Devastation In Our Generation One generation can learn many things from another. For instance, they can learn to persevere, have faith. And be generous. Each generation goes through a struggle. However, we must learn how to persevere. Luckily we have higher generations to teach us how. In the poem, “Mother to Son” it states “And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor…” The older generation (or mother) is saying that life is like a staircase, but the staircase will have problems that throw you off. However, later on in the poem, it says to keep persevering, keep walking through the stairs, or keep going through life even if you’re at the lowest point of your life. I believe that the message of perseverance in …show more content…
In the memoir “An Invisible Thread” a boy is losing faith, though a kind woman teaches him he’s worth this world and he should remain to have faith. I believe “An Invisible Thread” has a great way to describe faith in generations, due to the reason the older generation takes care of the younger one and teaches him great life lessons. Not only does the story have a great way to describe faith, later on, the same boy continues to have faith and now has a great job, and family. One day, I had to sing for this show thing, but I lost confidence and completely embarrassed myself so much I didn’t even perform that night. I lost the faith I had in me, but my parents brought me up. This describes faith because if I had just been confident and had faith in myself, I would have had bragging rights to my friends. This is connected to faith because I was losing faith when I was thinking about all the harsh things people would maybe say to me if I did what I was supposed to. I was contemplating about the show so much that I just didn’t do it, I just sat in the crowd and everyone noticed me there. They were confused, though I didn’t care that they were, I just knew I didn’t want to maybe be made fun of. In summation, we all lose faith sometimes. However, all generations should never have it …show more content…
“A Simple Act” is about lady who is being generous to a kid who grows up in poverty. I really enjoy this example because it shows that the older generation (lady) who makes meals and teaches the younger generation how to do things. Also, the boy ends up being quite generous to others all due to the fact that the lady was a role model to him. Whenever I am driving and see a homeless man, I feel quite bad. I want to be generous, though I really can’t cause I’m just a kid. I don’t have money! A lot of my friends also feel like this, and honestly, the feeling is the worst. This shows some of this generation does care about generosity. Maybe the wanting to help others was manipulated by older generations doings. To wrap up, generosity should always remain in this world, though it won’t if we don’t try our best to teach it to younger
Another fitting quote from the text is something the mother says at the end of the poem, ¨So boy, don’t you turn back. [...] Don’t you fall now For I’se still goin’, honey, I’se still climbin’, And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair¨ (Hughes lines 14-20) This shows the Mother's purpose in telling this story. The mother says to the son, using her stair metaphor, to keep persevering through life, as she had.
“So boy, don't you turn back./Don't you set down on the steps/'Cause you finds it's kinder hard./Don't you fall now --/For I'se still goin', honey,/I'se still climbin',/And life for me ain't been no crystal stair” (Line 14-20 Norton, 2028), is the loudest part of the poem. It speaks volumes on how she truly viewed her struggles. . The mother states “ I’se been a-climbin’ on” (Hughes & Rampersad Line 9, 60), which illustrates her dedication to becoming better. She lets it be known that her struggle is yet to be over, but she does not care how hard it will be, she is going to make it. She details the pain she endured: “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair/
The world has experienced many changes in past generations, to the present. One of the very most important changes in life had to be the changes of children. Historians have worked a great deal on children’s lives in the past. “While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.”- Author Unknown
The author of “Mother to Son”, Langston Hughes, displays the attitude of hopefulness in the poem to show that life will not be easy for the son, but he should never give up because the mother did not. The author uses literary devices like figurative language, imagery, and diction. By using these literary devices, Hughes creates a sympathetic mood in the poem in order to emotionally draw in the reader.
In life, empty, forsaken, lonely people in dire need of help put their faith toward God or a significant individual. A current example includes the 10 year old boy released by his kidnapper after singing a gospel song for hours. In Mark Twain’s The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Joan Arc, a teenage French military commander shows faith whenever she goes to battle or is about to face death. Eventually she gets captured and even though she will die she continues to keep her faith in God. By showing the effects of faith on Joan of Arc and her comrades, Mark Twain illustrates his belief that the value of an intense personal faith is important in everyone’s life.
These sets of lines express the frustrations of a mother who worked through a hard time, and is telling her son her story. She is telling her son this is the adversity she when through to become who she is today in spirit. ...
