A Literary Analysis Of Thank You Ma Am By Langston Hughes
Brandon Mortland
Mrs. Rude
H. English
10-1-14
Literary Analysis Everyone deserves a second chance whether or not they have and a grim or favorable past. Thank You Ma’am, written by Langston Hughes, is about a young boy named Roger who has an unfortunate life but soon messes with the wrong or maybe right lady that has a goal to straighten him out. In Thank You Ma’am Mrs. Louella Bates Washington Jones decides to give Roger, a poor kid that has resulted to street theft, a second chance to correct his wrong ways in life while teaching Roger about her past life, but Roger has to make the decision on whether to follow through with her plan. Mrs. Jones took the boy back to her current living quarters where she gave the boy a choice, which is why the door was always open and at any given moment the boy could leave and go back to his old ways, but he stayed --- he stayed till he was forced to leave. …show more content…
Jones took the opportunity of Roger trying to take her pocketbook as a life lesson for Roger. “If you think that that contact is not going to last awhile, you got another thought coming. When I get through with you, sir, you are going to remember Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones.”(2) Mrs. Jones during that excerpt was saying that she was going to teach him a lesson about stealing people’s belongings whether he liked it or not. “Now, here, take this ten dollars and buy yourself some blue suede shoes. And next time, do not make the mistake of latching onto my pocketbook nor nobody else’s — because shoes come by devilish like that will burn your feet. I got to get my rest now. But I wish you would behave yourself, son, from here on in.”(3) This line is about Mrs. Jones concluding her lesson with her giving money to Roger, which she would’ve done in the first place if he’d only asked. Mrs. Jones has taught Roger almost everything he should’ve learned from a parent, and she also states that she used to be in the same shoes as Roger at one very desperate point in her
Mrs. Rude
H. English
10-1-14
Literary Analysis Everyone deserves a second chance whether or not they have and a grim or favorable past. Thank You Ma’am, written by Langston Hughes, is about a young boy named Roger who has an unfortunate life but soon messes with the wrong or maybe right lady that has a goal to straighten him out. In Thank You Ma’am Mrs. Louella Bates Washington Jones decides to give Roger, a poor kid that has resulted to street theft, a second chance to correct his wrong ways in life while teaching Roger about her past life, but Roger has to make the decision on whether to follow through with her plan. Mrs. Jones took the boy back to her current living quarters where she gave the boy a choice, which is why the door was always open and at any given moment the boy could leave and go back to his old ways, but he stayed --- he stayed till he was forced to leave. …show more content…
Jones took the opportunity of Roger trying to take her pocketbook as a life lesson for Roger. “If you think that that contact is not going to last awhile, you got another thought coming. When I get through with you, sir, you are going to remember Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones.”(2) Mrs. Jones during that excerpt was saying that she was going to teach him a lesson about stealing people’s belongings whether he liked it or not. “Now, here, take this ten dollars and buy yourself some blue suede shoes. And next time, do not make the mistake of latching onto my pocketbook nor nobody else’s — because shoes come by devilish like that will burn your feet. I got to get my rest now. But I wish you would behave yourself, son, from here on in.”(3) This line is about Mrs. Jones concluding her lesson with her giving money to Roger, which she would’ve done in the first place if he’d only asked. Mrs. Jones has taught Roger almost everything he should’ve learned from a parent, and she also states that she used to be in the same shoes as Roger at one very desperate point in her