Sometimes life is not always happy. Sometimes there are many obstacles in your way that will bring you down when you are trying to achieve fulfillment. Even though these obstacles can bring you down people find ways that they can get over them. The poems "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes and "To James" by Frank Home have specific literary elements that can tell a person how to achieve happiness and fulfillment in life.

The poem "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes uses literary elements and techniques for ways to achieve happiness and fulfillment in life. One literary element that Hughes uses to tell people how to achieve happiness is theme. When she says "so boy, don't you set down on the steps 'cause you finds it kinder hard" it shows that she doesn't want people to give up when they are trying to reach their dreams. Sometimes...