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“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

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.

This is shown when Roger is throwing rocks near Henry while Henry is in the water. The narrator shows how Roger is considering whether or not to throw the rocks towards Henry. “Roger did not consider his escape, but looked from the nuts to Henry and back again” (62; ch. 4). Eventually, Roger does start to throw rocks at Henry. When Henry notices it is Roger throwing them, Roger quickly runs and hides behind a tree so that Henry cannot see him (62; ch. 4). This shows the slow decline of civilization and savagery. Roger knew he should not have been throwing the rocks, but he threw the rocks anyway because he wanted to. There was really no other reason than that he enjoyed it.

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

One of the most intricate themes in the novel is the survival instincts of human nature. The savagery that will soon overtake the children is first seen in Roger as he throws rocks towards Henry. “Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss... Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw... Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.” (Golding 62) As Roger throws these stones, the foundation of his character is built. He turns out to be one of the most ruthless boys who will hurt or kill

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

One of the most clear reasons for why Ms Jones wants to teach Roger not to make the same mistakes that she made when she was his age is that when they are having dinner together, she tells him “I have done thing’s to, which I would tell you, son-neither tell god if he didn't already know” This shows that Ms Jones has done things in the past the she now regrets because she said that she has done things in the past that she was not

When one is separated from societal order, their darker thoughts will then begin to bloom and their behavior will become more aggressive. Near the beginning of the novel, Roger is described as a boy who “...kept to himself within an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy” (Golding 16). This quotes portrays Roger as a child

At the beginning of the story Roger just wants to get away from Ms. Jones then she just takes him to her house. When they got to the house she let him go and he wanted run but he didn’t. Then he tried to earn her trust by asking her if she needed someone to run to the store to get some milk. After they ate their dinner she gave him the money he needed to buy the shoes he wanted. He learned manors and to ask and not steal.

The epitome of psychotic thought. of is crazy by nature as evident when he follows Henry and starts throwing rocks at hit. Making sure not to hurt or kill henry, it gives roger a sense that hurting or killing him is exciting and only a matter of time before he realizes he can kill

This is because she made a scene in public, and angered her mom, leading to her feeling of humiliation. To wrap up, it can be concluded that both Roger and Waverly’s behaviors make them experience guilt and

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.

The main characters of both stories are similar because they both are poor. The author doesn't tell the reader that Roger is poor directly, the reader must infer it through his actions. For example we can have a hint that he is poor because of his attempt to steal Mrs. Bates purse "about Midnight'' , she notices that he does not have anyone to talk to and how dirty his face is "Ain't you got nobody home to wash your face?" His answer "No'm" (Hughes). a boy who has a positive and good family that protects and feeds him would probably not let him go

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

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