The mother describes all the different obstacles that can stand in the way along the path of life, but tells her son to continue to climb. “Mother to Son” has been referenced in speeches by Martin Luther King Jr. and President Barack Obama as pieces of human inspiration to continue moving forward even during the tough times (Miller, 425). Langston’s poem represents the relationship between a mother and her child to try to be a support system during difficult times to keep them fighting for more in their life. King and Obama used this same poem to speak to human nature and encourage the movement past difficult events in society (Miller, 425). Langston’s poem shows how it was relevant when it was written, but it is still relevant today since it pulls at who we are as
First, the author uses Figurative language to develop the theme by the mother uses a metaphor to describe her life and how difficult it was. It says, “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. It’s had tacks in it, And splinters. And boards were torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor—Bare.“This shows the author use Figurative language to develop the theme of You have to rise above the obstacles because life is going to throw obstacles at you and you have to try to avoid them. This shows the theme because instead of going back down the staircase where there are no problems you have to push through to get over the problem. Second, the author uses Symbol to develop the theme by using the staircase that represents life and life is hard and there will be a ton of thing that try to push us down and just try to stop us It says, “ I’ve been a-climbing’ on, And reachin’ landings, And turnin’ corners, And sometimes goin’ in the dark Where there ain’t been no light. “This shows the author used Symbol to develop the theme of You have to rise above the obstacles because the mother kept going non-stop. This is important to notice because there will be a ton of thing that try to push us down and just try to stop us. To, sum up, the author of “Mother to Son” revealed the theme through Figurative language and
staying the course. In the poem “Mother to Son” a mother tells of her persistence through life’s obstacles, encouraging her son not to give up.
should have a wide base of knowledge to draw from and add to throughout their life.
grow from a young child to a mature adult, we are taught many things such as
Form and meaning are what readers need to analyze to understand the poem that they are evaluating. In “Mother to Son”, his form of writing that is used frequently, is free verse. There is no set “form”, but he gets his point across in a very dramatic way. The poem is told by a mother who is trying to let her son know that in her life, she too has gone through many frustrations just like what her son is going through. The tone of this poem is very dramatic and tense because she illustrates the hardships that she had to go through in order to get where she is today. She explains that the hardships that she has gone through in her life have helped her become the person that she has come to be. Instead of Hughes being ironic, like he does in some of his poems, he is giving the reader true background on the mother’s life. By introducing the background, this helps get his point across to the reader in a very effective way. In this poem there are many key words which help portray the struggles that the mother is trying to express to her son. The poem is conveyed in a very “down to earth” manner. An example of this is, “Life for me ain’t been a crystal stair (462).” This quote shows the reader that the mom is trying to teach the son a lesson with out sugar coating it. She wants her son to know that throughout her life has had many obstacles to overcome, and that he too is going to have to get through his own obstacles no matter how frustrating it is. Her tone throughout the poem is stern telling the boy, “So boy, don’t turn your back (462).” The poems tone almost makes the reader believe that the mother is talking to them, almost as if I am being taught a valuable lesson.
The first valuable lesson is not to give kids everything they want. “And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.” (Line 12 King James Parable of the Prodigal Son). His father gave him his portion of the goods for when he passes away and he blew them.
The first stanza begins by stating, The children go forward . They are leaving their mothers behind, going to a place inaccessible to them. At the moment the children are on their way to school, but as they progress, they will begin to move past the achievements of their parents. Instead of becoming resentful, the mothers do all they can to ensure this progress continues. All morning the mothers have labored . They exert themselves strenuously for the benefit of their children. They put forth much time and energy at manual labor. The mothers labored in giving birth to their children, and are laboring to raise them to adulthood. They sacrifice themselves so that their children may have a future better than their own.
The generation that I was born into can sometimes be easily misunderstood by those in earlier generations. The individuals in my generation get thrown many different labels such as those that Rosie Evans (n.d.) listed in her article, “Millennials, Generation Y, the Lost Generation, boomerang kids, the Peter Pan generation…” and more. This can impact us as a whole because some will begin to live by the labels, in some cases that can be negative but in others it may be beneficial. Many people in this generation believe that they can’t reach their full potential due to labels and prejudgment, while there are others believe nothing can hold them back. When we get labeled all together that is also what may drive some to try to stand out from the