mother to son

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…showed last 75 words of 640 total…is shared by all of them as a whole. Hughes voices this message through the mother in his poem to pass this message along to the rest of the black community. He provides them with words of encouragement and hope in light of their struggles. Hughes use of metaphors, color imagery, and dialect effectively express the idea that life contains many hardships, yet one must not be disheartened by them and instead, triumph over them.