"Don't you fall-now -- / For I'se still goin", honey, / I'se still climbin"" are the final hopes and inspiration of the mother, giving the advice to be strong (line 17-19). ... Despite the description of the stairs and the painful climb of the mother, Hughes leaves the reader with optimism and hope conveying that goals and dreams are possible. ... It also leaves a biblical resolve of salvation to those who reach the top. ...
She is the only main character that doesn't fall victim to false identification or role-playing. When the other characters become swept up in lies and fantasy, Annie remains level-headed and makes it clear that she sees beyond the disillusionment the other characters are falling for. ... While the film projects the message that to be truly happy Sarah Jane should have accepted the love of her mother and her black culture, it conveniently leaves out the asterisk explaining that she should have also accepted her place as a lesser black woman. ...
The voice that testified against captors and bore witness to the urge to be free evolved into a voice that testified against bigotry and bore witness to the urge to be equal Although Gates talks about the "black voice" throughout his essay, he leaves the question open as to exactly what the black voice is. ... The voice that the book speaks with, or for, can define the genre that the book can fall into. ...
Toni Morrison's Sula chronicles the unlikely friendship of two very different women. Nel Wright represents the archetypal mother and wife, a conformer who never leaves her hometown. Sula refuses the bonds of marriage and children, and sets out into the world, refusing tradition's version of woman. D...
For example "Mother to Son- the mother says "So boy don't you turn back, don't set you down on the steps cause you find its kinder harder, don't you fall now-. ... The black man that is lynched in the poem could not be free in this society, and the girl he leaves behind mourns at the sight of the tree. ...
