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.
B, you need to give the reader basically a reason to read it so you give the hook and the topic of the sentence so basically what the story is going to be about.
The word harrow in this passage means that the writer could narrate a story so hunting that will agonize your soul. A story so twisted that even the lightest words will sound hunting to the reader. The word harrow up, in this case, can be a synonym of <u>torment.</u>
