Question

"Well, son, I’ll tell you:

Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.

It’s had tacks in it,

And splinters,

And boards torn up,

And places with no carpet on the floor—

Bare.

But all the time

I’se been a-climbin’ on,

And reachin’ landin’s,

And turnin’ corners,

And sometimes goin’ in the dark

Where there ain’t been no light.

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."

Write 1 - 2 sentences explaining how his mother compares the staircase to life in the poem.

Answer 1

Answer:

His mother compares life to a stair case saying that she had a rough life. like she might have been poor or had a way to keep going even when life got rough.

Explanation:

Answer 2

The mother compares the staircase to life because, she describes how it’s been really hard to fix the staircase and in life you could be going threw problems, and it could be hard to fix them too.