The poem “mother“Mother to son”Son” by Langston Hughes reveals something important about American culture during the 19th century. The poem describes the difficulties that black people (African American)Americans) had to go through because of racism that whilewhite people don’t have to face. Also, the poem talks about how they can overcome these problems.

The speakernarrator of the poem is talkingspeaking to her son about what she has to gogone through her whole life. She gives him advice about how to improve his life in a racist society using metaphors like climbing a set of stairs. She talks about how life hasn’t been noa crystal stair for her , meaning that white people enjoy aan easy and smooth climb, where for whilewhereas black people they have to struggle to get to where they want to be. evenEven today, that is true because black people are treated badly where everwherever they go and they doentdon't have it easy in life. They always have to take the long and tough road, while whitwhite people take the easy and smooth road.