. Congratulations, but besides from the blissful joy of happiness, can you share with us your feelings right now? Are we happy? Proud?

In the poem “50-50” by Langston Hughes, the theme is about a lonely woman seeking love. She might be a young woman who left her family in the South and moved North during the Great Migration for better opportunities, and that might be the reason why she feels she is all alone in this world. Or, she might be a widow or someone who has lost a partner, or boyfriend. She feels she is all alone because she has no man in her life.

Life's Construction, Detour Ahead: An Explication of "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes Life, like beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Much like beauty, life requires constant maintenance; construction. According to some life is a "beautiful wondrous adventure". Unfortunately for oppressed people life is an utterly cruel joke.

In the story Thank You, M’am by Langston Hughes Mrs.Jones treated Roger very generously because she didn't put him in jail, she gave him $10, and she gave him some hot cocoa and ham. In paragraph 27 and 28 the author writes, “You gonna take me to jail?” Asked the boy, bending over the sink. “Not with that face, I could not take your nowhere.” This quote supports the claim because not taking him to jail, this means she gave him a chance. This means she generous, but if she did take to jail this means she does not give anyone another chance most likely. Another piece of evidence is on paragraph 42 the author writes, “ She heated up some Lima beans and ham she had in the icebox, made some cocoa, and set the table. The women did not ask the boy

In the novel, “Not without Laughter,” Langston Hughes uses the narrator's voice and the thoughts and dialogue of the character Sandy to explore social stratification. Specifically, the class relationships in American society through Sandy's experiences with the 3 sisters of the novel: Annjee, Tempy and Harriett. The sensibilities, style and intuitive feel of these 3 characters communicates to the reader that each one represents a different means of living, reflective of three prominent social strata in American society: the working-class, the petit-bourgeois middle class and the declassed.

Langston Hughes was an immensely influential African American writer, novelist, and social activist before, after, and during the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes' primary themes of his works included African-American life, struggles, and experiences. Over the course of his literary career, he wrote about 384 poems. Hughes’ emotional and realistic poem Mother to Son, is one of my favorites. Langston Hughes created this poem based on personal experience and the general struggle for African Americans.

In the poem “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes, the mother tells her son that her “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.” What she means is that her life has never been perfect and that she has been to different places that are not the best like with no carpet or with splinters. In the painting, the mother has nothing and she is sitting on the bare floor. All that she has in the painting is the big ball of yarn and her son. Also, it kind of like she wants the little boy to catch the ball or like she is giving it to him.

Langston Hughes’s “Let America Be America Again” is a poem that could be endlessly applied to where America stands today. This poem illustrates the morals, ideas, and visions set forth by those who found this country and how America has begun straying from those principles. The poem expresses that America is made up of all walks of people and that no man should be crushed by those above him, but rather be given the same opportunity as those above him. Hughes desire to make America great again can be shared in some way or another by most Americans making this poem everlasting. “Let America Be America Again” has the personalization, the language, the connection shared by every American, and the rhyme to allow readers of every race, gender, or religious belief to be brought together as not only people but as Americans.

The imagery Langston Hughes use in his poem “I, Too” is powerful, especially when he says, “they send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes.” Through this line you can clearly see the narrator of this poem sitting alone by himself in the kitchen and eating alone. Instead of being angry, he “laugh, and eat well and grow strong” because he has hope in future that one day he will have the same rights as others and no longer has to hide his identity. The term “they’ll see how beautiful I am” indicates that one day those who shun him away based on his identity will finally realize that he is also an American who is a beautiful human being. The imagery especially “kitchen” is significant in this poem because it symbolizes segregation and discrimination.

The story “Thank you M’am” was written by Langston Hughes. Thank You M’am is about a boy that tried to snatch Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones’s pocket book. The boy Just simply wanted some blue suede shoes. The reason behind “tried” was that her pocket book was so heavy the boy couldn’t get away so Mrs. Jones got him and took him home. The reason why Mrs. Jones takes Roger(the boy) back to her house was because she felt strong empathy for him because she had mentioned that she had been bad one time too.