Crystal Stair

Drew Barth

3/14/12

Crystal Stairs

Authors Note: I am doing a writing piece to show how this quote means so much to a poem and the other fugitive language. My life ain’t been no crystal stair. Poem is called Mother to son by Langston Hughes.

           
           This quote means that the boy’s mother is telling him that she hasn’t had a perfect life like other people and he has to deal with it. She has been working her but off and her boy doesn’t even see that but she wants him to know what he does for him. The grammar in this story makes the tone and the mode change throughout the book so you get a view of how the mother is talking to her son. The author makes it seem that the mother is exhausted from the kid and wants him to know what she does and he should care about it.