Thank You Ma Am Langston Hughes Analysis

“I wanted to say thank but, deep inside me wanted to say something more than thank you.” this proves roger wanting to change who he is because miss jones has changed him to be a better person. The story An American Childhood states turning points however in the text it states “I realized my parents didn’t care about what I did means im on my own.” The cause of this turning point is her parents didn’t care about what she did and it caused her to feel

     Because of Judy Jones’ infidelity, even though he knew it was going to happen, he decides to try to forget about her. As much as he tries, it is impossible for him to forget about Miss Judy Jones. He starts dating Irene Scheerer, her father knew Dexter very well and thought of him as a “Now there’s a boy” type of man. While with Irene, he agreed on that he could not have Judy Jones. He caused himself pain for no reason, he had been hurting himself and Irene by thinking of Miss Jones. Instead of him thinking about Judy Jones as being “priggish” he soon

In the story “Thank You ma’am” both roger and Mrs. Jones both experience a feeling. With roger he gets shown what

The use of character foil in “Thank You Ma’am” by Langston Hughes reveals how Mrs. Jones shows herself through Roger. Mrs. Jones and Rogers contrast with one another ends up allowing Roger to bring out the best in himself. The story begins with Mrs. Jones not punishing Roger for trying to steal her purse but acting compassionate and helpful to Roger. The large woman, Mrs. Jones brings Roger back to her home and lets him wash his face and he asks ¨You gonna take me to jail?” asked the boy, bending over the sink. ¨Not with that face, I would not take you nowhere,¨ said the woman.¨ (pg.2) Mrs. Jones shows the quality of being kind to the boy who tried to snatch her pocketbook, which reveals that she is a good person. Mrs. Jones showed her personality

In the short story, Thank You Ma’am, by Longston Hughs a powerful message is communicated. The story begins on an empty street in New York City where Roger attempts to steal Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jone’s purse. Roger has to decide between running away or going with her. At her home she lets him wash his face, eat dinner and she gives him $10s to buy blue suede shoes. All this generosity leaves Roger speechless at the end of the story. He could barely say “Thank you ma’am”. And then Roger never saw her again. Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones has every reason to reprisal against Roger, but doesn’t. As readers we are left with the question, why does Mr. Luella Bates Washington Jones take Roger home? I believe that Mrs. Luella took roger home to teach him how to be selfless not selfish. An important lesson we seem to assume Roger lacks.

Smithers knows something that Jones does not, that the natives uncovered his scam and plans to kill him tonight. As is his nature, Smithers tries to persuade Jones to tell him where is money is located and his plan so that he may get to it first. However, due to his opposite trait and lack of finesse, Jones immediately identifies what Smithers is trying to do. This is important because Jones’s key flaw comes out at this moment, his pride and greed. Jones tells Smithers his plan, where his money is hidden, where his extra provisions are hidden in the woods, and also that he previously killed a man to get his own way.

Mrs. Jones kindness to Roger changes him by knowing he can trust people. Mrs. Jones showed kindness by taking him in to get cleaned up. On page 32-33 it quoted “you go to the sink and wash your face“. And she also feat him. She wanted Roger to trust her and he also wanted her to trust him. And another way she wanted to gain his trust is when she left her purse on the couch to see if he was going to take it. On page 32 she quoted “run that comb through your hair so you will look presentable”. That is another way she wanted to show kindness so he won’t look bad. And at the end Mrs. Jones gave Roger $10 to buy the blue suede shoes he wanted. I think he changed by gaining Mrs. Jones trust and gained respect for her. So now he probably won’t steal

Mrs. Jones leaves Roger with her pocket book because she trusts him not to run away with it. Mrs. Jones believed that she could trust Roger because she feels like he wouldn't betray her after they opened up to each other. I think Mrs. Jones trusts Roger not just because she gave him a chance to steal her pocketbook but also because she gave him a small hint of what she did in the past. Trust is the reason for Mrs. Jones's actions of leaving the pocketbook close to Roger and give him an easy chance to just take the money and run, but he didn't because Mrs. Jones taught him a lesson and opened up to him. For example when Mrs. Jones said, "You thought I was going to say, but I didn't snatch people's pocketbooks.

According to the story Mrs. Jones impact on Roger will most likely make him change a lot because in the story it states that he doesn’t have anyone at home to take care of him. But since Jones had the kindness in her heart to take him in and feed him then make him clean himself up she played a huge role when she did that because his parents aren’t around to make him do things like that. After that she had gave him the money to buy the shoes he wanted so now all these beautiful old ladies don’t have to worry about getting there purse snatch because Roger became a gentleman and now knows he have to ask for things instead of taking. Basically Mrs. Jones raised him to become a man in less than 3 hours in the story it stated that Mrs. Jones told

In the story of Thank You Ma’am how Mrs. Jones makes Roger feel good. Mrs. Jones acted

Everyone has difficulties and tragedies in life, some more than others. Though when people show compassion, it makes your spirits rise and make your challenges more bearable. In the short story, “Thank you, Ma’am” by Langston Hughes, Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones, a woman whose purse has been an attempted target by a boy, shows the theme of compassion with an overflowing amount of it. The boy, Roger, learns throughout the story that compassion is very important, and his true personality is revealed by some woman he doesn't even know.

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.

I think Mrs.Jones handles the situation the way she did because she wants to teach Rodger a lesson. The lesson to this story is simple, you don’t have to steal for what you want. She wanted to teach Rodger that no matter what stealing isn’t the answer. In the story she told him to just ask for what he wants instead of trying to steal. She is trying to accomplish the goal of teaching him that doing wrong is never right. Stealing is wrong and even thought his parents neglect him, stealing for a new pair of shoes is never right. I think this experience will affect Rodger because now he understands that what he did is wrong and he is not likely to do it again. Even though he tried to steal from her she still feed him and gave him money for his

Roger changed because of how he was thinking about running to being so trustful and good. On page 32 it says he could make a dash for it down the hall because, the door was open. Then, Roger and Mrs. Jones were trying to win each other trust. On page 32it say that he did not trust the woman not to trust him. And he did not want to be mistrusted now. On page 32-33 it says that “Do you need somebody to go to the store,” asked the boy, “Maybe to get some milk or

A Special Kind of Hero According to Albert Schweitzer, “The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.” In the story “Thank You, Ma’am”, Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones does exactly that. She puts others before herself by going out of her way to help a troubled boy. She only makes some minor actions, but what she does do will definitely impact the boy.