Hughes transforms the act of *remembering* from individual recollection into collective resistance. He demonstrates how shared narratives transcend the limitations of mortal existence to create change and hope for the future. The mother's imperative "Remember my sweat, my pain, my despair. / Remember my years, heavy with sorrow" is followed by the command to "make of those years a torch for tomorrow," while she later insists "Remember the whip and the slaver's track" as fuel for future liberation. Hughes recognizes that individual lives are finite and vulnerable to erasure. However, through the deliberate construction and transmission of narrative, personal experience achieves immortality and amplified impact. Once confined to her singular existence, the mother's memories become communal when she teels her children to "remember", as a result transforming persona ltrauma to collective strength. Hughes demonstrates that while oppressors may destroy individual bodies, they cannot eliminate stories that have been woven into collective consciousness. Through this emphasis on remembering as collective action, Hughes reveals how literature itself serves as a medium for transcending individual mortality -- when shared narratives become the foundation upon which entire communities build their identity across generations.