Mother To Son 'And Thank You Ma' Am, By Langston Hughes

Everybody’s got their own experiences; everybody’s got their own story. In a poem entitled “Mother to Son” and a short story entitled “Thank you Ma’am “ which is both by Langston Hughes, it it illustrated to the readers that a person’s past can greatly influence the person’s future. The experiences in the past of both Mrs. Jones and the speaker in the poem had given to them that all-too-important insight and allowed them to share the knowledge to the young people. In the poem “Mother to Son,” the speaker is telling the boy her story and is warning him about how hard life would be when he will make the same mistakes: “So boy, don’t you turn back… ‘cause you find it’s kinder hard.” Although her past was not a “crystal stair” she still goes