The sun rises and the day begins, Roger gets out of the bed and goes to the bathroom to take a hot and relaxing shower. Haphazardly, he realizes it’s Saturday morning of the last week of the month. He gets in his shiny car and starts driving with glee to the street where he first met Mrs. Jones. 20 years ago, since she forgave him, he has been thinking of a small but important life lesson which she taught him in her tiny room. And 5 years ago, he decided to find Mrs. Jones to show her how much he had grown up physically and mentally since he stopped stealing things. Continuing with his day after a while of thinking, he gets out of his car and starts walking on the hot and smelly street peacefully observing every single person carefully. …show more content…
What if I hadn’t seen those blue shoes? Standing still in front of the store’s little door he keeps thinking and realizing, even more, how grateful and generous Mrs. Jones had been. “Excuse me,” an old woman says. “You are blocking the door!” “Sorry,” he says immediately and suddenly, he recognizes the woman’s loud but nice voice. Roger turns around to see her face. In the next moment, he is grabbing the woman’s arm tightly who seems to be astoundeD. He finally found Mrs. Jones. “Thank you M’am,” he says with tears in his eyes. “I don’t think you remember me, but you changed my life entirely” “Who are you? What are you thanking me for?” asks the woman, looking up at the man curiously. “As a young man, I admired things that I could not have. A pair of blue suede shoes was one of the things that I wanted. So I tried to steal an enormous purse of a stranger to get money to buy the shoes…. However, that stranger became a very significant person to me since she showed me such kindness and generosity. ” “Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones, I finally ran into you again,” cries the man, who is grabbing the woman’s arm even more tightly with glee in his
“Thank the good lord,” Estelle Louise says as she wiped a tear from her cheek.
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, “Thank you M’am,’ a young man named Rodger goes from petty thief, to a reasonably polite, behaved boy. Rodger, a muddled boy, stricken by poverty, tries to steal a purse from none other than Mrs. Jones, a larger woman who works at a salon nearby. Rodger is scolded by Mrs. Jones, which is later reversed to be seen as guidance by the audience, when Rodger seems to change. After a shared dinner, and Mrs. Jones showing Rodger signs of trust, Mrs. Jones gives Rodger money to buy a pair of, “Blue Suede Shoes,” which was the original reason why Rodger was even tempted to steal. Rodger is quiet, but a piece of his personality shines through when he murmurs a small, “Thank you m’am,” as Mrs. Jones shuts her door. Why did Rodger wait for her door
Many years have gone by with much contemplation about what I wanted to do when I grew up. Due to my age, that vision has looked like many different professions. I started out with dreams of having an Army career starting at the age of 18, to have that quickly change when my new husband and I found we were expecting our first child. When our commanding officer found out, he spoke to us and explained that both of us could be sent to war at the same time. Rather than deciding which family member to give custody of our child to in that situation, I decided to depart from the Army and start my new journey as “mom”.
It may be hard to believe, but I wasn’t always this bald and beautiful. I, like many other young men, was a victim of a vicious receding hairline. Me being so young, I fell victim to a plethora of cruel jokes, I mean let’s face it, not many sixteen-year-old girls swoon over a young boy with the hairline like their fathers. I was constantly ragged on by family, friends, strangers, and anyone else with a working pair of eyes. Thus, I grew to be very self-conscious about my hairline, or lack thereof. Then that all changed one day with a mirror and a razor. Looking back at it, I can’t help but laugh and smile when I think about the days when all I wanted was a full head of hair.
Dynamic characters in literature go through some kind of change or growth during the story. They respond to events and experience a change in their personality or their view of life. Mathilde from the story “The Necklace,” by Guy de Maupassant and Roger from “Thank You, M’am,” by Langston Hughes are both dynamic characters. The changes experienced by these characters helped to develop the central ideas of the stories.
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