Author’s Note: This is a Word Choice and Context piece explaining the mood, tone, purpose, and figurative language in the story “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes.
Does your family have hardships? Have you ever wanted to just give up on something but decided not to? These are all things involved with the story “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes. This piece shows great perseverance and integrity throughout. The mother is explaining to her son that her life hasn’t always been great but she is still alive and things are getting better. She shows this by saying “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.” This is a metaphor beautifully used by Langston Hughes to show us that her life hasn’t always been elegant.
Even though, this poem shows us great perseverance, it also makes you think about your life versus your life. As you are reading this poem it makes you feel sympathetic for the mother and it makes you happy that your life isn’t as bad as hers. You never know what will happen in your life but then in the end it tells you that she never gave up and she is still “going and climbing”. This is called the mood, the mood is very similar to the tone but tone is how the author feels and mood is how the reader feels. For example the tone of this story would be distressed and withered. In my mind the author was feeling sad and distressed when writing this piece.
In conclusion, this piece has a good meaning to persevere but is a gloomy story. In this story the mood and tone are very important. They help us understand the writer better because a writer doesn’t just write something like this without some relation. Langston Hughes must have had a relationship to something like this. But Langston Hughes gave us a great message here. His message was never give up and I agree with him. When things get rough just keep going!
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