{"id":14312,"date":"2023-04-14T22:57:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T22:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/write-a-comparative-essay-with-the-two-texts-still-i-rise-by-maya-angelou-and-mother-to-son-by-langston-hughes\/"},"modified":"2023-04-14T22:57:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T22:57:54","slug":"write-a-comparative-essay-with-the-two-texts-still-i-rise-by-maya-angelou-and-mother-to-son-by-langston-hughes","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/write-a-comparative-essay-with-the-two-texts-still-i-rise-by-maya-angelou-and-mother-to-son-by-langston-hughes\/","title":{"rendered":"Write a comparative essay with the two texts “Still I Rise” By Maya Angelou and “Mother to Son” By Langston Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Choose any TWO texts studied, linked or referenced on the course and write an essay of 1000-1250 words (4-5 double-spaced pages) on the following topic: <\/p>\n

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\u2022\tExperiencing racism or writing about the effects of racism on identity, personality, feelings, relationships<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
-Find Below the two texts that is to be compared<\/div>\n
Text 1:<\/div>\n
Mother to Son<\/div>\n
BY LANGSTON HUGHES<\/div>\n
Well, son, I\u2019ll tell you:<\/div>\n
Life for me ain\u2019t been no crystal stair.<\/div>\n
It\u2019s had tacks in it,<\/div>\n
And splinters,<\/div>\n
And boards torn up,<\/div>\n
And places with no carpet on the floor\u2014<\/div>\n
Bare.<\/div>\n
But all the time<\/div>\n
I\u2019se been a-climbin\u2019 on,<\/div>\n
And reachin\u2019 landin\u2019s,<\/div>\n
And turnin\u2019 corners,<\/div>\n
And sometimes goin\u2019 in the dark<\/div>\n
Where there ain\u2019t been no light.<\/div>\n
So boy, don\u2019t you turn back.<\/div>\n
Don\u2019t you set down on the steps<\/div>\n
\u2019Cause you finds it\u2019s kinder hard.<\/div>\n
Don\u2019t you fall now\u2014<\/div>\n
For I\u2019se still goin\u2019, honey,<\/div>\n
I\u2019se still climbin\u2019,<\/div>\n
And life for me ain\u2019t been no crystal stair.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Text 2:<\/div>\n
Still I Rise<\/div>\n
BY MAYA ANGELOU<\/div>\n
You may write me down in history<\/div>\n
With your bitter, twisted lies,<\/div>\n
You may trod me in the very dirt<\/div>\n
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Does my sassiness upset you?<\/div>\n
Why are you beset with gloom?<\/div>\n
\u2019Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells<\/div>\n
Pumping in my living room.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Just like moons and like suns,<\/div>\n
With the certainty of tides,<\/div>\n
Just like hopes springing high,<\/div>\n
Still I’ll rise.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Did you want to see me broken?<\/div>\n
Bowed head and lowered eyes?<\/div>\n
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,<\/div>\n
Weakened by my soulful cries?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Does my haughtiness offend you?<\/div>\n
Don’t you take it awful hard<\/div>\n
\u2019Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines<\/div>\n
Diggin\u2019 in my own backyard.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
You may shoot me with your words,<\/div>\n
You may cut me with your eyes,<\/div>\n
You may kill me with your hatefulness,<\/div>\n
But still, like air, I\u2019ll rise.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Does my sexiness upset you?<\/div>\n
Does it come as a surprise<\/div>\n
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds<\/div>\n
At the meeting of my thighs?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Out of the huts of history\u2019s shame<\/div>\n
I rise<\/div>\n
Up from a past that\u2019s rooted in pain<\/div>\n
I rise<\/div>\n
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,<\/div>\n
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear<\/div>\n
I rise<\/div>\n
Into a daybreak that\u2019s wondrously clear<\/div>\n
I rise<\/div>\n
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,<\/div>\n
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.<\/div>\n
I rise<\/div>\n
I rise<\/div>\n
I rise.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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