After a long and tiresome day, one may feel like he or she is going to collapse and fall down, but somewhere around that person, there's always a friend there to encourage that person to keep on going. Similarly, in Langston Hughes's poem, "Mother to Son", one can see a passionate aspect of a loving relationship of family going through difficulty in hope for a better life. Likewise, in Arthur Miller's book, "Death of a …showed first 75 words of 914 total…

…showed last 75 words of 914 total…Willy has wished to kill himself but could not. The exhaustion and loneliness in the characters are so deepened that sometimes the characters get lost into what they're doing. Throughout the poem "Mother to Son" and the book "Death of a Salesman", they have taught a valuable life lesson about never giving up. Even when life is getting more difficult and one thinks they cannot go on, they need to keep climbing and keep going.