What Does The Right Thing To Steal By Luella Bates Mean To Me

Gabrielle Roy's "The Move", highlights a young girl's longing for adventure and travel toward unknown destinations. However, as she realizes what is truly present outside her imagination, a surge of disillusionment comes over her. The child's description of horses, spearheading an adventure, but then falling ill and tired, illustrates the girl's realization that excitement and joy in the world cannot amount to her vivid imagination. In the short story, the image of weary moving horses parallels the child's sudden grasp of reality, illustrating the naive character's loss of innocence.

As a child, Jeannette’s sense of wonder and curiosity in the world undermine the need for money. During her young adult years, a new wave of insecurity associated with her poor past infects her. Finally, as an experienced and aged woman, Jeannette finds joy and nostalgia in cherishing her poverty- stricken past. It must be noted that no story goes without a couple twists and turns, especiallydefinitely not Jeannette Walls’. The fact of the matter is that growing up in poverty effectively craftsed, and transformsed her into the person she becomeshas become. While statistics and research show that living in poverty can be detrimental to a child’s self-esteem, Jeannette Walls encourages children living in poverty to have ownership over their temporary situation, and never to feel inferior because of past or present socio-economic

Since the story uses a certain object, the Jacket, as the meaning of several issues, it primarily focuses on the narrator's poverty-stricken family. First of all, an example of the poverty is demonstrated when the narrator complains that the jacket "was so ugly and big that I knew I'd have to wear it a long time"(paragraph 3). It is clear that his lack of money was a problem in which he

The main theme of the story is to not lie to and deceive people (especially multiple times). There may be a time in which you are struggling and will need help but because you are dishonest people will not want to help you. The people that you tricked and fooled will think you're just wasting their time and effort.

My first evidence for this claim is the quote, “Well you didn’t have to snatch my pocket book to get some suede shoes,” said Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones. “You could have asked me.” (page 5, lines 96-98) Which proves that the reason why Mrs. Luella takes Roger home is because she wants to teach him how to be selfless not selfish. There are several keywords that prove my claim such as

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Imagine: A young boy scavenges for food to provide for his impoverished family which was composed of his ill mother and starving siblings or a homeless, single mom desperatley seeking for shelter. These synopses from "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt and "The Street" by Ann Petry share a common theme: perseverance through hardships. In "Angela's Ashes," a memoir by Frank McCourt, he stells about the harships he endured through his childhood, such as, struggling to assist his family in the midst of poverty by stealing food to provide for them. Futhermore, in "The Street," a novel by Ann Petry, tells the story of young Lutie Johnson, a homeless single mom who is seeking shelter for herself and her children. In these two excerpts, the authors use the characters, settings, and events to develop the theme, which I've identified as perseverance through hardships.

The school has a community chest where the parents donate money for the charity. Richard also want to donate money to that charity with the money that he earned from mending the shoes and selling papers, but he wanted that money to be more then what Helene’s dad was going to give to the chest. It was that bad day where the teacher has to collect money for the charity by calling out students name, but she did not call Richard’s name from the list and tried to shut him up by telling him in front of the whole class that they were “collecting this money for you and your kind” (Gregory) and then everyone get to know that Richard doesn’t have a father. It got fear and shame to him and he saw Helene crying for him so he felt much shame and began to cry as well. Not only he did not return to school after, but he also began to see shame everywhere from the welfare jacket he wear and rotten fruit he get from the local grocery store and therefore this event took him about more than twenty years to get over the shame he experienced that day in front of

However, when their mother came through the door and told them of a hungry family, the 4 women did not hesitate in giving away their luscious breakfast to those in need. The children delivered the food to the family and “a poor, bare, miserable room it was, with broken windows, no fire, ragged bedclothes, a sick mother, wailing baby, and a group of pale, hungry children cuddled under one old quilt, trying to keep warm”(24). The sisters realize what a harsh environment they live in, and because the setting is so pessimistic, they try to share the little wealth they have so that everyone may live long full lives. The setting in which they live, houses many people who have even less wealth than their own family. However, because of this dreadful place, they try and make sure that their community, or their family, is taken care of, even at the expense of their luxuries.

