“Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.” (Hughes). This is the description of life to a black person in the early 1900’s. Hughes writes the poem “Mother to Son” in the perspective of his single mother. He writes about how life was hard with the racism and segregation from the white people. He describes this pain as the staircase having “Tacks in it, and splinters, and boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor.” (Hughes). In the poem he refers to the “Crystal staircase,” most likely standing for the easy non-caring life with no difficulties otherwise known as a white person’s life. The tone of which the "mother" is speaking is in a calm but in firm tonne. When Hughes wrote this poem he was probably cam because the words and the way it the words flow are in a calm manner.
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