Thank You Ma Am By Hughes Summary

Family, peers, and society play a role in shaping the values and beliefs of Roger, Eli, Troy, and Gabriella in many ways. These characters learn many things about growing up. They also experience conflicts and these conflicts help shape who they are. They also help shape their identities. These characters learn a lot in the stories and movie.

In the story of “Thank You, Ma’am” by Langston Hughes, a big lady named Mrs. Jones was walking in the middle of the night, when a boy sneaked up on her. Mrs. Jones who’s purse got stolen by a boy named Roger, managed to get him in time. Mrs. Jones then takes Roger to her house.

In her article, “The Price of Parsimony”, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc talks about her life experienced in spending and saving money when she was living in C-town in the Bronx and in Massachusetts. Also, she was comparing the way of spending money between her family and her friends. In the article, LeBlanc cared deeply for her friend Lolli. She was a teenager, pregnant, homeless and already the mother of two children. She saw Lolli going crazy on shopping food from the food store. The author said “Didn't she know she was poor?” by saying that, it shows that the Adrian Nicole cared about Lolli and was surprised about how she was spending too much money on food when she could buy few items and keep or save the rest of the money in spending it on other

Also all three texts challenge the reader’s assumptions and judgements. In “Thank You, Ma’am” Mrs. Jones has to decide whether or not she will turn Roger into the police, and Roger has to decide if he will escape or not. The reader could judge these characters and say that Mrs. Jones would take Roger to jail, but the reader’s assumption is challenged because Mrs. Jones doesn’t turn him in. Also when Roger has the opportunity to escape he stays. The texts says, “The door was open. He could make a dash for it down the hall. He could run, run, run, run, run!”(Hughes 32) as you can see Roger had to make a decision about what he would do. Next, in “Doing The Right Thing” the players had to choose whether to pay or not. Most people even the manager judged the players and thought they were going to steal since they had the option. But of course they didn’t. According to the text, “‘My VP was looking at the video with me,’ Lederman remembers, ‘He saw those four boys and goes, ‘uh-oh that’s it. We’ve been robbed.’ But as the video played, they saw the oddest thing, integrity.”(Reilly 5) This shows that even the manager and her VP’s assumptions were challenged by the players. Finally, in “The Road Not Taken” the character has to make a big life decision. Some people could assume that he will take the path everyone else does and follow the group. But instead he chooses

Sometimes people can seem cruel and mean, yet underneath the cruelty kindness and compassion that can be is cruel or mean when provoked. Thank You, Ma’am by Langston Hughes is a perfect example of that, how at the beginning she seemed cruel and unusual with her punishment of the child. Then when she got the child home all she could be was nice by having him cleaned, feeding him. All she wanted to do was make him a honest person, just like a mother.

“Call the cops!” is what most people would have said if someone would have stolen their purse, but not Mrs. Jones. She was even nice to the boy, Roger, who stole her bag. She invited him into her house even after he tried to steal her stuff. I think that the theme of the story “Thank You Ma’am” by Langston Hughes is that you should be kind to everyone, even if they aren’t the nicest to you.

In the short story “Thank you, M’am” by “Langston Hughes” Mrs. Jones affected Roger after that night. She affected him by kindness by helping him even though he tried to steal something from her, Mrs.Jones didn’t run off scared or call him names or hit him, and that surprised him. Roger was surprised that he was actually treated like a human being for once.

A young man comes up and attempts to steal your purse/wallet, what would you do? Most people would try to call for help or just try to get their money back but not Mrs. Jones. In Langston Hughes’s “Thank you Ma’am” Mrs. Jones decides to try to teach him a lesson. Not by beating the snot out of him but by taking him to her home, cleaning him up, giving him something to eat, and giving him the money that he wanted for new shoes. Sometimes a little dose of kindness can go a long way, Roger knows what he did is wrong and that sometimes you need to ask and you shall receive. Mrs. Jones changed Roger by teaching him that you need to be nice to people and by being nice you will be rewarded.

In the story ¨Thank you ma'am¨, Mrs Jones invites the boy into her home for good reasons. She told him to come in so she can clean him up and have him looking presentable. She knew that nobody was at home helping him so she figured that she should. She knew that they the boy really did notwant to steal her purses that why she instilled so much fear in the boy,and she knew all of this because she use to snatch purses when she was younger. She drags the boy all the way home with her just so she can wash his face and feed him. Once the boy has done everything right she ask him why he wanted to take her purse in the first place. The boy then tells her that he wanted a pair of shoes. She gives the boy ten dollars to go buy the shoes he wanted.

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

In the short story “Thank you ma’am” by Langston Hughes, Mrs. Jones Was walking home and was attacked. The attacker was a child named Roger. Mrs. Jones took Roger to her home. Once home, she made Roger go to the bathroom to wash his face off from all the dirt and find out why he attacked Mrs. Jones. Mrs. Jones gave him ten dollars for blue suede shoes and way on his way out. After attacking Mrs. Jones, Roger was able to learn a lesson from Mrs. Jones which is not to steal.

You and your grandma are taking a walk on some paths and are enjoying every bit of it. You hear some footsteps behind you and you expect it to be just somebody running and they are going to pass you. You’re looking the other way and don’t notice that your grandma had fallen. You finally look the other way and your grandma is gone. You look behind you cannot find anyone in sight. Later that month you find out that it was the man that was “running” behind you that day. In Thank you ma’am, the author, Langston Hughes, a short story about respect, shows that Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones experienced kind of the same thing with Roger. Roger wanted to steal some suede shoes from Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones but in the end, she gave him

Everyone should try to forgive, no matter what… The story that I read is Thank You, Ma’am (by Langston Hughes). In the beginning of this story, there is a little boy who attempts to snatch a ladies purse. When he failed, the woman got angry with him but instead of turning him into the police, she brought the little boy home and had him clean himself and fed him. This event occured on page 1, “Um-hum! And your face is dirty. I got a great mind to wash your face for you. Ain’t you got nobody home to tell you to wash your face?” After the woman discussed this with the boy for a little bit, she brought him home with her and talked to him about the choices he made in attempt to teach him a lesson. After the

In return, Mrs. Jones explains to Roger that life is not always fair because she existed in Roger’s spot too, once, and knows how it feels since she still is monetarily fragile. Roger feels irrational and realizes that Mrs. Jones is correct (357 – 359). Above all, the actions of Mrs. Jones Hughes wrote about, which was “When they were finished eating, she got up, and said ‘Now here, take, this ten dollars and buy yourself some blue suede shoes,’” (359), showed how empathetic she acted towards the boy. The boy knew at that moment Mrs. Jones had understood his situation as he could not even compel himself to say “Thank You M’am,” a compensating message for Mrs. Jones’s munificent favor. Being concerned for Roger made him understand her loving, motherly character. Mrs. Jones’s vicarious behavior changed Roger from the boy on the streets to a well-disciplined

“There will always be people who will hurt you. Still, trust them but be careful.”-Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This can be hard to our civilization today. Society judges people based on what they did, and their actions, and not trust who they really are. Many people in this world do bad and are really good, they just express their emotions through anger and hate. In the short story, Thank You M’am, by Langston Hughes, the protagonist Roger, tries to steal Mrs. Jones pocketbook, and instead of taking him to jail, she saw that he was hungry and dirty so she brought him into her house. She made him clean his face, and then she fed him and gave him $10, when he had to go. The theme of the story is always trust what is within others, and not based off their characteristics.