At the beginning of “Thank you, Ma’am,” we see how just how compassionate Mrs. Jones really is. The moment she meets Roger, she tells the boy to wash his face. “Least I can do is wash your face. Are you hungry?” This might not seem like a very compassionate thing to do at first, however, she doesn’t even know the boy, yet she has enough compassion to make sure he is clean. Then, she takes the boy inside of her house! In addition, the boy, Roger asks, “You going to take me to jail?” But Mrs. Jones doesn’t. Maybe she sees that Roger is really a good boy inside, so she shows compassion to bring out his true kindness. This makes me think that he was probably trying to steal because he had to. And when Mrs. Jones asked him if he had anyone at home, he said, “No’m.” Mrs.

To begin with on page 32 it says that she trusted him with her purse. Roger sees that she trusts, and how forgiving she is. And on page 32 Roger says “ I only wanted some blue suede shoes.” The reason he tried to snatch her purse was for some shoes, which shows stealing, and so she tries to fix him and succeeds. At the table she talks to him about her job, and sees that she is actually kind. So to him he begins to think, and then at the end when she hands him some money, he sees its better to just ask. At the end we come to find out he has goodness in him when he says thank you and walks away. Plus not to forget she is really stern with him. So lastly, he thinks about what all she has said, and starts to have a little bit of manners which

Mrs. Jones put a lot on Rogers’s life when she took him in after he tried to steal her purse. When Mrs. Jones showed kindness to roger but deep inside it changed him because when she got him he was rude. He was rude because he would to her like when Mrs. Jones said “why did you try to steal my purse?” He lied and said “I didn’t aim to.” And he did which made it a lie. When she finally took him home and cleaned him up he felt guilty and became more polite. After they got done eating and she gave him money I think she changed him deep inside because he didn’t know manners until that night because when she told him goodnight and went to bed he was too embarrassed to say anything until he finally turned around and said “thank you , ma’am.” That’s

Mrs. Jones didn’t have to do any of this. She could’ve just turned Roger in to the police, or left him there alone not tending to him, but instead she decides to do the right thing and feed him dinner. Another reason that shows how big hearted Mrs. Jones is is that she gives Roger the $10 he wanted to buy himself blue suede shoes. Mrs. Jones most likely does this to make him feel better about the wrong he does and also help convince him to stop stealing. She also can infer that Roger is most likely poor, since he is desperate to steal money, and wants to be generous so he can get himself some new shoes.

In the story “Thank You M’am” by Langston Hughes, Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones, treats Roger like his son and helps him stop stealing others stuff. In paragraph 44 it says, “When they were finished eating Mrs. Jones gave him ten dollars so he could buy his shoes that he wanted. This supports the claim because in paragraph 44it says that Mrs. Jones gave him ten dollars for the shoes he wanted, and told him to not make the same mistake of stealing her pocketbook or someone else's. Another piece of evidence from paragraph 25 is the tall woman told Roger to go to the sink and wash his dirty face. This supports the claim because in paragraph 25, the woman lets him wash his face and then asks if he wants to eat. So that's how Mrs. Luella Bates

After putting a down payment on the new house, Mama gives the rest of the money to Walter and ultimately gives him the role of the man of the house and to step up to take care of the family. However, Walter goes against Mama and decides to follow through with his dream and invest the money in his potential liquor store business. Although, his plans fall through when Willy, one of the “investors” runs off with the money. Not only Walter, but his whole family lose the chance of a better life and are forced to start back up again. They no longer have the money to put Beneatha through medical school or the money to support themselves. Despite the backfall, the younger family keeps trying. Even though the road ahead may be difficult, the Younger family has each other to support one another and that’s all they need. By picking themselves back up after they have lost everything, it shows that they aren’t ones known to give up at the sight of defeat. They kept trying after they had lost everything because having nothing left to lose means that things can only get better from here on out.