In the Realistic Fiction story,”Thank you, Ma'am” written by Langston Hughe’s. Imagine being homeless and wanting something and having to steal it from someone else because u want it so bad, well that's what Roger did read the story to find out what happens next. Roger shows determination and unsureness threw out the story. Roger was a homeless boy who wanted something he could not have so he tried to steal and now many people today when they can't have something. On the other hand that mean Roger had nothing he was alone and he wanted something he could not have. He couldn't get it because he was homeless.
Roger was determined to steal Mrs.Luella Bates Washington Jones Pocket book. Determined means to be making a decision and not changing it no matter the trouble u get in. That shows that in the story it said in the Narrator's words “ When a boy ran up behind her and tried to snatch her purse.” This means that
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Unsure means you're unaware of what's gonna happen. This proves that in the story it said “ I’m very sorry,lady, I’m sorry.” That states he was sorry for what he just did. It said he “sorry” that he did bad and means what he did he wants to make it up by saying sorry, it matters because he was homeless and didn't know what he was doing. If Roger wasn't unsure he wouldn't of been taken to Mrs.Jones house he would of been taken to jail for robbery.
In the Realistic Fiction Story “Thank you Ma'am” by Langston Hughes. Roger had two main feelings such as determination and unsureness. Roger was a homeless boy who wanted something he could not have so he tried to steal and now many people do that today when they can't have something they can't have they try to steal it. On the other hand that means Roger had nothing he was alone and he wanted something he could not have. He couldn't get it because he was homeless. You could be unsure of what you are
n the story “Thank You M’am”, the turning point in the story was both interesting, and unexpected. The turning point in the story occurs because Roger tried to steal Mrs. Jones purse. For instance, in the story, “Thank You M’am”, it states, “It was about eleven o'clock at night, dark, and she was walking alone, when a boy ran up behind
When Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones asked Roger, “If I turn you loose, will you run?” Roger replied with, “Yes’m.” Most people give in and accept their consequences for their action, where Roger still had the mindset of getting out of it. In Mrs. Jones home, Roger was thinking about making the run a couple of times. Mrs.Jones wasn’t giving him any punishments but offering him to clean his face and food. Roger having the mindset to run at that particular moment wouldn’t make
In the story Thank you ma’am a boy named Roger tried to steal a lady named Mrs. Jones’ pocketbook. The lady took Roger back to her house and was holding him by the ear so he wouldn’t get away. Later on she let Roger wash off his face and gave him food. The reason he wanted to steal her pocketbook was to get some blue suede shoes. The lady tells Roger that she has done bad things in the pass too. Later on the lady gives Roger some money so that he could get the shoes.
The woman, Mrs. Jones, does not let this happen, and as the story continues, gives Roger an opportunity to think about his decisions, and to make better, more honorable ones. Mrs. Jones does this by leaving the purse Roger tried to steal in plain sight, leaving her front door open for Roger to take the purse and run. Roger does not do that. Instead he waits for the meal she is preparing for him, and cleans himself up. In “Charles”, Laurie, in his journey of learning to be truthful, starts out by inventing an imaginary troublemaker named Charles.
I think her kindness changed because it showed him that stealing can get you beat up, and also put in the dirt. So I think he changed because he knows that if he want something just ask for it. Another reason is that I think he might go back to stealing again because he only tried it once. Also he could try to steal from her again a year later. So Roger won’t change his ways but change the way he steals. On page 32 it quotes that Roger said,’’ there’s nobody home at my ‘’house. So I think that’s why he steals on page 31 the boy said,” I didn’t aim
Due to the fact he refrained from hurting Henry, his character’s symbolism has a positive meaning in the beginning of the novel. Roger’s symbolism is important to follow, because later on in the novel, Roger begins to show his true colors and his evil intentions. In chapter 8 of the novel, Jack and the hunters chase down a pig with their spears. When they trap the pig, Roger takes over and inhumanely kills the sow. In the story, it states, “Roger found a lodgment for his point and began to push till he was leaning with his whole weight.
Why do people do what they do, why do the act the way they act, why do they make the decisions they make? Abraham Maslow was a humanist who created the respected Maslow's Hierarchy, the pyramid about the five branches of self need that all accumulate to self-actualization. Gathering Blue was a book released in 2000 about a girl in a dystopian society that loses it all and has to gain it back and become accustom to a new life. Kira, the main character from Gathering Blue by Lois Lowery shows comparisons to three different levels in Maslow’s Hierarchy.
Poe uses suspense through the finding black cat 2 night when the narrator was at home half drunk, the narrator was overwhelmed and began to think about Pluto, and how the black cat 2 resembled him. However, he found out that black cat 2 had some features that Pluto didn’t. Poe writes, “It was a black cat 2 – a very large one—fully as large as Pluto, and closely resembling him every respect but one’ (3). The reader feels as if that it was a supernatural event because they think it was the ghost of Pluto. Eventually Poe began to dislike the cat, and kept trying to find ways to avoid it because it started to become more like Pluto.
Roger shows how doing bad does not always work, and can get you into some serious trouble. If you do good, good will come of it, and although life may not be perfect, it will be better than it
In a short amount of time, Mrs. Jones had a long lasting impact on Roger. The old lady gave him another chance to prove himself to show that he is better than being a thief, but it is up to him to decide if he will learn from his mistake or continue to make them. Mrs. Jones had been his confidante whose guidance had helped him to realize that kindness and respect are the two important traits for human being to prosper in
The first cause of a significant change in the story Thank You Ma’am is when Roger was kicked in his blue-jeaned-sitter by Miss Jones. Also when he sat away from Miss Jones’s purse so he can be trusted. Lastly Miss Jones gave Roger the money to buy his blue Suede shoes he wanted to say thank you but he felt that thank you wasn’t enough to
In the novel, Golding is trying to assert the point that when humans are presented with no law they let go of the impulses that have been held back by authority figures. At the beginning of the novel Roger encounters a young boy playing near the water and he “...gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry...into which he dare not throw” (Golding 67). It can be inferred from this line, that Roger had not thrown the stones directly at Henry because he was accustomed by the old authority figures back at home. His sadistic impulses were kept under control. Later in the novel, Roger has no trouble killing another boy, Piggy, with an enormous boulder (Golding 209). It can be inferred that Roger’s impulses have now been
He just wanted to help but segregation was in the way. In “Thank You, M’am,” Roger makes the decision of either grabbing Mrs. Jones’ purse and run or stay to become trustworthy enough so he can be let free. He decided to stay with Mrs. Jones. Both of these stories show how a little decision can make a big difference.
The first time Roger is mentioned in the book if when Charles Darnay if on trial for allegedly being a French spy. Cly says that he began working for the prisoner, Darnay, four years ago. But initially became suspicious when, “In arranging his clothes, while travelling, he had seen similar lists to these in the prisoner’s pockets, over and over again, and that he had seen the prisoner show these identical lists
“The boy wanted to say something other than “‘Thank You, M'am”’ to Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones, but although his lips moved, he couldn’t even say that as he turned at the foot of the barren stoop and looked at the large woman in the door”(130). Langston Hughes wrote an enduring short story called “Thank You Ma’m” that starts off with an old lady strolling an urban city at about eleven o'clock at night. Mrs. Luella Bates Washington-- otherwise known as “a large old lady” (10) teaches a lesson to Roger-- a thief searching for money to buy blue suede shoes. A central idea of “Thank You, Ma’m” is that believing in someone, despite extraordinary circumstances can change someone for the better.