Summary Of Growing Up By Roger

To begin with, Roger was an insecure, juvenile, with the intentions of robbing a husky, senior citizen of her colossal hand bag. However, when the youngster set off for his plan, the weight of the purse combined with the speed of the boy and he failed his robbery. But he still got something after words, empathy, kindness, and most of all trust. The elderly female Ms. Luella Washington Bates Jones fed the young thug, and washed him up, as seen on page 32. By showing roger these acts of kindness, Ms. Jones chipped away the layers of stupidity of roger and got to his true center, which was trust. Near the end of the story, Roger asks the woman if he could go to the store to get her some groceries, this proved that he had something good in him.