Read this passage from the poem “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes. Keeping in mind the figurative meaning of the staircase, wha
t is the mother telling her son? 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.
The mother is telling her son to persevere and keep going, like she did. "So, boy, don't you turn back." shows how she encourages him to move forward, and "For I'se still goin', honey, I'se still climbin" shows how she wants him to follow in her footsteps, because she is persevering.
Fun Fact:
My class also did this at online school last week.
While his proposed nationalistic church did not materialize because of the Philippine-American war in 1899, “The True Decalogue” laid the foundation for the establishment of the Philippine Independent Church, or Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI), also known as Aglipayan Church.
