Keep living and move on

                             

Authors Note: this piece of writing was written to meet my goal of getting a 9 in text analysis, and to break down the quote “Life for me aint been no crystal stair”

            "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes is about a mother telling her son about troubles she had in her life. She is also telling her son that life can be hard but don’t turn back and give up. She wants him to go out his best foot and keep moving forward and continue to climb the stairs of life. No matter how hard it gets, she tells her son she is still climbing.

First of all, using this quote, Hughes creates a tone of motivation and perseverance. The meaning of the quote is encouragement, and telling the kid to keep going in life and don’t give up if life gets tough. The mother explains to her son the difficulties she faced and is still facing.

Secondly, Langston Hughes uses words like, “Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, and splinters, and boards torn up, and places with no carpet on the floor --Bare.” He describes this poor staircase as the mothers of life. I believe that this quote is perfect for representing life.

 I can relate this quote in my everyday life. Life has never been perfect for me. There is always a time when something that you do not expect jumps up and gets in your way of things. Like the mother’s life, my life can be going smoothly and sometimes, you have to fight to get to where you want to be; the places that are all torn up and the places with no carpet on your grand crystal staircase.

Finally I can relate this quote to the book Zach’s Lie. His life was going smoothly with its occasional tiny annoyances. Then one night three men broke into their house and held them hostage in their own house. Zach did not expect this but just like the mother in “Mother to Son”, Zach kept climbing the staircase of life.

Overall, I learned from the quote “life aint no crystal stair,” that whatever life throws your way, whatever crack are in your staircase of life to just keep going. Jump over the cracks dodge the bad things and keep climbing. This piece has taught me to never give up no matter how hard life gets.