Despite the varieties of writing techniques employed, the author approves the spirit of the mother and conveys the belief of keep fighting. The mother’s climbing process means that she insists upon living and fighting against the unfair society on her rough road. The author compares the lives of people to stairs. However, Hughes conveys the hope and resistance from the mother’s words, indicating that the mother is “still climbing”. The “crystal stairs” represents that the powerful white people have the privilege to live a shining and smooth life, which makes a sharp contrast with the mother’s dark and hard life. The black woman reaches her destination directly because there are “turning corners”, which symbolizes the opportunities and challenges on her way. Words “no light” and “dark” represent no hope. The author uses “splinters and boards torn up and places with no carpet on the floor” to depict the racism towards black people in the last century. In the poem Mother to Son, Hughes uses metaphors to show the difficulties facing a mother and the persistence she upholds to fight against the unfair life. They both use metaphors to emphasize the challenges and hope their effort would overcome the difficulties. Poems Mother to Son and The Rose That Grew from Concrete will show you how to rise above the oppression and challenges in similar ways. And you keep conquering the problems one by one. Imagine that your life starts getting harder and harder. Mother to Son & The Rose That Grew from Concrete
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